Evening star., 1929-06-30
INDIANS SLIP PAST
BORDER PATROLS
Cunning of Iroquois Boot
logger Is Problem for U. S.
Liquor Agents.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROUSES POINT, N. Y. June 2s.-
The Iroquois Indian is the slipperiest
of bootleggers. There are 1000 of them
I'D here on the border, and they car
crawl. swim or canoe through q patrol
infested wilderness which would be hn-
pervious to anything else but an eel
and they do.
1--WE catch hundreds of them" said
J. p. Tulloch, collector for the st. Law
renee district No. Z, here today, but
they keep on squhming through.
IN THE Deer Slayer" James Fenni-
more Cooper intimated that the Red
skins knew their way about in these
woods, and the surviving few hunored
have lived to show what they can 40
This pad of moccasined foot across the
border makes the international repre-
sentation in rum running pretty nearly
complete.
A Neat Overlapping.
The trade has attained its cosrnopoli-
tan character through neat overlap
ping of booze and immigrant smuggling
AS explained by Mr.. Tulloch and others
It works this way: An immigrant of al
most any nationality, and perhaps
knowing no English, gets across the
border and gets lost in the woods. Be-
ing abandoned by the smuggler as soon
as he gets on this side, he falls in with
some scout for the rum runners, who
knows everything which goes on in the
woods, almost before it happens. lte
is picked up taken back to the other
side and serves an apprenticeship In
rum running After he learns to drive
a car, he begins taking loads across
fnr 'u-hich he 0ptS 911 load
I'VE find an increasing number
among our pickups, and that's how II
happens" said Mr.. Tulloch.
The restriction of immigration gave
the border authorities new problem
with a steady increasing drive at the
boundary. Increases In tariffs, espe-
cially the recent ones, have burdeneo
the customs men with more illicit carry.
ing to watch. The booze battle, piled
on this. has made the customs job
something like trying to be train dis
patcher, trap drummer and rope skip
per all at once. 4a.Aaaex 1 IL
S1O-Mile Frontier.
And, Just to keep the border watch
men from getting bored the Govern
nent has issued orders that the same
forms must be prepared for the seizure
of one bottle of beer as for a 81 ZOO, ,00C
III
ting rheumatism, lying all night in q
swamp, they have to spend the day get.
ting writer's cramp.
It has perhaps not been generally
realized, but the fact Is that, during
the last decade, the combination oi
surnptuary legislation, restriction Of i'm
migration and higher tariffs, ha!
brought an aggravated border situation
which goes far beyond the problem o.
the itching trigger finger.
This district extends westward to thu
Oswego County line on Lake Ontario
It has $50 miles Of frontier and Isl
miles of lake front. There are 100 mer
to guard this 5l0 miles Of land ant
water.
"The big war In Detroit Is drivin,
the Detroit gangs over this way" salt
Mr.. Tulloch. They have reguia
mosquito fleets of little boats and the,
come swarming across the st. Lawrence
and across the lake In everything ex
cept rubber boots. They tried ever,
dodge anybody ever heard of. And wl1er
we nail them on one thing, they scheme
up something else.
"At that I think the combination O.
the Jones law and the Baumes law /,
beginning to work in this district. MANY
OF these runners already have records
and now that the Jones law has made
their offense felony, they are apt Il
nno that dash across the border MAY
take them dangerously near q lift
sentence.
(CopyTisht, 1922