The Green Forest tribune., 1916-09-15
The profit on these ten cans


 was $225.
 We could have sold him a hundred cans as easily, with ten times the profit" said Peterson.
 In New York the smugglers called upon a Doctor Yen, in Pell street. one of the important men in Chinatown He stated that he was able to buy opium at $27.50. The smugglers in- sisted on $30. After much haggling 20 cans were sold at $2S.50 Here was a profit of $470.
 But Doctor Yen was to be counseled on much more important matter. He was to be told of the proposal to purchase boat for the opium traffic. He was to be asked to guarantee the purchase of large amounts of opium. The old Chinaman became greatly excited. He ran to his safe and came back with $10,000 in currency. He was willing to put up this money for its value in opium at S27.50 a can as soon as delivered. When that was gone there would be other money. He alone would make the owners of the boat rich
 In Boston was the actual headquar- ters of Peterson and Flavot A Jew l by the name of Ferren was their finan- cial backer It was Ferren who had put them into the business. When l Ferren was told of the proposed en- terprise he would not at first listen to 1 it. He would have to be shown that this MT. Gard was on the level There were too many eyes watching for opium.
 Peterson told of the credentials, and finally succeeded in convincing him that Gard was what he purported to be and, gaining confidence as the plan | developed, the Jew finally became en- thusiastic. In the end he vied with Doctor Yen in his anxiety to purchase unlimited opium
 Gradually Gard granted that he was convinced of the feasibility of the scheme, if he were shown the possi- bility of getting the schooner into the states. It was at this point that he was introduced to one Captain Bailey, who had, some years before, figured in a very sensational attempt at the in troduction of Chinamen from Canada and their landing at New Haven. Bailey had been caught, had served 9 term in prison, and, since his libera- tion was running fish stand in Bos- ton market
 But Bailey knew all the coves in the | ho int yIrhiph a boat might put. He knew every dock where she might tie up and the time that must pass thereafter before it would be safe to put his men ashore. Operating from Jamaica there was none of the danger into which he had run in bringing Orientals from Canada.
 Eventually the papers were drawn setting forth conditions under which all these men entered into a partner ship in this smuggling venture. Gard Ferren. Peterson, Flavot and Bailey had all signed, and Gard had gone tC New York to get the signature of Doc tor Yen. The district attorneys office in Boston was prepared for the arrests when the papers should finally bt signed. When Doctor Yen affixed hi signature Gard signaled an associat s.-5S ,;. ',, I. E dclOsS lh9 Hal ohpf pfs'.< <zot --- c'' ---ss He sent the flash to Boston and tn trap was sprung.
 So were all the inside facts of thi most aggravating system of smugglini revealed With these facts in hand the government had little diffic culty il breaking up a system that had beer causing lot of trouble for a decade
 So, also, was one of the most com plete and successful cases of ropinG that any of the government agents had ever attempted carried to a sue cessful termination.
 Peterson and Flavot were convicted and sent to prison The other men were eventually liberated, because it could not be shown that they had act ually committed the crime of snug gling. Their complicity in a conspir- acy to smuggle at some time in the future did not sufficiently impress the jury as to result in a conviction. But the acquitted men will be so closely watched that their opportunities for wrongdoing will, in the future, be few