Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-17
SAUGGLER' OF
OPIUM CAUGHT
ONCHIYO MARU

The second man TO step across the
gangway leading from the Togo Kisen
Kaisha liner Chiyo Maru to the Alakea
wharf this morning was A. Aebusa, a
japanese butcher employed in the ves-
sci, who before he passed inspection
at the hands of Customs Officer Nc
Nicoll, was placed under arrest, while
two tins of prepared opium, valued at
about one hundred dollars, were con-
fiscated
Securely fastened to each leg at a
point about halfway below the knee,
the federal official, in running his
hands down the body OF the japanese,
came upon the concealed drug.
To better facilitate the smuggling OF
the opium and designed to avoid de-
lection. the big exporters of the poppy
Juice are said to have hit upon q
unique as well as much smaller pack
age than usual. A container, made of
brass and securely soldered at the
cover has of late been found success
II, the landing of considerable quanti-
ties OF the commodity.
The new container is OF size that
will permit it being slipped within the
folds of stocking or an undergar-
ment.
Following the find made by In
spector McNicoll this morning, instruc-
tons were issued by which all Off
GERS. members of the crew and stew
ards department and steerage passerl-
gers were carefully searched Those
engaged In the loading of vegetables
and supplies were not spared in the
quest for the contraband drug.
A young woman was given station
near the saloon entrance to the ship
and to her was assigned the duty of
keeping close tab on women passen-
gers. In this instance. while no search
was ordered. 1t is the purpose of the
federal officers to make careful note
of all those who leave and return to
the ship during the stay in port.
The customs squad paid a visit to
the room occupied by the Chiyo's
butcher. After some time, several adj
ditional packages of opium were dis
covered hidden in locker
Collector Of the Port Stackable was
an Interested spectator at the Alakea
wharf as the Asiatie crew and pas
sengers left the vessel for the shore.
He remained there for some time and
took hand in the direction of the
forces.
With the exception of Harbor Off,
Ger Carter, city and county secret ser
vice men and police were conspicuous
by their absence at the arrival OF the
Chiyo Maru from San Francisco this
Their work with the Paci-
fic Mail steamer MaHchuria lay main
ly in watching the movements of two
or three passengers, who had pur-
chased through tickets to the Orient
before leaving San Francisco De-
spite the fact that the personal effects
of these people were minutely in
spected, and the iiftlivfdaais trailed
throughout the day, II is said that
nothing of an Matchmaking nature
was discovered.
One of the suspects who reached
the city in the Manchuria with a.
through ticket to Hongkong, changed
his mind following the encounter with
the formidable array of officers, and
decided at a late hour to return to
the coast, taking passage in the Mat
SOds 1NdNl6d(tOu olSdtuSuip f1OfOfuidH.
That the officers were in quest of
papers and records. believed to be of
sufficiently discriminating nature to-
bring certain members of the alleged
coast and island ''opiuIn ring within
the meshes of the law, is the belief
expressed. The story goes that sew
eraI parties have been dispatched for
China, there to arrange for heavy
purchases of opium, the same to be
forwarded to the United States on the
first available steamers crossing the
Pacific. To gain possession of such
data has for some time been the de-
sire of customs collectors at many
american ports The return of these
purchasing agents will be awaited by
the Honolulu forces with more than
passing interest.