Show u. u S. S BARES GIANT PLOT IN CHINESE SMUGGLING i By Special News Service SAN FRANCISCO July 21 Evl Evi Evidence dence of at an astounding nature revealing completely the the- existence ot of ota ofa a a. gigantic Chinese smuggling smuggling ring that for so long has flourished inthe Inthe in inthe the United States Immigration service service service ser ser- vice at this port is in possession of government Inquisitors sent seat to San Francisco by President Wilson A federal grand jury Investigation has been ordered by Washington Raids made recently by Assistant United States Attorney General John B. B Dinsmore on three stores and a t 1 residence in Chinatown and on an apartment In Berkeley were followed Immediately by the suspension from the immigration department of J. J II Ir McCall member of the Angel Island board of examining inspectors Inspector Inspector In In- Robert Sherrard of ot Lumas Wash succeeds McCall FULL EVIDENCE BARED Coincidentally it became known that Dinsmore Dinamore had discovered In tho the places he raided all the evidence he had hoped to obtain to tomake make tam tain the success of his inquiry into i tho the Immigration situation here liere I Indictments of prominent men who I have been the leaders pf a smuggling ring the minimum profits of which I Iare are estimated by Dinsmore to have 1 been a year are authoritatively predicted In the Chinatown stores and th the residence in Berkeley whose owners owner's identity will not be publicly announced an an- flounced at this time Assistant Attorney At At- torney General Dinsmore and a squad of his agents found enough material evidence against the immigration smuggling gang to fill a trunk The Tho whereabouts of the incriminatIng ing tug evidence mostly in documentary form fonn was told to the government authorities au au- nu- nu by a Chinaman now in custody cus ens- tody who was one of the oriental leaders of the ring of smugglers This Chinaman revealed the names of five co conspirators coconspirators and three local attorneys The names of the accused lawyers are withheld They are law practitioners whose clientele is almost Clinese 1 A has been put upon the head of the informer and he Is being carefully carefully care care- I fully guarded in a neighboring city by an agent of the government DOCUMENTS PRO PROVE PROE E GUILT Dinsmore has uncovered documents showing in great detail the intricate workings of the men who have engaged engaged en en- in the business of bringing Chinese Chi tChi nese unlawfully into this this' country How elaborate was the system Is indicated by bj the fact that the rin ring i maintains in a school In which for an exorbitant fee China men desirous of the entering the United States Illegally are carefully coached put through a term of training designed de lIe- signed to fit them to match their wits wit and false certificates of entry against any and all an Immigration officials who might challenge their right to reside in this country A large quantity of Chinese records stolen stoler from the vaults on Angel island and the discovery fo the tile loss of which I resulted In the suspension and and- dismissal dismissal dismissal dis dis- dis- dis I missal of more than a dozen immigration tion department officials were found by Dinsmore in his raids The assistant United States attorney attorney attar ney general has been in San Francisco Fran cisco four months conducting an Investigation in in- He was here a year ago on a similar mission So important did President Wilson consider the work of cleaning up Angel island that he had United States Attorney General Gregory lend Dinsmore Dinamore to the d department of labor which has control control control con con- of the immigration service Dinsmore succeeded In ill getting the tho first evidence of the crimes that have havo been committed at Angel island by bv having his own men secretly assigned to duty there One of these men finally was promoted to the detention shed and it was there he unearthed the gi gigantic conspiracy that has as been carried on successfully for years COACHING LETTER I This agent came into possession possession- ot of what Is termed a coaching letter j i which Is furnished to all aU seeking unlawful entry Such a lettel letter letter let let- I ter tel contains every bit of Information a Chinaman attempting to come hereunder hero here under a false name and with forged certificates would have to know In order to deceive Immigration officials Such coaching letters compiled here and In China are the text books of the tile students In n the school at kong Hon where Chinese male and female are prepared for their smuggling smuggling smug smug- gling venture It In In the Berkeley house which he lie entered Dinsmore came upon a large number of these letters and an exact exact exact ex ex- ex- ex act reproduction of the seal of the government of China which seal must be on all entry certificates and documents doc doe a Chinaman must have In order to be admitted to the United States Also Dinsmore fOund scores of Chinese Chinese Chi nese nose From the confession ot the Chinese ringleader he lie arrested knew that those queues are used b by Chinese with shaved heads attempting to come here who have represented themselves to be a Chinaman who when he was registered regis regis- tercel wore a a. queue I UNBELIEVABLE STORY The story of the tho operations of ot the smuggling sing ring Is almost an unbelievable unbelievable able ablo one Chapters of it became known w when h en McCall McCan was wa-s suspended yesterday HeIs Heis He Ho Hois is the third member of at the AnJel Angel Island examining board to be dismissed dis dis- missed The Tho others are William WilHam T. T Heitman Heltman and William M. M Gassaway At his home in Oakland 21 Lake street last night McCall McCan was was on the verge of a collapse He arrived arnved athis athis at athis his residence at 9 30 He denied hI his identity but when a child the son of ot ofa ota ofa a neighbor addressed him hIm as Mr McCall McCall Mc Me- Call CaU the suspected official broke down With tears In ills his eyes he pleaded Please dont don't say anything now Please let me alone I am confident everything will win come out all an right McCall McCan then entered his home an and 1 refused to answer a ring of ot the door door- bell The raids conducted by Dinsmore were on tele telegraphic orders from Washington The assistant United States attorney general has been actIng act- act In Ing Independent of riny any local federal officials It Is known that the government government government gov gov- will name a a. special prosecutor prose to handle the Immigration scandal scandal scandal scan scan- dal before the grand Jury and to conduct conduct con con- duct the criminal prosecutions which will win follow Dinsmore probably will willbe willbe be the tIle appointee I As revealed by the evi oW the possession of the government the story of how Chinese have been smuggled smuggled smug smug- Into California Is this this' When WIlen a 3 who has established established a in this country h be he J I and his children 11 are entitled ed to enter the United States at any time Frequently Frequently Fre Fre- Chinese lawfully entitled to reside here have returned to China with their then families In most cases the head of the family never comes back But But he Is given in the event that he ho does doCS care to return a certificate with his ls attached and bearing information of a descriptive character concerning him BIG BUSINESS The large number of who remained in China after leaving here offered Immense possibilities to the smuggling ring So white men and orientals established here hero a system by ly which hundreds ot of Chinese unlawfully unlawfully un un- un- un lawfully l havo have been brought into this country The system was this Officials at Angel island agents and In sorTie some cases leaders of the ring stole from the vaults of the tho immigration immigration im im- migration department records bearing on Chinese entitled to entry who had gone back to China Many of these records s were kept many were copied Dinsmore found in his raids a large number of the original records The ring with the tho stolen records before it would select the name ofa of ofa a Chinaman who had returned home It would Investigate fully to determine determine determine deter deter- mine if he still lived lIved had any Intention intention tion of coming back here nere and ami it If he had any children Say it was learned that this certain Chinaman was dead and had hall left a son who was born In Inthis Inthis inthis this country The ring next would find a Chinaman desirous of ot coming to this country who resembled somewhat some ame somewhat what the son of the dead man Having hay Hav lug ing found such a Chinaman th tha ring ringwould ringwould ringwould would begin to school him CAREFUL PREPARATION A coaching letter would bo le pre pro oared Dared It would contain the exact data given by the dead lead Chinaman to the Immigration officials It wO would ld I give the facts as to his birth his marriage marriage marriage mar mar- complete data concerning the birth hirth of his son and intimate family secrets which the son of the Chinaman Chinaman China China- man might reasonably be expected t to know If this Chinaman had returned to a certain town in n northern China say agents of the ring would gather information information information in in- formation which would enable the theman theman theman man who posed as his son to tell in answer to questions put to him by immigration officials what is the population population pop pop- population of the town who its officials and prominent citizens are what the of prominent buildings are and names where they are situated who lila JIb fathers r relatives and friends are arc e etc c. c MODUS OPERANDI OPERAND I Now if it the man who was to pose as the son of the dead Chinaman In question had the means he be could go goto goI goto there and I to the school in the coaching letter in his case book would be given him as his text to But If the Impostor were unable attend the school and came here to In take his chances on getting through the manipulation of or the ring he generally was was' r his his coaching letter upon slipped being arrival here or while ho he was immigration im ha- held In the detention shed of the mi migration ration service The letter lette would be in the dialect of his own people the dialect of the the Chinese province from which he hailed This letter he would commit commit com corn by to being protected mit memory inside immigration officials grafting rafting to guard the ring whose duty it was then against Just such things And would bo ho able glibly and promptly he to Io he had memorized wen well ell provided question tho the immigration im almost any answer him migration board might put to LETTERS ARE OBTAINED from It was one of these letters of DInsmores DInsmore's men obtained from Irom Iroma froma one shed Chinaman in the detention a 3 Just after it had bad been handed to him by an agent of the ring that gave Dinsmore Dinamore his start Thereafter with the aid of the postoffice department intercepted correspondence he lag ing between members of tho the ring here and In China Some of this correspondence correspondence corre cone Dinsmore himself answered answered an an- making it appear the letter lettel came from froth the ring In this way he to was VIS able to carry carryon on negotiations such an extent that several unsuspecting ing Chinese arrived here from China confident of being smuggled in only to find that correspondence paving the way for them had been written not by the agents of the ring in San Francisco but bu by Dinsmore In this way Dinsmore obtained several several sev sev- Information Information information In In- eral oral witnesses and much valuable formation which will be used In the federal grand Jury investigation |