St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-09
SWINDLED UNCLESAM
Leonard, Alias Nelson, the
Alleged Opium Smugglep,
Booked for Bismarck.
He Will Be Extradited to
Dakota and Tried With
Cuppan.
MinneSotians Will Search for
the Source of the Missis-.
sippi River.
A West Side Polandep Will
Whip His Wife or For
swear Matrimony.

James Leonard, alias A. G. NeillSon,
who was arrested in Denver. Col. Dec.
Is, charged with being the consignee of
case seized at that point by Special
Agent Mark Harden, of this city, con-
tanning 476 pounds of contraband opium,
billed as household goods, from Bot
tineau, OAK, was taken before United
States Commissioner McCafferty yester
day afternoon, to decide the question of
his identity. United States Marshal
Currier, of Denver. who made the ar
rest, was present. Cyrus Wellington
appeared OH behalf of the prisoner, and
United States District Attorney
George n. Baxter handled the
case for the government. Marshal
Currier testified that he knew
the defendant. Leonard was the man
he had arrested at Denver on the charge
specified in the Indictment, Leonard
had gone to the depot to claim the pack
age of alleged household effects. Cur
rier asked him if his name was A. c.
Neillson. He replied that it was, but
subsequently stated his name to be
James Leonard. The witness also tes-
tilted to having found about twenty-five
pounds of the drug i'll a trunk belong
ing to the accused. in the Hotel Metro
while in Denver. No testimony was
offered in behalf Of the prisoner. At
torney Wellington held that the pris-
oner could not be held owing to the
lack of evidence connecting him with
the person mentioned in the indict-
ment, while Attorney Baxter con-
tended that the fact of the
man having been arrested in Denver
giving his name as A. c. Neillson alias
Leonard, and that they had brought be-
fore the commissioner man who gave
his name as NeilIson, otherwise Leon
ard, was sufficient for the holding of the
prisoner, as the object of his being
brought before the commissioner was
not to convict him OF the crime with
which he Is charged, but simply TO
said the states attorney, cannot be pre-
scented without bringing in evidence
damaging TO the prisoner from the
standpoint of his guilt OF innocence of
the charge of smuggling. Several cases
bearing similarity in various points
were cited by Attorney Wellington in
support of his contention, which the
commissioner ruled to be inapplicable
to the case under consideration. COM
missioner McCafferty held the prisoner
in the sum of $1,000.
Leonard will be brought before Judge
Nelson this morning and papers made
out for his eXtradtion TO Bismarck,
OAK, where he will be taken at once in
charge of Marshal Campbell.
The prisoner is one Of the men who
have been employed in facilitating the
transfer of contraband opium into the
the prisoner down was assigned to Spe-
cial Agent Mark Harden, who tracked
Leonard to Denver and subsequently
caused his arrest. Schemes were also
laid with view tG securing the arrest
of the conSignors OF the Struggled drug
which was seized in Denver. consigned
to Leonard. This resulted ill the arrest
on Dec. Is of NJ. Curran. of Bottineau,
Oak, who was found to have been the
consignor Of the package seized by
Agent Harden. Curran is farmer near
BottiGeaU. and processes entire limo
cence of completely in the schemes Of
the smuggling gang. His story
is that a man drove up to his
form one night and PIT up his
team, having iii his wsgoE some heavy
hold goods, and that he intcnded to ship
them to Denver. In the morning the
stranger told Curran that his team was
tired out, having been over worked the
Gay previous, and asked Curran TO take
his own team. haul the goods to Botti-
neau, and ship them TO Denver. which
Curran did without any knowledge Of
their character. He knew nothing
mere of the matter until arrested. Cur
ran has testimonials from Judge Een-
nett, Of Bottineau, ard many prominent
business men Of that place, as to his
character and integrity. He was at one
Chicago millionaire who was murdered,
supposedly by Tascott. There is. how
ever, strong evidence CO Curran's con-
ncction with the gang OF smugglers.