The border vidette., 1904-06-18
DELIVERED THE GOODS.
Louis GreenwaIdt's CoIIosai Snug sling
 Scheme Nipped in the Bud

months Da IIleu the Cnlnese inspectors all along the Mexican line, has just been solved, says the Tucson Citizen of June 18th.
 A gang of snugglers, organized by LouIs Greenwaldt, q San Francisco crook, has been unearthed, the leader taken and complete outfit for the confiscated.
 c. A. Springstein, Green waldt's right hand man in Sonora, Is in custody and his outfit Is in the hands of the officers. Captain Jeff D Milton, an old border officer, has been detailed to locate other agents of the gang along the international line and is now engaged in that work.
 Green waldt himself is in Victoria, B. c. Sprinsstein has made state inent in which he says that Green waldt it fitting up a vessel for the purpose of bringing Chinese laborers to the United States by way of So- nora, Mexico. They were to be sup piled with certificates manufactured with the outfit which Greenwaldt turn ed over to Sprinestein.
 Green waldt is an expert at Chinese smuggling. He was convicted of smuggling opium at San Francisco in 1892 and served six years in San Quin- tin. After his release he went into the Chinese importation business The government officials now know that he operated at Spokane, Wash ington, for a long time and first came to Arizona and Sonora three months ago, seeking virgin field.
 When he opened up on the Mex ican line, Greenwaldt allied himself with c. A. Springstein, who formerly operated at Bisbee and Douglas The pair opened up their esta blishment in the rear of the Palace saloon at Ca nanea.
 Greenwaldt brought with him to So nora, an outfit for the manufacture of
 
 plate for printing them, multitude of rubber stamps, reproductions of those used at San Francisco, a seal making the impression, 70. M. Vel burn, Internal Revenue Collector, First District California; said to be an exact reproduction of the original, facsimile signatures and an apparatus for making the photographs of the Chinamen for use on the certificates
 Fraudulent certificates, turned out by this establishment have been bring ing fifty dollars each. Greenwaldt re- ceived d royalty of 50 per cent, which he agreed to devote to facilitating the business by bringing Chinese into So- nora to be smuggled into the United States.
 When Greenwaldt left, agreeing to return with a shipload of Chinamen, Spring gstein was doing a rushing busi- ness with no fear of detection.
 George w Webb. inspector in charge of Arizona and New Mexico, and his eighteen men along the line, knew that Chinamen were being smuggled by the wholesale but their route could never be located. When found in this country, they all had certificates which appeared to be genuine, although the officers felt certain they had come from Sonora.
 V M Clark, a border officer at Naco, Arizona, gave the officers the tip that led to the discovery of the smugelers and their outfit. Clark fell in with two Chinamen at Naco, Sonora, who 1 not knowing him to be an officer, ask ed his assistance in getting to Tucson. | They showed him blank Chinese certifi- l cates, which they had secured from Springstein and which they could get l filled out for fifty dollars each. Spring l stein wanted another fifty apiece to guarantee to get them to Tucson with | out detection.
 Clark promised to return and assist | the Chinamen and in the meantime ! communicated with Charles T ConneIl, l Chinese inspector at Douglas. Con- nell had Clark appointed a special
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