People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — TRUSTS BETRAYED. [ARTICLE]

TRUSTS BETRAYED.

Customs Inspectors in the State of Washington Detected in Aiding Smugglers. Washington, June 21.—The official heads of Patrick H. Winston, United States attorney; Thomas R. Brown, United States marshal; Andrew Watson, United States collector at Port Townsend; C. J. Mulkey, United States special agent, and six special inspectors of customs in the Puget Sound district, all in the state of Washington, have fallen into the official hopper as the result of reports made to Secretary Carlisle by special treasury agents. These officials, it is charged by the reports received, have been doing a wholesale business for several years in connection with private parties in Victoria, B. C., in smuggling in Chinese by means of fraudulent certificates, and in permitting opium smuggling either by connivance or otherwise. More than two months ago Agents Wood and Lewis, new men from the east, were detailed to secretly investigate these alleged frauds. Uninfluenced by local surroundings or affiliations they went to work and unearthed what is regarded here as one of the greatest conspiracies in which government officials were ever implicated. Other removals are yet to come, and the matter in due course of time will find its way into the courts.