The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-02
ALLEGED
HEAD OF Ring
Still IN CUBA
Captain Bennie Edmundson
Gives Bond For Himself And
Boat BENJAMIN RE"
CHARLIE HONG is
CAUGHT IN ALABAMA
Wealthy ApalachicOla Chinaman
and Railway Conductor Also
Been Arrested.

rive OF the six persons named in
the indictments charging conspiracy to
smuggle Cinnamon and liquor into this
country from Cuba which were mada
public Monday afternoon, have been
arrested and are either in Jail or un-
der bond, Assistant District ATTORNEY
George Earl Hoffman stated late last
night
Already Under Bond.
T. T. Moore, of Crestview, who is
mentioned as the head of the aIepad
smuggling operations is at present :,
Havana Cuba, officials say, along with
William Lindsay, captain of Moore.
schooner, the Success, and the other
negro Isom Underwood. who is
member of the crew of the suooa..
Inc government, however, is ernrass-
ths no anxiety over Moore's absence
from the United States for he 10 al
ready under a 81. 500 bond on ano,,,a,.
cnarge OF Chinese smuggling. and vii,
De obtained at the proper n1or,e,,. :.
was stated -
Lindsay Held In Cuba.
Lindsay was required tn ei,,o ho,.s
Iolowlng the seizure Of the sucoa.a
LOT attempting to defraud the C,,,bav,
custom house, it is reported. II ;g
oerstood that no attempt will he n,o5o
10 bring Lindsay and Underuvoo, -.
TO this country until the case is die
posed of in Cuba. The Success me-.
"ithout any flag to denote its nation
aIlty when seized, the report saws
sowIes Makes Arrests
Capt. Bennie Edmundsor o,,,,.
OF the Benjamin RE, which was sei1es
under libel filed by the federal di.~
.r4ct attorneys office immediately sf-
ter the indictments were made nI,hIir
appeared at the government building
Yesterday and gave a $1,000 bond for
hlmsef and $1,500 for his boat. Tho
Jane the other speed boat Iibelled ia
stlll held by United States Marshal
Peter H. Miller.
deputy Marshal Bowles, of Marian
na' who has been looking after the ar
rests down around ApalachicoIa. has
arrested both Charlie Suey, the veal
thy Chlnaman of Apalachicola. and G.
Z. Williams, conductor on the Ana
lach1cola Northern Railroad. and they
are now under $1,000 bonds each. VIII
lams is alleged to have used his po-
sition as conductor aboard the train
operating out of Apalachicola to aid
the conspiracy. The specific instance
named in the indictment is when six
Celestials are said to have been load
ed onto the train for passage to Phila-
delphia.
Cinnamon Held Three Hours.
Although no mention of the fact is
made in the indictment, it is said that
these six Chinamen We're arrested by
the city authorities at Climax, Ga, held
for about three hours, and then re-
leased because the officer who arrested
them was unfamiliar with the law in
regard to Chinese. He was not sure
that he had the right to hold them.
He released them, SO officials say.
about an hour before the train pulled
out for the north and they boarded it.
Hong Also Arrested.
Charlie Hong, the second Apalachi-
cola Chinaman named, was arrested.
in Eufaula, Ala, yesterday afternoon
after considerable telegraphic commu-
nication between Deputy Bowles down
near Apalachicola, the district attor-
ney's office here, and the Alabama au-
thorities. The local officials had in
formation Monday night that Hong
had slipped out of Florida and that he
was in Eufaula but it was not until
Yesterday that he was located. He In
low in jail.
B. churehweII Not Ex-Deputy.
/. G. Churchwell, OF Crestview, who
in reality was deputy sheriff under
Ex- Sheriff B. H. Sutton, named as one
Of the principal parties in the alleged
told Deputy Marshal Nc
MILAN yesterday morning over long
distance telephone that B. Churchwell,
also named and his brother, was never
4 deputy sheriff. This is stated so
hat the positions of the two may not
be confused; B. Churchwell was the
1ne indicted.
Neither Churchwell. Sutton, nor Per-
lue have been arrested yet. LouiSI
Ying, alias Quan Yick. the Phila6
ohia Chinaman, now under $1,000
makes the fifth person arreste
Miller the negro taxi driver