The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-04-06
CANADIAN sMUcoLERs.
How Clever Customs Detectives Capture
Cont .aband Articles.


How Clever Customs Detectives Capture
Cont saband Articles.
Messrs Wolf and Crosse, special Gus
toms agents. were sitting in their Office
with one or two friends. The CONVEX
sation was about smugglers and SNUG
Cling, and Mr.. Wolff was relating how
he had captured smuggler in New
Brunswick. II was with another Off
cer," he said, Tin a district where
smuggling was said to be very COM
mon. We stopped one night at house
on the roadside, and were so well treat
ed that in the morning 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
1--WE caught on at once and said to
him. Well, you have been very kind
to us. Bring ont the stuff and we will
be as easy on you rs we can The man
brought out the smL.ggled goods and
we seized them"
There was jeweier il, this city l
caught In something the SAL way
said Mr.. Crosse. II was informs that
he had bought twelve gold rings WI 'cn
he knew to have been Struggled. / go>s
description Of them. and going into
the jewelers. Office told hin 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 armfull of trays of rings. I
asked him what that was, and he said
that was all he had smuggled. I
looked through them all, but could not
find the rings was looking for, so
said to him. This is not the whole of
them. 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 armfull OF
trays saying he would take his oath
that was all he had smuggled. asked
him for the names of all the parties
impl Gated and he said there was no
one but his brother. sent for an
officer to watch the rings and went my
self to the mans brother. in whose
store seized $1,000 worth of jewelry.
The seizure in the first store amounted
to about $1,000"
"a clever trick was played little
while ago on merchant in this city,"
said another gentleman. HE ar
ranged with another man to smuggle
in five barrels of kerosene. and they
were brought into the city in the dead
of night and stored in his cellar. He
paid the money and the smuggler went
away. Next morning the gentleman
found that the barrels were filed with
pure water"
81 had quite an exciting experience
one winter night out in the townships"
said Mr.. Grose. II was with Colonel |
Rodgers, the collector, and he told me |
the road he was driving on was the
worst for smuggling in Canada He |
was telling me all kinds of smuggling |
stories that made the hair rise on my |
head, and just then we heard the tinkle |
of sleigh bells II will bet you that is a |
smuggler." he said. "All right" said
l; II guess We are the very men be |
ought to meet" We drew up, and |
presently we saw an express sleigh
coming along, the load being covered |
with buffalo robes. We called on the |
man to stop. but the only answer he
made was to lay the whip to the horses.
and they tore off at a gallop. Weturned |
around and set off at full speed after |
him and the Colonel firing his revolver
in the air to brighten the smuggler, but
in vain. We had fast horse and were
rapidly overtaling him when he turned
into a lane and drew up behind the
barn. The Colonel leaped out and
seized the smuggler by the collar, say
ing: You scoundrel, why didn't you
stop" drew off the buffalo robes to
find the Struggled goods. but only found
a lot of mail bags. The supposed
was mail carrier. Mon
treal Gazette.