The Stamford American., 1906-10-11
CAPTURE THE FROLIC.
Smuggler of Chinese Over
 hauled at Providence.
CELESTIALS RUN IN AT MANY PORTS
Captain and Mate of Yacht Escape. Two Members of Crew Taken Tell of Adventures on Voyage
 From Newfoundland.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Oct. 1.-The schooner yacht Frolic, for which immi. grafton officials have been searching along the New England coast for over two weeks, was captured here after twenty-seven Chinamen had been smuggled ashore
 Eighteen Chinamen were captured, as were Edward Jenkins and John C. Lehnemann of Boston and William A. Duncan of Somerville., Jenkins and Duncan were members of the crew. and Lehnemann assisted in smuggling the aliens ashore. Captain Herbert H. Colby and his mate, Al AmeS, both of Boston, made their escape.
 The escaped Chinamen are hiding in the Chinese quarter, and every precau- tion has been taken to prevent them from leaving the city.
 The most amazing part of the affair is the fact that the Frolic entered the harbor in broad daylight, anchoring on the west side of the Providence river at Harbor Junction.
 Despite the vigilance of the coast guards and the revenue cutters from
 
 schooner came up the harbor without attracting any attention, those who saw her taking her for a fishing schoon- CT.
 It was by the purest accident that it was discovered that she was the Frolic when Earl Rush, who is employed at the coal pockets, stumbled over two men huddled in heap on the wharf of the coal yard at early dawn.
 He discovered that they were Chi nese, and he was about to eject them from the premises when some one on board the schooner cried out: Don't bother those fellows. I will look after them.'
 Rush then returned to the office of the company and informed the police. Officers were dispatched to the scene, and a boarding party went out to the schooner, In the party were United States Deputy Marshal Richmond J. Stone and several policemen and some employees of the coal yard.
 The vessel was the Frolic. No at tempt had been made to remove from her stern the raised letters which form
  hung over the stern, concealing it. The deckhouse was covered with white canvas, giving the craft the appearance of a fishing schooner.
 Jenkins and Duncan talked freely. They said they were hired to man the Frolic by Captain Colby, who informed them that he had chartered the vessel to take out pleasure party. They sailed from Boston on Aug. % and headed for Halifax. Upon arriving at that port Captain Colby told his men that the sailing party had not put in an and he then set sail for Placentia. N. F.
 At that place forty-two Chinamen were waiting for the Frolic. and little time was lost in slowing them on board. With his human freight below decks Captain Colby hoisted all avail able canvas and started on his voyage down the coast.
 Jenkins, Duncan and Lehnemann were taken before the United States authorities, and each was held in 3D. 500 bail for hearing in Boston. In default the men were locked up.
 Lehnemann said that in the latter part of last July the schooner Venetia, in command of Keiser, put into Mar blehead and landed thirty-three Chi namen. They were met by Boston men and taken to that city by trolley.
 The operations of the smugglers have not been confined to Canadian points. On more than one occasion Chinamen were assembled at Mexican and Ja- maican ports and then landed in New England.
 Captain Herbert Colbys home is in South Boston, and he is we'll known among yachtsmen of that locality. He has a wife and eight children.
 Jenkins, who is eighteen years old, is also we'll known among local yachts men. Lehnemann is known to the pO lice as a frequenter of Chinatown.
 The eighteen Chinamen captured on the yacht Frolic were arraigned before United States Commissioner Cross and held for examination.