The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-23
SMUGGLING LIQUOR INTO MAINE

SMUGGLING LIQUOR INTO MAINE.
About the hardest subject, however the
government officials ever had to deal with in
this eastern section was an Indian smuggler
of the Passamaquoddy tribe. Lewey was his
name, and he was the son of a former chief
of the tribe. He was an uncommonly power
full man, brave as a lion, and cunning as
fox He had never been caught in SNUG
Cling, and had over and over again taken
big oath that white man should never catch
him, as he would shoot him. year or SO
ago. while Lewey was crossing Lewey's lake,
as it is called, an officer laid in wait for him
near Princeton, where he was to land. AS
Lewey approached the shore, the officer
emerged from his place of concealment, and,
pointing revolver at the Indian, commanded
him to surrender. But Lewey was too quick
for the officer Instantly dropping his pad
die, he seized shotgun he had by his side
and covered the officer SO triumphantly that
he was forced to retreat, and thus Lewey es-
capped. Shortly after this another officer put
in an appearance at Princeton, a cool, reso-
lutte, self-possessed man, who had determined
upon taking Lewey into custody Word was
sent to the Indian that a New York gentleman
was stopping at the hotel who proposed en-
ioying himself for few days in fishing, and
would like to employ Lewey as guide. The
bait took, and Lewey, DESTROYS of making
few dollars and not suspecting any wrong to
himself, Immediately went to the hotel, where
he was shown the officers room, and, when
he stepped inside, the officer, with the aid OF
a five shooter, and before the Indian could
realize his situation, had Lewey's muscular
wrists ornamented with a heavy pair of
bracelets, and he was prisoner
That evening the officer, while outside the
hot al no pf where
Lewey was confined raised, and, at the next
moment, Lewey had his head out and was
calculating the distance to the ground with
view of jumping out But the peril of jump
ing from two-story window with pair of
handouts on was risk too great for even SO
desperate man as Lewey. and he gave it up,
and closed the window. The officer still on
the watch, next saw the kerosene light in
Lewey's room grow dim, and then suddenly
flash and brighten then it would become al
most invisible again, and then it would flash
and shine again. This proceeding was some
thing that the officer could not understand,
and SO he started for his room, where the
mystery was explained. 1t appears that
Lewey had been heating his handouts in the
blaze of the kerosene light, and then trying
to wrench and twist them asunder. 1t was
martyrdom for liberty that but few would
have attempted for Lewey's wrists were badly
burned and lacerated by his efforts to part
his manacles. On account of his great mus
cular strength it is highly probable that he
would have parted the irons had not the Off
Ger gone to his room. Lewey was terribly
wroth at being discovered, but he made the
best of it, and, without giving the officer any
further trouble, he was taken to Portland,
where, after an examination, he was fined
and imprisoned. Since his release he has
never, SO far as is known, attempted to
smuggle. He had been cowed so completely
that he was terrified
From Campobello liquors are struggled into
Eastport, Lubec, and along shore as far as
Portland. Small coasting vessels and boats
are employed by smugglers Rags, wool, cop
per and brass are struggled in considerable
quantities on the coast Thousands of dol
lars worth of these articles are struggled
yearly. They are first shipped to Grand Me-
nan and Campobello, where they remain
stored for months. They are then quietly
reshipped in vessels to Boston or some other
port. A large number of the fishermen en-
gagged in the herring fishery are given to
smuggling. They conceal their packages of
liquor in their cargoes of fish, and then run
into either Machais, Jonesport, Millbridge or
Sullivan and get rid of them. The field of
smuggling operations includes Bar Harbor,
Southwest Harbor, Bars Harbor and Seal
Cove, at Mt. Desert Island. Sometimes coast
smugglers will run into Castine, Vinalhaven
and Rockland, and, perhaps, 60 up the
Penobscot river, while occasionally they sail
direct to Portland. Smuggling into Portland,
however, is mostly done by passengers on the
St. John steamers or on the lines of steamers
running from Liverpool in the winter time.
Occasionally the customs officers catch opium
smugglers. Extensively as smuggling is
known to be carried on in Maine, from the
best information that can be obtained, it is
not known that any party engaged in the
business has acquired wealth out of it. In
times past money has been made, but now
the risks are SO great that it hardly pays
Boston Herald
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raves. The style, capitalizing, ETC., are his
eff prohibition passes, take down your shot
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