New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-04
Two Held for Cocaine
smuggIing-Big Con
spiracy Planned,
uIIGE PROFITS DUE
IN OPIUM SCHEME
n.ta Showing That One Pris-
orer Was in Arms Plot Found
During Raid.

-.,to l. Miles plan TO earn r
-, Of 100000 a year by smuggling
.;rr, INTO this country and selling it
- WIS upset yesterday. He was
hUe -t, bcfore United States Commits
o iSnsr Houehton and held in $4,000
10 The charge against him was con
oS.. ..,. 10 dcfraud the government. lie
~ ~c.,iyci many packages Of cocaine
.Lt,,ncb the mails from Germany and
1u.,iected 20 pay the duty II Is al
legged. ..... .... orr,;.,oa c,,...u
u.'i5..L alias Charles G.. May. Of 916
80 Avenue. who was recently re
So from Blackwell'S Island. where
*. 'sse-ved sentence for peddiing CO.
- The men were IN partnership.
20 nolice say. 60 carry on an extern
~. opium smuggling business.
,,;I;c Is the president of the Peru
-. C,smavro Rubber Corporation. Its
49, were 40 90 Wall Street until the
G., vss eyicted for non-payment Of.
~ ~. TbC,r present whereabouts could
~. :. determined yesterday. His
-, Tovo. IS said TO be wealthy
t'-,er in Da'watls. Austria. Bales Of
&c. imported from the Nihc estate
-. 20 hold the opium. "a Persian
..ospet. concealed m their centres, it
(. sss,rted I'm addition TO his other
-..v;..ss Milo az times sent large
.S,,meuts of arms and ammunition 10
Mexico.
The arrest Of the chief conspirator
81. c.Js+ thc federal authorities believe
4 tho biggest drug smuggling plot dis
.oror,i In several wears took place on
T,es5ov NIGHT nj 675 Riverside Drive.
rSsro V.Ec and his wife. whom he
-,s-ried in Peru. her native country,
we're living.
Headed bv Harold A. Content. As
.;.tsrt United States District Attorney.
Crstor1s Iu~pcl.orS Lewis. Collins and
Kvte went 90 the accused mans apart
msrt They carried q warrant issued
~ Iu6re Julius ~. Mayer, in the fed
srsl court. The men waited at q bend
~ the hau until the door leading 10
he APARTMENT was opened TO admit
Esrl ". Buck. former business asso-
,,ats and counsel for Mile. All en-
tered AZ once.
search of the rooms revealed more
han fifty packages, each containing
3, least an ounce of cocaine. which had
bssp fought for 90 cents IN Germany
and Struggled through the mails 70
,N;s city. where the selling price IS SO
an ounce.
Milo submitted 20 arrest quietly.
His wife was not held. as the authorl-
10, were convinced THAI she had no
knowledge Of the smuggling transac-
tons
The plot TO bring I'm the opium was
stumbled upon by the special agents OF
,he Treasury Department when they
took advantage OF Waldeck's SoJourn
8, Blselwelrs Island 20 Investigate the
source Of his supply of the drug. Mile,
they learned, was waiting for the prs
oner 10 be released before starting
new enterprise. The Austrian had not
sufficient cash 20 make advance pay
nents on the opium, Il is SAID, which
bis European agents demanded.
Miles arrest was timed for the day
upon which his friend was set free.
The latter was promptly arrested when
he stepped from the Blachwell's Island
ferry.
At the Riverside Drive apartment
house Mile was known as +. /. Ler-
.oIa. He moved there a few weeks ago
from The Bronx. He was graduated
from an Austrian university, where he
specialized lu chemistry His exploita-
ton Of rubber plantations IN Peru,
upon which ne secured an option and
then incorporated "a stock company,
did no. net him tho riches he expected.
He searched about for another means
Of acquiring p fortune: it was then,
so the government agents say. he hIt
upon the drug smuggling scheme.
in Berlin cocaine is sold freely at 30
cents an ounce. Letters containing
small amounts were forwarded TO him
IN New York. being addressed to
Charles G.. May lWaldeckl, at go Sixth
Avenue, the officers learned. Out Of
S25 investment Milo cleared $1,000, 1t
IS said. The profits were not large
enough, however. SO opium selling was
suggested.
In their search Of his apartment
customs inspectors found data showing
that their prisoner had sent large con
'gnments Of arms and ammunition