The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-17
Thrifty Yankees Making Good
Money Out of a New
SLAVE TRADE DEAL.
Instead of Smuggling in Negroes as OF
Old, They Smuggle in Chinamen in
Violation of the Immigration
Law and Are Arrest.

Some OF our thrifty Yankee breth
rem have been caught at Providence
&. l., at their old trick OF tranckins
in human beings in violation Of ths
::aws OF their country.
After having eYaded the United
States customs and immigration cff
:,srs FOR more than two weeks the
caooner yacht Frolic, which lefi
P:acentia, n F., wish cargo Of con
:raband Chinese Immigrants, VIA:
boarded IN the Providence r.ver early
:oday and confscated in the name Of
the Uaited States government.
Two men were arrested on suspicion
Of being concerned in che smuggling
II Chinese into this country; while
;aventesn Chinese, believed to have
been passengers On the Froltc weEe
also arrested.
Despite the vigilance OF the scoss;
guards and the revenue cutters from
Esstport, Maine, to Cape Hatteras
The schooner came up the harbor with
out attracting any attention, those
Who saw her taking her for q fahine
schooner.
Il was by the purest accident that
it was discovered that the beat was
she Frolic. At an early hour a man
employed at the coal pockets stumbled
over two Chinese huddled in a heap
on the wharf Of the coal yard. he
vas about TO ejact them from the pre-
misses when some one on board the
schooner cried out:
'D1n't bother those fellows. I will
look after them" The workman In
formed the police Of what ::ad happan-
ed. Officers were dispatoaed to t1s
scene and within q short time eight
Chinese had been captured.
At the police station 1t was learned
that the two men captured on board
the vessel were Edward z. jenkins OF
South Boston and William A. Duncan.
OF Somerville. According TO their
story, they, with "Al" Anes, Of Bos
ton, constituted the crew OF the SNUG
e!er, while Herbert q. Colby, also 8
Boston man, commanded the vessel.
The two last named are now at large
as are twenty.seVs1 Jainanen. wno
had been landed before the poics dis,
covered shat the Frouc vas In the hat'
Dor.
jenkins and Dun ,an talked freely
after they had been locked up. Ac
cording to their statements they were
employed by Capt. Colby to mann sh=
Erolic, who they say, informed them
that he had chartered the vessel for
the purpose OF talking out a pleasure
party.
They sailed from Boston, August
2ssh, and headed for Plzcentia, New
Fouodland At that place forty two
Cinnamon we're waiting for the arrival
Of the Frolic and little time was lost
in slowing them on board. With his
cargo Of human freight below decks,
Captain Colby hoisted all available
canvas and started on his voyage down
toe coast.
jenkins, Duncan and Lshnemann
we're brought before the Uaited States
authorities and sent to jsn In defauls
OF 81, 500 oail each.
Lahneuann made statements
which. If true, indicate that the SNUG.
ling CT Chinese into New England
bas been going on for years with
great profit. BE stated that an ex.
pedition like that Of the Frolic net
ted about sl5, 900 clear Of all ezpen.
ses. Serious charges were also MADE
by Lshnsmann in connection Win the
ease With which Chineze can be landed
on the shores OF New England.
Lshnemann explained that the
Chinese were brought from their ma
tive country to Csnsda and from there
in small groups to New Foundland,
where they we're held to await a yes
sci from the United States.
John @. Lsnnemann Of Boston was
one Of the men arrested for completely
in the smuggling operations and whose
statement alleged that the Cntnamen
brought by the Frolic from New
Foundlann came to that county direct
from China.