The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-29
AN IMPORTANT
CAPTURE,
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they burned and cached about 30
cans of the drug before the officers
arrived. In order to prevent the
Cinnamon whose homes were to be
searched from communicating with
each other and thus give them an op-
portunity to hide anything they
might have in their possession, four
places spotted were to be searched
simultaneously with each other.
Among them was Louie's store.
Louie is the most intelligent China
man in the city and always acts as
Interpreter for his countrymen and
transacts their business for them.
His right name is Lewray Guam Loy
The city marshal, Mr.. Browne and
Mr.. M~eiklejoln comprised the squad
detailed to search the store. The
former began the work in a system
attic way, assisted by the others. He
delved deep and was also assisted by
Louie himself, who seemed to be
u%nconcerned. Finally the marshal
went down into a sort of hide-away
at the rear of the house and brought
out two wooden boxes about a foot
long and ten inches wide. He asked
Louie what they contained and for
the first time during the search Lou
lie pretended not to hear or under
stand what was said to him. This
convinced the officer that the boxes
contained what they hadbeen search
ing for and he winked at the others
and broke them open. The counter
feiting tools were in them. Louie
and two other Cinnamon, one called
All Chung, we're placed under ar
rest and taken to the county Jail.
The tools were taken to the CITY
marshal's office and locked up.
After finishing up the four places
the officers jumped into a wagon,
drove out to Louie's hog ranch near
Rocker and searched the house there
but did not discover anything. Eight
full cans of struggled opium were
found in Chinatown during the
search. About 100 empties were al
SO discovered.
In speaking Of the matter last
evening Mr.. Ringwald stated that
the treasury department at Wash
ington had been working on the bogus
certificate business for a long period
and this was the first time success
had crowned the efforts of the off
GERS. He spoke very highly of the
aid extended by the city marshal,
chief of police and detective Meikle-
john.
Mr.. Ringwald has been in the city
about ten days and is bright and
capable young man possessed of a
determination to accomplish what
ever task he undertakes. In order
that no one would know him he as
sumed the name Of Charles Reed.
but now that the work is overhe saws
Ernest Ringwald is good enough for
him.
The officers are of the opinion
that about 400 Of the bogus certif-
Gates have been issued to Chinese in
this country and China. To get a
Chinaman from China into the port
of San Francisco all that was neces-
sary was to send one of these filled
out counter certificates bearing the
seal and the forged signature of col
lector Lyman to the persons desir-
ing to enter the United States with
instructions to attach his photograph
to the part covered by the seal. For
these certificates each cinnamon
paid from 5000 to $500. The low
est price known TO have been paid
for one was $50. Many of them
were furnished to Chinese in this
country who had neglected to take
out their certificates before the law
expired.--Butte Miner.