People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — AS JACKS-IN-A-BOX. [ARTICLE]

AS JACKS-IN-A-BOX.

Chlnanir.i Smuggled Arrow the Border : n Coining. Montreal. Qu -.. April 24.—There Is great excitement in Chinese colony because the s.-home of a gang of smugglers who brought about fifty Chinamen int< the Unit ’d States by means of coffins and women's clothes, has been exposed. Sam Keefi the head of the colony, and archsmuggler of human and other forbidden articles of import, smiled as he denied any personal j knowledge of the affair, but there is lio ! doubt many of the men passe i I through here. The customs olficials j have traced the gang and it is expected j important arrests will be made soon, j Though the c •!!-ctor here refuses to talk it is well known that several "specials" have gone to St. John, N. B. There is another gang, however, which the officials appear to be after and which operated by a more direct route. T’nir specialties are the smuggling of phenacetine, which has taken the place of opium, because opium now gives an exceedingly small profit.