| Show I' THE OGDEN STANDARD EXA1VIINER— SUNDAY MORNING JULY 22 1934 Ud Breaks Si "J-- ' bu Decoolmg ft -- U nil a o uses 6 for And thereby hangs the inside an hitherto unpublished story of the stepsiaken in solving the puzzling case of the 7 m Alone" 'jr- "AVIV !T ruTvc r II gig v 1 - 1 B ' i f I y iV-- A 'A if - '5 W3 TheM iv ere hone too tleased Tvh en Dan in accom- v?aU(ed panied by companion both car Jr i aS-Si- r ' r rvhg guns fortunately a prise attack b- m tt i t t' trared to !a "Paul S - Hastily collecting' a police sergeant and a D: Elizabeth Smith Friedman government cr)planaly$t and (at right) a cops of one of the Harforan messages and the gun? suite of a fashionable apartment hotel s sur-g- ot prohibition officer to meet all contingencies the 'customs officer went to the hotel where it was ascertained that "Paul Smith" was in town and that he answered the description of Dan They sat doivn to wait : None of the oficers 'as it v ?0 had brought a happened gun along Thus they were none too happy A'hen Dan walked in followed by "a both tough companion them carrying guns barely concealed Dy ine folds of J their overcoats Flortunately a surprise attack got the guns Dans conriectioiji with the "Corkum" cohspir acyJ the stab- was stronger case LouIished by witnesses from isiana and he was taken back tried and convicted Let out on bail pending appeal he disappeared The chase began again combined with one for Bis Jim identified by this time as D an s partner Marvin James ClarkT : wy fi t V' i" Meanwhue customs men in Louisiana tried to hnd some way of tieing the liquor from the "I'm Al : V A burned ' contact boat to Dan VV--::: lit- i I and Jim At last an agent found behind the 'marsh hut bf a man who had been on that boat a book frbm a New Hampshire library After long investigation he learned that w5 a seaman from th schooner v ' Dan Hogan whose careful plans Tecre upset b) had had the book' m his bag clever detective rvork and lucky breaks the night the coritact boat was beached and through a ' Coast tvhosc a Alone" sinking card in the' book' le located "I'm by The schooner invesCustoms men a the tough job of Cuard cutter gave this seaman and thereby got evidenc : that Big Under the code name "Harfcur- her the left sapper TRanddl John Al ' tigation Jim also had been on the boat someone m iNew York had an Then on Dec 24 1931 some xdy telebeen cabling instructions to someone for in Belize British Honduras phoned the American consul in Que sec "Jim Clark's been arrested in New Orleans delivery "on position" at given elates of cer-- '' was uncovered at the places to which the liquor What's thecharge?" tain quanities of "Yicky Yedeb and Akbuz" had been shipped towns scattered through the Belize was a The consul long on the alert for Jim said but ' middle Atlantic states j It might be a legal transaction ' that he did not know' of it but would find out n source of bootleg liquor and the In early November the New Orleans Cus- He called the Customs Bureau in "vvlashington "on position" was suggestive toms Bureau turned its attention to another con' Mrs" Friedman translated the lot and sent Washington hadn't heard of it sp it called spiracy The chief had learned that an examNew Orleans — and found sure enough that a th em to the New Orleans customs chief messages sent through ination of man held on suspicion of bootleggjng7 under look at them brought him out of One short New Orleans in the previous year would give ' Urn i TL another name and about to be free3 was the (nnn uau h l rhair Wltn a W ooo t uai airauuu him some information he needed and subpoened Clark been joined by a State Department official as- Since so many were in codes other the lot released on" bail under c ose superJim was signed to the Tm Alone case and together than the known commercial ones he sent to vision while awaiting trial every inducement they had been going over a list of sailings of the Washington to borrow Mrs Elizabeth Smith to make him talk failed But he v as tricked "I'm Alone" as sent by the consul at Belize Friedman of the Coast Guard Intelligence Serinto revealing Dan's hiding place ancji Dan was The cabled sailing orders of "Harforan"" vice t arrested and the departures from Belize tallied perfectYedeb A short time afterward Big Jim was mysFRIEDMAN a retiring little person ly The ordered quantities of "Yicky in MRS looks much too young for the 1 8 and Akbuz" agreed with trie quantities of alteriously shot in a smuggler's meetii ' ' Louisiana cohol bourbon and malt in the manifests of the has to her credit years of important service she In June 1933 Dan Hogan w is brought field When "I'm Alone" finally the delivery dates set by! is a genius 'in the from Atlanta Penitentiary where he wars serv' services fail "Harforan" agreed with the railroad records cryptanalysts in other government ing a four and a half year term to stand trial ' ' of the'' liquor shipments from Abbeyville they send for her for the "I'm Alone" conspiracy ijhe missing she Setting ta' work with two stenographers seaman was the government's principal witness HPHE chief took the next train for New York sorted the great mass of messages and decoded ' Since he had been on the destroyed "Cheri" where the telegraph office supplied the dethem Some were simple enough— -- family and front which the liquor had been salvajged by the livery address of "Harforan" — the telegraph commercial communications others gave the incoast guard and could testify that itjwas smughotel After some n desk bf a But in addition formation she was seeking gled from the "I'm Alone" ooerafed bv the hotel it was discovered that mes- there was one set clearly separated from the Americans Dan Hoean and lim fclark the delivered to an unIt was sages to "Harforan" were others by the peculiarities of its code " government's circle of evidence was complete listed telephone number which further govern- this set that she tackled CopyrtMk 9t4 fer Erer jTFelr Magazine- - S ner iranstaiwn vj " By Katharine A Kellock r HERE no royal road to crime jde- for every gaudy break there is tection are 99 fruitless lead And there is no better illustration of this than in the story now available for the Crf firm inarch for the oDerators of the rumrunner "I'm Alone" sunk by' the U S Coast Cuard in the Gulf of Mexico on March 3rd 1929 Government agents spent thousands of hqurs in patierjt investigation on the case without getting a single clew success rested on a bitj of bureaucratic zeal on the part of a minor railof j an way employe on the chance examination old library book picked up in a great swamp and above all on the intelligence of a young woman jexamining a truckload of papers for another purpose Although the "I'm Alone" had never done a legal clay's work in her life she was a comparatively unimportant member of the mm fleet until she went down flying the Canadian fjag AVhen jthe Canadian government demanded imheavy reparations for her sinking it became perative to find her owners It wis the contention of the American government I that the schooner at the time she was challenged by the coast guard was well inside limits U such action as set by' the British-Americtreaty of 1924 that she was taking the k part in conspiracy to smuggle liquor into United States that she had ignored the challenge arid taken to the high seas with the cpast guard iri hot pursuit and that her sinking when h was overhauled was in accordance with in In addition the American ternational usage Eovernment had a strong belief that she was American owned Rut hoth contention and belie f reauire ifac- tual backing in a court of law - j consigned as rice hullings — he thought it contained polished rice which carries a higher freight rate He opened the car and found it full of liquor - A good deal upset he consulted the town constable- who advised him to send word to the prohibition agents They destroyed all but one case and notified the Customs Bureau The government agents descended on th shipper who being an amafeur at the business When he recovered :fell in a faint of terror he told his story - in the nearby town of Abbeyville A MAN had sent a stranger to him — known only as Jim — who had offered to pay him well to act as consignor of a carload of goods from his siding Times were bad and he had fallen Through him the men who had brought the' They too liquor for' loading were found were frightened and talked The man Jim had 'rv V A I-- i - - I - i I i i ""O " I f- - i PROOF : ? ' " " i : 1 1-- '- j Customs Bureau spent long weeks of search without unearthing a single lead tjo the If smuggling The first break cams at thetend ofj four months! The zealous agent of the little rail-roa station ot the oouthera ratine- at UueyL 4 L If d an LOU!Miia Dccainc suspicious oi a car 1 IllUlO! C 'zzz r — n : :: radio-telegra- I 1 ph -- ' t 'i U I i ' i-'- - f M 1 long-soug- ht j v The : rr well-know- ::-'- i spirators - J ii7J an of conspiracy was lacking jThe of the "I'm Alone" with cargoes of liqucr from foreign ports had been matters of mari ime record no port had records of dis' charge to come TTie nearest the coast guard had catching the discharge had been in December tun ma 11 hoats were sishted re ' Under pursuit the first was turning from her able to disappear up a bayou the second miss- inz the inlet had been beached and set afire w?nr lir frfw escapine into the tv rletti-nswamps! A government agent was able td res cue a ifew bottles of liquor before thejj ex- plodedjbut not a smuggler was caught to testify to its source After the "I'm Alone" was sunk and Can- ada demanded reparations the Customs Bureau at New Orleans was told to find the! con- V E I hired them to go out to the "Clark L Corkum take off liquor and bring it to the siding With Jim had been a man called Dan Through the penitent' shipper in Gueydan the government found the man in Abbeyville a citizen who likewise became ill from fear when he was approached The man Jim had come to him in the previous December with a promise of big pay for the use of his warehouse siding and he had sent off four carloads under false billings Through the loaders and boatmen it was established that the Abbeyville shipments had been taken from the "I'm Alone" ' Nothing There the investigation ' tagged well-respect- ed IHlIllllllllllllllllll- m- ce' i code-breaki- ng : ::- ( - - well-know- i!II!l)ll!tl!(llll!Dl!lllllllllllll!lli diffi--cultyjat'- the -'- iliillllllllllllUllllilifllllllllllllilllllilllllllllllllllllllllll iiiiiiiniiiiiiSiif |
