The morning call., 1893-09-14
FOND OF LIBERTY.
SmuggIers in and Out of
the Tolls.
LUPP WANTS TO GET OUT,
Johnson Gives BondS-No Trace of
Patterson-Petitions for Pardons.
Blum Out on Bail.

The oiler of the German collier Romu-
lus. Charles johnson, who was one of the
three men shot at by Customs Inspectors
Sprague and Casey. at the Oakland pier
early Friday morning. and who, later in
the day, was neatly Caught on board the
RomuIus by Port Surveyor Paris Kilburn,
Special Treasury Agent Evans and other
Federal ofncials, gave bonds yesterday in
the sum of $500 before United States
Commissioner Heacnck. His sureties are
Mrs. Mary DALEY, the keeper OF lodging
ing-house at 1920 Powell street, where
Johnson formerly lived; George II.
Green, a real-esrate agent of Oakland, and
friend named George Fisher. Mrs.
Daley and Mr.. Green qualified in the sum
of $500 each ard Mr.. Fisher in S1Oc0
Nothing has yet been learned about the
condition OF whereabouts Of the man
Patterson, who jumped overheard from
the little boat at the Oakland pier when
the officers fired. Ii he succeeded in get
ting out of the water by climbing up the
slippery piles, or otherwise he has since
concealed his identity very effectually.
Nobody about the Custom-house seems
inclined 10 believe that there was the re-
hottest possibility Of him being shot, be-
cause the officers who did the shooting
Tired more to scare the men than anything
else, 1t is said. He might have been
drowned, but that sailor. accustomed to
water as Patterson was supposed to have
been, should drown when there was any,
thing at all like piing TO cling to, is very
much doubted II has been speculated
that he might have succeeded in getting OF
board the Romulus, and going north to
Victoria, b. e., as a stowaway.
Proceedings may be commenced against
the Rnmulus herself. when she returns to
this port. The fact that Johnson was dis
covered in the act OF lowering the opium
from her deck into the small boat is a
considerable smuggling had been done by
the Romulus' crew, some of whom are said
by the Federal authorities to be old offend
eTs. Inc RomnluS had evidently picked
up star gang" for Its crew. the authori-
ties say.
Captain Fred C. Dpering of the SNUG
Cling schooner, the Louise Olsen. SEN
fenced to one years Imprisonment about
I'VE months ago for smuggling Chinese
into the country. has applied to President
Cleveland for pardon.
His reasons are that he was not person
ally interested in the smuggling of the
chinese. has sailed under the United
States flag for twenty-five years, thirteen
OF them along the coast, and has a wife
and child to support. United States Dis
trlct Attorney Garter will make a report
upon his petition. According to Captain
Deering. he has already served eight
months in prison. three of them being be-
fore the date of his sentence.
A similar petition by Engineer Fred
Lupp of the Olsen has gone on to Wash
ington with favorable recommendation
by Mr.. Garter. Lupus action at the time
OF the recent attempted jal-break at the
Alameda County Jail earned for him this
piece OF good fortune.
He was serving years sentence, like
Captain Deering, and owing to his good
behavior and other considerations, was
employed about the Jail as a trusty. Three
prisoners, one OF them being man named
James ODonnell. who is now serving
long sentence at San Quentin for burglary.
succeeded in almost overpoweriug Jailer
laller's timely aid and prevented ODUn-
nell from using a slingshot But for
Lupus action the break would doubtless
have been successful and the jailer much
used-up man.
The circumstances OF the smuggling of
thirty-five Chinese aboard the Louise
Olson are well known, and only very
short time ago United States District
Judge Morrow decided that her owner,
William Oson, would have to stand trial.
The preliminary examination of T.
treer, who brought down on the Walla
Walla from Victoria, b. c., sixty tins of
opium in trunk. entered 1T the Custom
house as household effects" the drug
being concealed by false bottom, will in
all probably be waived to-day.
United States Marshal Long got tele-
gram yesterday from Nat Blum of Port
land, part owner of the steamer Haytian
Republic, which is tied up there for snug
Cling, informing him that Blum has been
given his liberty on bail.
Sixteen persons were implicated In the
operations of the seized steamer, and four
indictments were found against Blum, who
was arrested on three of them aud put I'M
der $4,000 bonds, but action upon the
fourth was deferred by Prosecuting AttOr-
ney Murphy until about week ago, when
Blum, who was on his way TO San Fran
cisco on visit. was arrested shortly after
boarding the Piedmont at Oakland. His
efforts TO get bail here-S500o-we I'M
successful, and he was finally taken back
TO Portland on an order of removal