Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1922, Page 33

CHINESE SMUGGLING PLOT TOLD IN COURT Witness Says He Brought Orienta_ll to United States at $500 a Head. : PENSACOLA. Fla. NovemBer A The inner workingss a_the ernment contends fo bo opd WO the | most systematic organizations smug- ng Chinese aliens into the United States cver unearthed in the south were related by witnesses in faderal court yesterday in the case of 1Ko of y eleven alleged conspirators. Of the cleven deferdants . P, Moore and four others pleaded, Zuilty. | Mive of tne defendants were:granted| « severance. Those golng to trial| were Capt. Benjamin Edmundson, | jaunch _operator of Feasacolé. and.f Loule YVing, alias Quan Yicls of {Phil- | adelphia. The' government develuped - its case largely through 1. M. Rice, allas D. M. Richard ho testified | he was a traveling agenit in the busi- ness of arranging for the human car- zoes. He began his work in Cuba nhe sald, and continued with the cel tials to their final destination, Louie Ying's place, at 936 Race street, Pail- adelphla, where he coliccted his charges at $500 per head. He told of three different lots of Chinese that were smugiled during the latter part of 1921, \numbering | about thirty. 1Inftial arrangements.| Rice testWied. were made with a Loule | Ching. supposed to be tae Philadel- phia office’s Havana agent. The celes- i tlals were brought from Cuba, off the | shores of lorida, aboard Moure's! ., where, under cover | maller boats finally | v on the Florida coast, he | testified. WOMAN ABANDONS FAST PLAN TO REWIN HUSBAND : i Will Contest Suit for Divorce: in Courts. She Says, Following Ten-Day Hunger. By tiie Associated Press. SKOWHEGAN. Mre. Bertha Cole on a hunger November 24— . who went ember 13, with ¢ of regaining tier husband, who ! divorce. has ac- ! vepted the advice of neighbors and | broken heér ten-day fast. ' She said she would contest her husband's ac- tion fn arother manner—through the courts. A spoonful of milk_ administered | Tuesday night by a district nurse. food Mrs. Britton took 15, che claimed. | the affections of has brought suit for Aside from apper. :ppeared to be i good health. Mrs. | Britton formerly wus lLousekeeper in various hotels in the middle west. _TO TAKE UP DEBT FUNDING : British- Ghencellor of Exchequer | Coming to United States. By the Associated Press. - LONDO:! November 24. —A\.cordmg i to the present arrangements, the new |- chancellor of the exchequer, Stanley ! Baldwin, will start for the United | States on his debt funding mission on* - s December 26, accompanied by the’, governor of the bank of England. They hope to visit Canada at the vonclusion of thelr miesion in “uh ngton. Youx Batistaction Everything’ 1 bootlegging. and which was dismissed weaknesy, she | DISMISSED GRAND JURY | INDICTS SIX DRY AGENTS Three Corporations and 28 Persons Charged With Conspiracy in New York Bootleg Probe. By the Associated Press. NEW . YORK, November “24.—The | federal’ grand jury, which was im- paneled last summer to investigate last Monday. with a rebuke by Judge Foster, hus returned six blanket.in- dictments charging conspiracy to vio- late the prohibition law against three corporations and twenty-eight indi- viduals, .including six former prohi- Dition agents. At the timpe iof the jury's dismissal, { on ‘the ground that its foreman had violated “the court's instructions by making public a_letter to Secretary Melfon > of 1hé Treasury. Assistant United States Disteict Attorney Clark obtained Judge Foster's cousent for! the return of indictments found be ford the date the mlssive was glven out, November The letter to Sec- retary. Mellon criticized the handling of the prohti! enforcement office here. “Judge; Foster, ufter receiving the in- | dictments, omiited the usual custom | of thanking the jury. The main indfciment returned re- | latés to un alleged conspiracy to re- move from a local warehouse 4,900 { cases of whisky and 295 cases of champagne. WARD CHARGE STANDS. | Judge Declines to Dismiss Indict- ment for Murder. { WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. November | 24.—Supreme Court Justice Morschau. | sor has denfed a motion made last| Tuesday by lIsaac N. Mille, for dis-! missal of the indictment against Wal- ter S. Ward, wealthy baker's son, for murder in the first degree In connec- j tion with the death of Clarence Pe- | ters. 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