The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-06-03

The other two Cinnamon the cooks
kept on board and succeeded i'll Sc
GREETING them even from the dining
| car walters and conductor all the way
to Chicago. One of the cooks told how
they would take the Cinnamon out of
| the ice box when he got chilled and
| put him in the linen closet till he
thawed out, while the one in the linen
closetowas given a. sojourn in the ice
box ST. ~ d4asa fitu
Convoy Gets Receipt.
Clark, according TO the cooks, made
this first trip to Chicago with them.
| At the Englewood station, they said,
| he took the Cinnamon OH the train
on the side opposite the depot ana
led them down private path to a
4 Wentworth avenue car, on which they
/ came down town. The convoy, Clark,
1 then delivered his charges to Sam
Wah and Chin Yin Quai at their South
i Clark street headquarters, where a
4 receipt was given the brakeman.
\ The cooks said that Clark brought
4 the receipt for the two Cinnamon to
/ them at Wabash avenue saloon,
4 which is a lettering place for men OF
| their occupation. They left Chicago
/ for Eel Paso the same night, and as
i soon as they arrived there they pre-
4 sented the receipt to Bob Leung at his
saloon and cafe, "The American Grill
| Leung paid them 500, which they
1 split equally among them.
| In the same manner, the cooks testi-
| field, they were informed of other jobs
by Stephenson and Clark. They made
trips on, Oct. IA, 20 and rs, each time
1 taking two Cinnamon. CLARK, they
1 said, did not accompany them on these
trips, and one of the cooks too the
| Cinnamon off the train at Englewood
/ and brought them down town. They
4 got the receipt and the subsequent
. compensation in the same manner as
\ on the, first trip.
| On Nov. l the cooks said they were
1 given directions for another job, but
that night they waited in vain for the
| Cinnamon to be hoisted over the fence.
At last Heltzel appeared and told them
/ that there would be no consignment
/ that night, as no Cinnamon had been
brought across the river.
/ 1t appears the United States mount,
ed secret service men patrolling the
frontier had spied four men proving
along the bank of the Rio Grande on
the Mexican side shortly after dark.
Il rln he tnth hnrGnG
| crept on hands and knees into some
| brush, and there heard all the men
were saying on the opposite bank.
| Their talk branded them as smugglers
and presently, the quartet began wad-
ing the river, which was low at that
| time of year. . .2,
/ When they reached the American
bank the secret service men captured
them and found they had the two sus-
\ pected Mexican smugglers, PARA and
Savedra, and two Cinnamon. The
Mexicans were locked up and have
been in Jail ever since.
| The next forenoon when the train
| pulled out Stephenson, the cooks say,
| boarded their car and told them OF
the miscarriage of the plans to de-
\ liver to them two Cinnamon. They
told him that Heltzel already had in
| formed them at midnight.
Trainmen Winked at 1t. ...'.t
Stephenson, Clark and Heltzel were
employed at the time on the Ell Paso
| and Southwestern, a part of the Rock
Island system. All the Cinnamon con-
| signed to Chicago were brought over
that route, it is said. But there was
plenty of other evidence that hundreds
of Cinnamon were being sent over
| other lines by other crews of train
men. Chief Eberstein's Chicago
sleuths found that the smuggling was
known generally in Ell Paso and among
trainmen recognized as regular oc-
cupatiop and legitimate way of max
ing d flittle money on the side. RE
| ports, as yet unverified,' had it that
some high commanding railroad Off
Gals knew all about what was going
| on. ~ -'' '
The three cooks were impelled to
confess their share in the plot inme-
diately following the discovery of the
/, body OF the dead Chinaman in Kansas
| City railroad yards. One of the trio
| was charged with knowledge of the
mans death. He stoutly denied it and
proved he was running out on FL Paso
the night before the body was found.
| In order to demonstrate that he could
have had nothing to do with the
Chinamans fate he described how
careful he always was of his contra
band human beings and told of the
night where he took the three China
men out Of the supply box and refused
to carry them there from fear tina,
! they would smother. The full con-
fession of the three cooks followed.
Shirer Procures Indictments.
Nov. two more Cinnamon were
shipped out of Eel Paso, but were inter
cepted at Carizozo, N. M. The inves-
| tigation was continued without making
any arrests, however, till early this
year, when District Attorney Sims as
signed his assistant, Seward s. Shirer
to the case. Assistant District Attor-
ney Childs had a preliminary investi-
osotipn and Mr. Ghirpr- nrocured tho