The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-03
LEADERS Of SMUGGLING GANG
ARRESTED IN HAMMOND
Gigantic Plot to Bring Chinese Into
This Country in Defiance of
Law, is Unearthed.
DETECTIVES WORM CONFESSIONS OF GUILTY
Wabash Secret Service Men Capture Law Breakers
Redhanded and Hoodwink Them by Clever Ruse
-Four Chink Arrested

American clothes, with collars and
cuffs and brilliant neckties.
After spending nearly u hours in the
bullrushes, they were hastily brought
into the city where the two agents of
the syndicate met them and had the
transportation all ready waiting They
were bundled aboard the Wabash train
in the dark and all was thought to be
well.
Work Clever Ruse.
The officers noticed the hasty ship
ment but it was not until later that the
tip was received. They joined the
party at Montpelier. O.. and from that
point to Hammond they journeyed in
the company of the six prisoners. Af-
ter the two white men were informed
of the arrest they tried to compromise
with the officers and offered to take
them into the combine and to pay them
Well for the work
The officers for the purpose of gain
ing more information pretended to ac-
cept the offers of the two men and the
plans were unfolded. The officers were
to receive SIPS each when the party
were safely landed at the headquarters
in Chicago, which is said to be on
! Upper State street just above the
Levee district.
| The full story was told by the two
men and it is thought that they will
later unfold the workings of the syndi-
cate and the names of the men in COM
mand VIII be furnished.
| The men who furnished the capital
and the brains of the enterprise are
Detroit men.
DO Lucrative Calling.
this country is comparatively an easy
matter and is a lucrative one. The
men themselves will pay fabulous sums
to get into the big cities of the United
States, while their relatives and secret
societies also pay thousands of dollars
to the syndicates bringing the acoolies
into the cities. After the Keary Law
went into effect hundreds of China
men were deported and as it is impos
sible to obtain the necessary paper.
now, they try to get into the country
without them. Many of them try doz
ems of times and are rear. ested anC
deported
The four Cinnamon arrested wer,
landed from the howery kingdom a
Vancouver and were then shipped t
cities in Ontario. They were drilled t
speak at least few words in the En-
glish language before the ATTEMPTED
smuggling took place. One of the China
men arrested claimed to have formerl!
lived in San Franciso and could tall
much better than the others and wa
able to fathom the postal system of th
United States as he sent a letter I,
the head of the syndicate just as sool
as he landed in Hammond. The fou
men were without papers of any kin,
and stated that they were cooks an
laundry workers. At noon today tn
men were reshipped to Detroit wher
the Cinnamon will once more b
thrown back into Canada and tn
white men Will feel the force of Uncl
Sans laws. They formed a pictures
que procession as they were marche
through the Hammond streets and at
tracted the attention of hundreds o
residents. The officers We're congratu
lated on their clever work Both me
have been engaged in similar bushes
before and have caught many China
men on their way into the Unite
States.