The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-29
HOW THEY GET IN
4 Gang Of SmuSslerS Now in the GoY-
ernment'S Custody.
THEY Did A Big BUSINESS
In Introducing Cinnamon at 500 a
a Head-An Underground Railway
That is Now stopped Up-verv Clever
Work by special Officers.

BOSTON May 29.-Two Cinnamon have
been placed under arrest In Vermont by
special officers of the government for
fraudently introducing their fellow coun
trymen into the states. They were Frank
g. Park Of St. Johnsbury and Chin Poy
of Lydenville, the latter transacting bust
ness under the assumed name Of Charlie
Wah Kee.
These men were lodged in Jail at st.
Johnsbury. Charles H. Smith has also
been arrested at Charleston by United
States Marshal Farley and placed in Jail
at Newport, VT. Warrants have been is
sued, and officers are In hot pursuit Of
Frank Ross, also Willis Hopkins and wife,
and their arrest is hourly expected
1t appears that some months ago Special
Agent of the Treasury Department Com
verse j. Smith Of Boston obtained in
formation that Chinese laborers and laun-
drymen were being smuggled In large
numbers into the United States, and ac.
tive measures were taken TO break up the
fraudulent system. 1t was soon ascer
tanned that the operators were
shrewd and Desperate,
ard controlled system extending from
the Pacific coast TO Boston, with n number
of agents in the principal cities as man
ayers
The charges upon which warrant il is
sued are that when the Cinnamon were
taken from Montreal they were delivered
to one Frank Lee. also a Chinaman and
laundryman, at Sherbrooke, p. @, who
secreted them for 10 days or two weeks in
order that no trail might be obtained OF
the men, and then under cover Of the night
they were taken by carriage by A. Y.
Miles to his residence at Stanstead, near
the border.
Miles, so sit is said, had fitted up his
house for accommodation of these men.
and here they were also detained for a
time and then forwarded again by night
10 one Charles l.. Smith at Charleston,
VT, who in turn delivered them to Chinese
laundrymen u Lydenville or ST. Johns
bury, VT, some 90 miles from the border,
and at these points the Cinnamon have
taken trains to Lowell, Lawrence and
other cities.
Frank Ross and Willis Hopkins, also
Matte Ross a daughter Of the former,
who was united in marriage to Hopkins
two weeks since all residing at Charles
ton, have also. it is charged, fraudulenty
introduced Cinnamon and acted as car
riers between the points mentioned. Sew
eral of these parties have also 1t is be-
lieved, been engaged in smuggling opium
and other merchandise.
The number of Cinnamon thus fraudu-
lently introduced cannot be estimated, but
il Is known TO be large, as great num-
ber Of tickets have been purchased at st.
Johnsbury and Lydenville by the men
now under arrest.
IL is believed that Miles and others re-
ceived 500 for each Chinaman thus carried
across the line. and the
Money Has Been Divided.
The special agents believe they have un-
earthed. with the assistance of Deputy Col
lector Nelson of Derby Line and other
Vermont custom officials, one of the
largest and best organized gangs that have
ever operated in New England, and look
upon the arrest of the parties as of great
Importance.
The prisoners will be given a hearing to-
day at Burlington, VT, before United
States Commissioner johnson.