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Submitted by stevenl on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 5:02pm.
As I was working on an unrelated problem which was bibliographic in nature, I stumbled across the following article in the Dec. 30, 1890 Spokane Falls Review: NOTORIOUS SMUGGLER Captured While Driving a Laundry Wagon THE HERO OF MANY ESCAPADES He Is Supposed to Be the High Chief Opium Smuggler in the Northwest Olympia, Dec. 29. -- Deputy Inspector Coblenz to-day arrested the noted opium smuggler, Labelle, for whom the government officials have been searching for a year past. He has been in Olympia the past six months driving a laundry wagon. While talking to a city marshal to-day the inspector happened to refer to Labelle, and the marshal looked him up immediately and arrested him while on the wagon. He did not show the least excitement, and willingly went with the officer. He was shackled and taken to Tacoma. Labelle is the leader of a gang and one of the boldest in the business, and always smuggles by the wholesale. About a year ago he shipped a piano box full to Portland and was arrested. On the way back, while the train was going at a good speed, Labelle jumped and escaped. The train backed and the officers expected to find him dead, but he had disappeared. The government then instituted special search and shadowed him in British Columbia. He started with a quantity of opium in a sailboat and officials overtook him. As they boarded one side of the boat Labelle jumped into the bay and that was the last seen of him. While at Victoria he lived in the best style in the finest hotel. A month or so ago he was away for about one week, and it supposed he then assisted in landing 400 pounds of opium near Oyster bay, fourteen miles from here. Recently he purchased the White Wings, the largest sail boat here, with which to assist his business. His room was searched, but nothing was found to indicate his operations. There was a large model of a boat, beautifully constructed to attain high speed, in his room. He is supposed to have supplied the Chinese population here, and to have planned numerous smuggling operations for the sound.
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Submitted by wilson on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 6:30pm.