Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-26
M|[L|ONA|REs MAY
Be INDICTED IN
SMUGGLING CASE
Relieved They Aided Woman to
Escape Duty on $780,
900 Gems.

NEW YORK, Tune 26.-One OF the
greatest detective stories of a decade,
1t is said today, will be unfolded to the
July Federal grand jury in an effort to
indict Nathan Allen, millionaire leather
manufacturer of Kenosha, Wis, and
John r. Collins, a wealthy coal mer-
chant of Nashville, Tenn, in connec-
ton with the alleged smuggling into
this country of Helen D.. Jenkins's
$500, 900 worth of Jewels, the same gems
that figured in a puzzling robbery at
the Hotel Lorraine two years ago.
With all the evidence the government
is said to have accumulated there is
still a maze of mystery about the case,
and the desperation of some one anx-
ious to suppress the facts has already
resulted in a cowardly blow being
struck Richard Parr, deputy surveyor
of the port, who exposed the sugar
frauds and has done clever work in
digging to the bottom of the smuggling
affair.
Parr Persecution Charged.
Parr had told his wife of the work he
was doing. Doctors had ordered ner
to avoid excitement of all kinds. When
the telephone rang last Wednesday at
the bedside of Mrs. Parr, in her home In
West 143d street, she answered 1t. A
mans voice said he had ar important
message for Mrs. Parr.
your husband is in a very bad posi-
tion," he told her.
"It Is not true" she replied. 81 know
you have been prosecuting him and l
ont listen to you"
1t had been too much for her over
wrought nerves, however, and. drop
ping the telephone, she screamed. h
went into Mysteries that for hours re-
quired the attention of a physician.
The strain made her condition precar-
ious. Yesterday her child was born
dead, and she herself is lowering be-
tween life and death.
While the government is believed b
have traced most of the $500, 900 in gems
said to have been Struggled for Mrs.
Jenkins, 1t has not discovered how
they were brought in. Three weeks
ago, according to report, the govern
ment seized $4,000 worth of gems be-
longing to Mrs. Jenkins. There havo
been plots, and someone has even gone
to the trouble to insinuate charges Of
blackmail against customs agents, but
to no purpose. The attorney for the
suspected men is alleged to have told
COIleCIOr LOeD that III pei III
blackmail accusations had been mis-
taken.
Say Woman Had Aliases.
It is understood Washington was in
formed that Mrs. jenkins, who is. It
Is said, also known by several other
names. first became acquainted with
Mr.. Allen in Chicago In 1908. She was
introduced to him by Mr.. Collins, then
ID ,-itb M Allan ~ tho South.
ern Coal Company, n not long after
ward went to live at the Stratford
Hotel. The following year Mr.. Allen
furnished deliberately a house on Sher-
man road, Chicago, and in March sailed
for Europe on the Kronprinzessen Ce-
! ellie.
Mrs. Jenkins went abroad on the
same steamer, and the two, accom-
panied by Mr.. Collins, returned Juns
s. It was at this time hat the jewels
were brought into the country.
After the secretary of the treasury
had sifted the facts 1t was pointed out
to Mr.. Loeb that he had a good case
and he was told to go ahead. Parr was
sent to Chicago to develop the case.
He took with him Mrs. jenkins, who,
for obvious reasons, had become the
governments principal witness, and
the newspaper reporter who had given
Parr his original information. So close
ly were the trio watched that they gave
up their quest and came back to New
York. It was her that the woman's
jewels were placed in the hands Of
Collector Loeb.
Loeb Refuses settlement.
Three weeks ago after Parr had re-
turned from Chicago there appeared at
Collector Loeb's office in the Custom
House W. s. Forrest, one of tie prin-
cipal criminal lawyers of Chicago. He
told the collector, 1t is said. that he
represented Mr.. Allen and Mr.. Collins
and that he wished to settle the
smuggling case by paying whatever
duty and fines the government might
think fair.
MI Loeb was much Interested In
the case n permitted Mr.. Forrest to
make any suggestion he saw ft.'' said
a governmen official, but the collector
would not give him the slightest hope
that a settlement out of court could be
ApookI