Impudent Use of Oflicial's Car for Opium Smuggling The wiles of the Chinese crook are innumerable and he appears to be never at a loss where resourcefulness is required. Thus, with the police net closing ever more tightly around opium smugglers and the running of supplies becoming more difficult every day—and the business consequently growing more remunerative—new plans have had to be thought out. One genius decided that the police would be less watchful nearer home, arguing, of course, on an old principle.
The result of this reasoning was that Captain E. I. M. Barrett's chauffeur called for his car about 2 o'clock last Friday morning and not unnaturally was allowed to take it out, fox police officers have to go out at all sorts of hours. Something, however, went. wrong in his calculations, for the car was held up half an hour later, on Yangtszepoo Road, by a Chinese detective and $3,000 worth of opium found in it. The chauffettr got away, leaving his uniform cap and badge behind.
The police are now wondering how often this, or a similar trick, as been played on them. Last: Friday morning, all the police chauf-fours were confined to quarters whilst an investigation was made.
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