Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-10-13

Providence, r. Although Boston,s
famous smuggling schooner yacht Frol'
ic has been seized by the government 1t
and is now in it's possession and do
smile the fact that the federal ohceTs
have in custody 19 of the Chinamen
who were on board the yacht, ana that
rTIvtI uCUuSN5esr UtT COttit t''a>'-
ity in the conspiracy to smuggle China
men into the United States from
Newfoundland port are locked up at
the central police station in default
of bail of $250O each, Chief Chinese
immigration Inspector Augustus P.
Schen and his corps of assistants in
spectors are not wholly happy.
Things, at least some things, have
come their way, but they have sue
ceeded in arresting less than half the
| Cinnamon who were brought illegally
into this port on the Frolic, and to
add to the discontinue of the federal
officers the biggest fish in the Frolic's
fare has slipped through their fingers
and there seems to be no clew to his
whereabouts
The man most wanted of all those
on the smuggler was Capt. Herbert
| f. Colby, the South Boston skipper
who commanded the Frolic, and who
is credited by the government forces
with having been one of the ringlead-
ers in what they are convinced was a
well organized and heretofore extra
ordinary successful plan to bring
Cinnamon into this country in large
| numbers.
The officers are also satisfied that,
while at least 100 and probably more
Cinnamon have been landed in New
England, the most of them in
Massachusetts, during the past sum-
mer, the managers of the enterprise
were preparing to illegally import
Chinese coolies here in wholesale lots.
Therefore, holding that Capt. Colby
was one of the three principal leaders
in the business, they are especially
| anxious to capture him.
The Froic, for which revenue cut
ters have been securing the sea from
New York to Miquelon nearly three
weeks, and was never sighted by any
of them, nor picked up by the hun
dreds of lighthouse keepers and life
saving crews scattered along the
eastern seaboard, sailed saucily and
confidentially into this harbor at 10
| Tuosdo,y- morning with az Cinnamon
confined under matches, lay all day in
the Providence river opposite HarboT
Junction and in the early hours OF
the morning managed to get her IL
legal cargo ashore without being de-
tected
1t was by the merest chance that
Henry Clark, an employe of coal
company, stumbled on two of the
to the identity of the Frolic and the
capture of the white men and the
18 Cinnamon arrested.
This coal company employe notified
the police and they succeeded in ar
resting Is Of the coolies within a
couple of hours. Later in the morn
ing they captured John G. Lehne-
mann, brother of James B. Lehne-
mann, both of Boston, the latter claim
ed by the officers to be one of the
most daring and successful SNUG
glers in the United States.
There we're also arrested Edward
Fl. Junkins of 1863 5th street, South
Boston, who was the mate of the
Frolic, and William A. Duncan, Jr. of
s2 Tenney court, East Somerville, a
member of the crew.
Albert A. Ames, who boarded with
Junkins in South Boston, and who
was a member Of the crew, succeeded
in making his escape, as did Capt.
Colby
John G. Lehnemann, Junkns and
Duncan have all made confessions, and
are believed, with the exception Of
Lehnemann, to have told all they
know. Apparently Junkins and Dun
can have not held back anything.
The immigration officers think John
Lehnemann is lying, because he as
serts this is the first time he ever had
anything to do with smuggling, al
though he admits his brother James
has been in the business some time.
John claims he did not know what he
came here for, when he did come here
in response to letter from his broth
er, but he admits freely enough that
he helped Capt. Colby land "a of the
Cinnamon in this city.