Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-19
SMUGGLING AND SMUGGLERS.
Canadian Detectives Tell of Their
Clever Tricks.
from the Montreal Gazette

From the Montreal Gazette.
Messrs. Wolff and Crosse, special customs
agents, were sitting in their Office with one or
two friends yesterday afternoon. The CONVEX
sation was about smugglers and smuggling.
and Mr.. Wolff was relating how he had cap
tured smuggler in New Brunswick. II was
with another officer" he said, in a district
where smuggling was said to be very common
We stopped one night at house on the road
side and were so well treated that in the morn
ing we stopped near the door to decide what
we could do to show our gratitude. While we
were talking the man came out and said
Don't be too hard on a poor fellow We
caught on at once and said to him. Well, YOU
have been very kind to us. Bring out the
stuff and we will be easy on you as we
can. The man brought out the smuggled
goods and we seized them"
There was jeweler in this city caught in
something the same way" said Mr.. Grose. Il
was informed that he had bought twelve gold
rings which he knew to have been smuggled
got description of them, and going into the
jewelers. office, told him had come for some
goods he had struggled, and he had better
bring them INTO the office or | would have to
go and look for them. He went out and came
back with an armful of trays of rings l asked
him what that was and he said that was all ne
had struggled. looked through them all, but
could not find the rings | was looking for. so I
You had better bring them all in at once or [
will go out and look for them myself He
went out again and brought in another armful
of trays, saying he would take his oath that
that was all he had smuggled. l asked him for
the names OF all the parties implicated and he
said there was no one but his brother sent
for an officer to watch the rings and went nv
self to the mans brother, in whose store I
seized $1,000 worth of jewelry. The seizure
In the first store amounted to about $4,000"
n1 lava trInE ,A1n.yn
on a merchant in this city," said another gem
tleman. He arranged with another man to
| smuggle in. five barrels of kerosene, and thev
were brought into the city in the dead of night
and stored in his cellar. He paid the money
and the smuggier went away. Next morning
! the gentleman found that the barrels were
filled with pure water"
II had quite an exciting experience one
winter night out in the townships" said Mr.
Grose. Il was with Colonel Rodgers, the col
lector, and he told me the road we were driv-
ing on was the worst for smuggling in Canada
He was telling me of all kinds Of smuggling
stories that made the hair rise on my head.
| and just then we heard the tinkle of sleigh
bells. i will bet you that is a
smuggler,' he said. All right said 1; 4 guess
we are the very men he ought to meet. We
drew up and presently we saw an express sleigh
coming along. the load being covered up with
buffaloes. We, called on the man to stop. but
the only answer he made was to lay the whip
to his horses, and they tore off at gallop. We
turned around and set off at full speed after
him, the colonel firing his revolver in the air
to brighten the smuggler, but in vain. We had
fast horse and were rapidly overtaking him
| when he turned into lane and drew up behind
barn. The colonel leaped out and seized
the smuggler by the collar, saying: You -
scoundrel, why didn't you stop? 1 drew off
the buffalo robes to find the struggled goods,
but only found a lot of mail bags. The sup
posed smuggler was mail carrier"