Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — The Cunning Chinee. [ARTICLE]

The Cunning Chinee.

Han Francisco Chronicle A new Chinese trick* has been discovered. A few days since, on the arrival of a vessel from Honolulu, containing several cases of shoes that had been shipped to that port by some Chinese house in San Francisco, and sent back condemned by the consignees, the custom house officials were curious to know the cause, and this curiosity prompted them to open the cases, when an ingenious plan was discovered to smuggle opium into that port through the heels of the “condemned” shoes. The heels, at a glance, appeared natural and properly made, out by pulling out a nail or two, ana removing one thickness of leather, a hole, occupying nearly the whole size of the heel, was found, in which opium had been placed to introduce in the Hawailian market. The “condemned” business was a part of the programme, and the shoes were returned, evidently to be reloaded and forwarded again to that port.