Taybank Case Gang and Others Sentenced: Long Gaol Terms: Further Seizures Here and in Hongkong "You can't get the grim warning. sounded by the American Government to those who trate in Chinese narcotics across the broad sweep of the Pacific. "And in Fecent months Uncle Sam has dealt Tulhlese Justice to many of the lead= fers on his own side of the ocean—men and women who have all been Gealing in dope that has" passed through Shangh:
The campaign goes on, under the etsonal supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, jun, who is determined to Break the back of the insidious trame.
already well known what the Federal forces have accomplished in the Wend!-Brandstatter "case and now may be added what has happened in America in recent weeks fo men and women who have helped distribute Shanghai opium, morphine: and heroin consignments in that country. Some of the most vital facts are as follows:—
While the my. Taybenk, which is pow back in this port, was in New York harbour on March, Federal agents went on board and seized 600 five-tael tins of prepared smoking-opium secreted below decks. Four members of the crew were arrested: Ah Nan, Chinese, carpenter; echo! Ben Hassan," Malayan, - boatswain; Omar Ben Gaul, Malayan, second Boatswain, and Sainee Ben Rasep, Malayan, storekeeper. Arrested also were one Willie Bonsnzi, contact man between the crew and the New York consignees of the opium, and two Fiver' boat-men, Dominic and Tisio Buda, brothers, who were running, pareotles between ships and. the shore, Bonanzi has now been con~ Wieted and sentenced to ten years prison and a fine of US. $5,000, while Omar Ben Gan! was given'a term of four years, the Chinese three and a halt years, and the boatswain and storekeeper shorter terms, The Buda brothers will be sentenced on May 3 agents and those who did not sell were positively implicated in the trail, "The delfeate andi dangerous work of buying the evidence from the Various dealers occupied the agents for a. period of six. months, from uly to December, 1036," When a first attempt to arrest one of the tramekfers, one Johnnie Walker, was made he' was in the act of delivering a quantity of heroin to another man. He drew pistol, seriously wounded tone of the agents and escaped after running "another down with his motor-car,. He was later apprehend-fed and it was his good fortune that the agent "he shot lived to testify against him. shat Gang Caught 'The determination of tie American authorities to treat no: sotie smug: glers with the almost severity was Manifested last' December" already When the Federal Court in New York sentenced two transatlantic smugglers to forty and 25 years, respectively and imposed fines of U.S. $40,000 and 'U.S, $48,000 on them. The men were Morris Schatz and Serafino Mancuso and. with them were arrested nine their assistants, all of whom were 'The narcotic seizures on the basis of which the Schatz band was cap-ured' all were made in New' York harbour, og in the Taybank case, "On October' 13, Inst, more than "Atty pounds of crude opium were found in the s. New York and later that month 37 pounds in the Tie de France, The largest haul was made on board the s, Manhatian on November 2, 106 pounds of crude opium being confgeaied, and y week later 22 ounces of heroin were discovered in the Normandie, The Far East again was described as the place of origin, Serafino Mancuso, one of the two principals in the, Schatz gang, 15. a Brother of Salvatore Mancuso, who in 1085 was sentenced at Now York
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