The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

but for weeks he has been quietly in
vestigating.
Two weeks ago, in a Baltimore chop
suey "ioint'' seated with one OF his
Celestial assistants. he overheard a con-
versation and caught Wings name.
knowing ne wasn't far away from the
seat of operations. he kept close TO the
trail, and finally discovered that each
Saturday between so and 100 Baltimore
Cinnamon caught the electric car for
WASHINGTON. He discovered that they
drifted down lower Pennsylvania ave
nue. when they arrived, and he also
found out that most of them carried
packages home with them, after
weekend in Chinatown. Then he knew
he was on the trail of big game.
Got What He Wanted.
Wednesday Operative NJ. NJ. Todd, Per-
kins right hand man. drilled into Hing S
cigarmaking factory, asked for smoke
of hop. and got it. He found that Ying
was selling the stuff in wholesale lots,
and that twenty or thirty Cinnamon, most
of them strangers in town. visited the
place daily and didn't buy cigars. Most
of them took away little square tins of
opium, and some of them brought empty
canvas bags and carried them away load
ed. More than one Of the Cinnamon told
Todd of residing in cities in the North
and far South.
So Perkins knew he had struck some
thing big. and Chief of Internal Reve-
nue. Agents G. w. Trowbridge, whose
Headquarters is in Washington, was
notified, and the simultaneous raids
were planned. Even the Washington
police were left in Ignorance of the
Importance of the haul. Chief Trow-
bridge merely asked for a few detec-
InNN
lingame, and J. E. Armstrong were or
dered to assist the Federal sleuths.
Operatives T. E. Stone. NJ. NJ. Todd, E.
A Feinster, and Deputy Collectors
Roger Mather. w. r. Pohlet, and J. B.
Belt were working on the case with
Perkins
Though Ying was the man the Secret
Service men were after, the other three
places did not fail to furnish excite
ment. The High Yuen Company, S1S
Pennsylvania avenue; the Wah Yick
Company, 1923 Pennsylvania avenue; the
Kim LaI Yuen Company, 325 Pennsyl-
vania avnue, and the Wah Chang Com
pany. 346 Pennsylvania avenue, were
each filled with opium smokers.
white Woman Found.
The detectives found more than 200
Cinnamon in the five buildings. On the
second floor of the Wah Yick Company
building, a splendidly ornate establish
ment, there was a middle-aged white
woman holding a tiny American-Chinese
child in her arms. A five-year-old Ce-
lestial tot, chubby and wholesome look
ing, was playing on the floor with an
opium needle and part of A pipe.
Fan-tan games were found in three
of the establishments. but the revenue
officers were not after that sort of game,
and they ignored the gambling evidence,
though Maj. Sylvestor's detectives took
mental notes. The United States sleuths
were only after smuggled opium, and
though they could have filed every
downtown precinct cell. they paid no
attention to violations of District laws.
All Handsomely Furnished.
The Eve places entered were in modern
buildings, each company owning its own
place, and all Of them were handsomely
furnished
Ying makes good cigars, and though his
tobacco traffic was used as a blind. the
police say he had a good legitimate busi-
ness.
The confiscated dope" was taken to
room. az at the National Hotel, two
blocks away.
Perkins and his assistants have made
the room their headquarters for week
while the raid was being planned.
When the newspaper men arrived they
found two tables Uttered with confscated
booty, and half dozen officers. weary
from two weeks of constant work. taking
II easy and examining the haul
: There were ten opium pipes, worth from