Griggs courier., 1889-02-15
CANADIAN sMuoeLERs.
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Messrs. Wolff and Crosse, special Gus
toms agents. were sitting in their office
with one or two friends. The conver-
satiou was about smugglers and SNUG.
Cling, and Mr.. Wolff was relating how
he had captured smuggler in New
Brunswick. 81 was with another off,
cer," he said, .sin district where
smuggling was said to DO very COM
mon. We stopped one night ut q house
on the roadside. and were SO we'll 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 aud
said:
"'Don'tbe too hard on poor fellow
1--WE caught on at once and said to
him: We'll. you have been very kind
to us. Bring out the stuff and we will
be as easy on you as we can The man
brought out the smuggled goods and
we seized them"
There was a jeweler in this city I
caught in something the same way"
said Mr.. Grose. 81 was informed that
he had bought twelve gold rings which
he knew to have been smuggled. got
a description of them, and going into
the jewelers. office told him had
come for some goods he had smuggled
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. l
asked hvn what that was, and he said
that was all he had smuggled. l
looked through them all, but could not
find the rings was looking for. SO l
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
chat 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. I sent for an
officer to watch the rings and went my
self to the mans brother, in whose
store seized $4,000 worth of jewelry.
The seizure in the first store amounted
to about $5,00o."
"a clever trick was played q 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 filled with
pure water"
II had quite an exciting experience
one winter night out in the townships" :"
said Mr.. Grose. II was wi h 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
aead, 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 W. are the very men he
ought to meet" We drew up, aud
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 ans YER he
made was to lay the whip to the horses.
and they tore off at a gallop. Weturned
/ around and set of at a full speed after
aim and the Colonel firing his revolver
the air to frighten the smuggler, bu,
in vain. We had fast horse and wer
'apidly overtaISing him when he turned
nto lane and drew up behind tn
Darn. The Colonel leaped out and
seized the smuggler by the collar, say
ng: ''You scoundrel. why didn't you
itop" drew off the buffalo robes to
ind the sml yyled oods. but only found
lot of mail bags. The supposed
,muggler was q mail carrier. .".-Mou-
treal Gazette.