The News and Observer VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 75. TTME [LAMEST ©DOBSaDU&TDfIDK] ©E ARTS' GTOma ©AG3OQJKIA ©AD(LT n CHEATED UNCLE SAM A STARTLING STORY OF THE FRAUDULENT EVASION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES. THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS STOLEN. A Brlc-a-lirac Dealer in New York Systematically Evades Payment ot Caatoms Duties for Fifteen Years—An Employe W ho Had Been Discharged for Drunkenness Turns Informer- Exact Amount of the Swindle Not Yet Known—Others Suspected. New York, April 19.—One of the most startling stories of fraudulent evasion of customs duties which has developed in the port of New York for years, came to light today. It involves the name of one of the best known brie a brae dealers in the country and implicates possibly one or more cus toms employes who have until now en joyed the unlimited confidence of the col lector of the port and the heads of the various departments. The customs offi cials have not been so disturbed for a long time, and for the last two weeks a thorough, unremitting investigation of the matter has been going on. The discovery of the frauds came from the former Secretary and more recently, head salesman of the bouse of O. L Sypher & Co , of sth avenue and 20th street. The informer is L. H. Todd, who, while the concern was a corpora tion, acted as its secretay. but who for the la-t year or so, since the corporation dissolved, has been its head salesman. Todd was discharged January last, it is said, for drunkenness. Two weeks ago he appeared at Collector KUbreth’s office, and astot: n led t'. at offi i d with the information. His statements, however, have since been verified, and with the assistance of Col. Phelps, of the Law Departmint, and Appraiser Vunn, the customs authorities have gath ered indisputable evidence that Todd’s statements are true and ttat O. L. Sypher & Co. have profited to the extent of many thousands of dollars during tbe last fifteen years at the ex pense of the customs and that which looks like collusion with oDe or more customs employees. Todd claims that in the last, fifteen years Sypher has been importing into the port brie a brae, tapestry, antiques, artistic silver articles and relics at a rate of duty abnormally be low their proper valuation, and cities numberless importations of artistic and valuable silver articles from Great Brit ain, including trays, living cups, valua ble table pieces and other silver articles which were invoiced as “Old Silver” and valued at four shillings and six pence a pound. The customs officials did not receive a detailed invoice of the importations as the whole consignment was invariably in a lump as“old silver.” Sypher would, however, receive a detailed invoice, and in nearly all cases, the true value of these articles would be 10 or 12 times as great as the amount specified in the cus toms invoice. Most of the silver ware passed through the second division of the appraiser’s department in which Cyrus A Stevens was assistant appraiser. Eugene Honeywell, who has been in the customs service 15 years, is the man through whose hands the Sypher pro perty passed and upon whose head row falls the suspicion that Sypher was as sisted in swindling the customs by one inside the service. Collector Kilbreth has always had im plicit confidence in this official whom he describes as absolutely above suspicion until it is clearly proven that he is guil ty, The case has many ramifications and hints at smuggling, and the impli cation of steamship employees is hinted Sypher 1a s made strenuous efforts to make light of the charges. Ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, his counsel, assured the collector that Sypher would be ready when called upon to meet the charges. The amount of money out of which the government has been swindled will run into the hundred thousand dollars, but the customs authorities are not now in a position to state the exact amount. PARNELL’S MOTHER DYING. She was Robbed and Then Knocked Senseless by a Footpad. Bordenton, N. J. April 19 —M:s. Delia Parnell, mother ot Charles Stewart Parnell was assulted by a footpad last night near the railroad station and rob bed of a small amouut of money. She screamed for help when attacked and the th es ku* eked her senseless. She is seriously injured and the doctors say she may die. She is over 80 years (f age. She had walked from her home to the village to pet a check cashed and was probably ollowed by the villian w o robbed h r. THE PLAGUE IN CHINA. A General Outbreak ol it Expected hi Any Time. Hong Kong, April 19.— Many deaths are reported in Macoa, in the Portuguese settlement of China at the mouth of the Canon River, as the result of the plague which made its appearance there a short time ago. The Governor of Hong Kong has re fused to establish a quarantine against the infected region, and what are called the unofficial members of the Sanitary Board have resigned. The general feel ing is that an outbreak of the plague here is probable at any time. FREE SILVER IN THE WEST. Claimed That Gen. Black is About to Become a Bimetalist. Special to the News and Observer. Washington, D. C., April 19. Some of those who usually know the inside of political affairs say that the statement that Gen. John C. Black, of Illinois, came to see the President to re ceive advice as to the best way of com batting the free silver idea, is all a mis take. These people say that Gen. Black came to inform the President that the free silver sentiment in Illinois had be come a tidal wave, whose sweeping pro gress could neither be stemmed nor di rected into another channel. It is al ledged that he intimated the unavert able triumph of this doctrine in his State, estimating that two thirds of the Demo cratic party now adhered to its princi ples. In addition to this rather startling statement, it is announced on seemingly good authority that Gen. Black seriously contemplates casting his lot with those of his party who are for bimetalism. It is alleged that he is him Self actually con sidering the propriety of a formal decla ration in favor of rehabilitating the white metal. * * * Once in a while, writes the Washing ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Record, President Cleveland gets by Mr. Thurber, and invades the room occupied by the subordinate clerks in the White House. Oq one of these occasions re cently he went aud stood looking down at the work which one of the clerks was doing. The man at work never looked up. He thought it was one of the other clerks who occasionally bothered him. “What the devil do you want?” he asked. There was no response. The other clerks gasped for breath. A death-like stillness prevailed aud the working clerk looked up to meeta smile on the counten ance of the President. In time an ex planation followed, but it will be a long time before that White House clerk will ask a like question until he is dead sure of the man he is ta king to. * * * Consul General Crittenden, of the City of Mexico, is at home on leave. He says that Senator Ransom has been sick nearly all the time since his arrival in Mexico. His friends here regard his re ceptiou by Diaz as evidence that he is well again. * * * All the Virginians here, except the big politiciani, are gratified that the Presid ent appointed Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to the vacant position of collector of Internal Revenue. The members of Congress wauted to select a man but the Presid ent aced without waiting for them to move. The Star says that gossips says the President made the appointment in order to have one prominent leader in a position to advocate his financial policy. Well informed people take no stock in this talk. Early iu the administrati n, the President offered Gen. Lee an impor tant foreign appointment. At that time Gen. Lee expected to be elected United States Senator from Virginia and de dined. Now the President, anxious to give him a position, gives him the best ne has at his disposals. ♦ * * Hon. F. A. Woodard recommends Bassett as postmaster at Rocky Mount, and ex Congressman Bunn recommend? A, G Wilcox. Half of Rocky Mount is in Mr. Woodard’s district (Edgecombe), and the other half (Nash) iu Mr. Bunn’s old district, iach claim the right to name the new appointee. Mr. Bunn's uominee, the late Bennett Bunn, was appointed. * * * Mr. Paul C. Humphrey, formerly of Gold'boro, is connected with the Na tional Seed Company. They were do ng a thriving business until the Pos’office Department decided that their business was too much like a lottery, and ex elud' d their letters trorn the mail. * * * Mr. T. M. Kobertsou, of the Census office, has returned from a trip to Liberty, Randolph county. His family have goue there to remain until the fall. Mr. Robertsor, and oth r North Carolinians here expect to be in Raleigh at the un vieling of the Confederate monument on tae 20th of May. DEATH CLAIMS A VICTIM. A Farmer Caught in a Revolving Shaft and Killed. Special to the News and Observer. Winston, N. C , April 19 At Cross Roads Church, Davie county, yesterday Lee Wooten, a good farmer, vas standing near a saw mill. One end of a shawl, which he had on, was caught in a revolving shari, throwing Mr. w’oo'en cn the same. He was whirled around aud terriby bruised and mangled. He died in a few minutes after the machinery was stopped. TWO WORKMEN KILLED. 8- veral Others W ere Injured and Two ol Them Fatally. Chicago, April 19 - Four iron beams, comprising the hoisting apparatus at the Chicago Ship building Company’s yards at South Chicago, fell this morning to the deck of a steel steamer in course of construction, and on which a number of men were at work. Two of them, Patrick Harvey aud Henry Blake, were instantly killed, and several others in jured, two of them, John Conly and J. J. Hand, fatally. The hoisting apparatus was used in the construction of the steel steamer. This morning one of the ropes broke, holding up the apparatus, causing the main stays to give way and the heavy beams to fall on tbe steamer’s deck. RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY. APRIL 20. 1895. THE REBELLION GROWS UPRISING IN CUBA RAPIDILY SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND. CAMPOS WANTS MORE TROOPS. Though the Insurgents are Growing in Number they are Badly Armed and Equipped—The United States will be Asked to Recognize the Belliger ency ol the Revolutionists—This Would Result in the Free Shipment of Arms and Men to the Island. Madrid, April 16.—Despatches from Havana, informed the government that the rebellion is spreading, but the Il surgents are badly armed, and equipped. The despatches say that if the uprising spreads further, General Maitinez Capos will ask for reinforcements. Congress Asked to Recognize Them. Washington, D. C., April 19.- A bill recognizing the belligerency of the Cuban revolutionists has teen prepared in this city and will be introduced in Congress when that body convenes in December next. It was drafted at the suggestion of certain Representatives and Senators who are in sympathy with efforts of the Cuban people to throw off the yoke ci Spain, and these gentlemen will use their influence to pass it through both houses. Such action on the part of the United States would be of immense service to the revolutionists. It would result in free shipments of arms and men to the Island in support of the insurgents’ cause. Spanish officials say that but for the that the United States may recog nize the Cuban belligerency, the rev olution would collapse within thirty days. Mr. Marti in pnrsuauce to the pro gramme already outlined, will be elected President of the Cuban provisional gov erinent, which it is purposed to establish at au early day. Senator Mauraugua, the jetiring Spanish minister to the United States, wiil leave to-night for New York, where he will remain a few days prior to his departure from the e untry. It is not improbable that Mr. Marau gua may visit Havana before leaving the western hemisphere, in order to fully acquaint himself with the situa tion in Cuba, so that upon his arrival at Madrid he may be able to furnish tbe Spanish ministry with an intelligent ac count of the insurrection. After a short stay in Madrid he will proceed to Paris and make that city his headquarters during the period he shall temporarily retire from active work in the Spanish diplomatic service. AMERICANS IN ENGLAND. An Elaborarte Dinner given by the American Society in London. London- April 19.—The Americans constituting the new Americau Society in London diced at tbe Case Royal this evening. There were about 150 persons present. Ambassador Bayard, who pre sided, had on his right, James B. Eustis, United Srates ambassador to France and Gen. Patrick A. Collins, Consul General, and on his left Andrew Carnegie. The dinner was very elaborate, la proposing the first toast of the evening— to the Queen —Mr. Bayard said: “The manhood of America responds to the manhood of Great Britain in this toast, as Americans of every opinion honor the British sovereign’s sex.” The toast to the President of the Uni ted States was then given by the Am bassador. He referred to Mr. Cleve land’s vigorous actions at all times when the honor of the country demanded de cisive steps aud when America's equal rights in the councils of the world were involved ‘“Heechoes the voice of our cho sen citizens when he makes known our demands,” he said, “aud we stand be hind his polit y. The organization of Americans iu .uropeau capitals doubt less wi’l mould opinion to the advantage of our country. Ambassador [Eustis caused a mild sen sation with bis response to the toast “Our Guests.” The stirring American ism which he breathed in every sentence was all the more remarkable in contrast with the sentiments of Ambassador Bay ard’s speech. “The chief indictment found against America by Europeans, is that we have no ancestors and no ruins. I near this so often that I occasionally remark that 1 am sorry Chicago and Boston were re built after the great fire.” Andrew Carnegie spoke for “the American bi-Nationalists” and Gen. Collins for the American officials iu tendon. THE STAMP COUNTERFEITERS The Newspaper Man Under Arrest Positively Identified. ( hicago, April, 19. Charles O. Jones, the newspaper artist, was positively iden tified at one o’clock this morniDg as the mysterious George Morrison, dealer in counterfeit stamps. This morning, M. D. Whitman, agent of the American Expre s Company, at Elgin, 111 , was shown tbe prisoner and identified him as the man who shipped from that point $225 worth of stamps to W. L. Thompson, editor of Heart and Hand. The womau now under arrest in H *m ilton, Out., known as Mrs. M. T. Mack, is Tinsey McMillan, of Chicago. She is the principal in the stamp forgeries and her only associate is Jones. WILDE REFUSED BAH.. Damaging Evidence Produced I gainst Him and Ilis Friend Taylor. London, April 19.—Oscar Wilde and his friend Alfred Taylor, were arraigned in the Bow Street police court at noon to day for further examination. Wilde looked greatly fatigued and really ill. His hair was ruffled and his general ap pearance indicated carelessness. Charles Parker was called to the stand and testified that Taylor, the other ac cused man, told him he had gone through the marriage ceremony with young Mayer. He, Taylor, wearing woman’s clothes. After the ceremony there was a wedding breakfast, followed by the orgie, the disgusting details of which were fully recounted. The detective testified that he had searched the rooms occupied by Taylor, Chapel street, where he found checks payable to Mayer and telegrams from Wilde to Taylor arranging and cancel ling meetings, other witnesses were called to the stand and gave similar damaging testimony. At the conclusion Wilde and Taylor were fully committed for trial in the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey. Application was made for bail, but it was refused. Wilde in reply to the question whether he had anything to say, said: “Not at present. Counsel for Oscar Wilde has an nounced his intention to apply to the Court of Queen’s bench for the admis sion of his client to bail, on the ground that the admission to bail of a prisoner charged with or indicted for a misde meanor is compulsory under the statute law. FIVE FIREMEN INJURED. Thev Were Buried Beneath the wail of i a Burning Building. Philadei.pia, April 19.—A fire which destroyed the buildiDg occupied by the New York Biscuit Company, 210 North Front Street, badly damaged the soap and candle factory of Wm. Dreydoppel, 208 North Front Street and resulted in serious injury to five firemen, started shortly before 1 o’clock this morning in the basement of the former establish ment. The flames spread so rapidly that four alarms sounded and three police and fire boats on the Delaware, which is distant but a block were put into service A hour after the tire began, a rear wall of the buildings on Saveu Street, a small thoroughfare, fell, and five firemen were buried iu the debris. All were injured, one probably fatally. The tire spread to a row of tenement houses on Craven street and Augusta Place, and seven families were burned out in a jiffy, all of their household es sects being lost. Other dwellings in tbe immediate neighborhood were also dam aged, principally by water. The ioss to the biscuit company ag gregates $200,000 and tbe damage to Dreydoppei’s factory amounts to $50,- 000 more. The damage to the dwellings will probably reach $25,000, making the total loss $275,000, upon which there is a partial insurance. REVENUE FROM INCOME TAX. Commissioner Miller Says the Returns Show About *11,365 000. Washington, April 19.— Internal Rev enue Commissioner Miher to day gave ont his official estimate of the revenue to be realized from the income tax. as he stated it in a letter to Secretary Car lisle : ••Telegraphic advices from the Col lectors of the several internal revenue districts indicate that tbe aggregate amount of income tax shown by the re turns which were filed before the 16th inst, will be about fourteen million, three hundred ai d sixty five thousand dollars. “Delayed returns and corrections, it is believed, will considerably increase this amount. ••The total expenditures on account of < he A'irk, including necessary sales and allowances, to the end of the present fis cal year will not exceed one hundrtd aud thirty five thousand dollars.” WORK OF THE FIRE FIEND. Sixty Business Houses Burned iu the Town of Ardinoore. Ardmoore, I. T, April 19. -The main business portion of Ardmoore, for six solid blocks on Ohaddo Street, north and south of Main Street, were burned about 3 o'clock this moruing. Sixty business houses were entirely destroyed. The 10-s will aggregate $500,000. The United States Court and jad were also destroyed. The Masonic Temple was also burned Many families are camped out in the street. A Mrs. Neal was so badly burned that she cannot recover. ALL QUIET AT COAL CREEK. The Miner Who Was Shot is Not Dead but Will Die. Knoxville, Tenn., April 19. —All is quiet at Coal Creek today. The miners still remain out of the Royal mines but there has been no further disturbance and none is expected. The report sent out yesterday that Frank Hendricks, one of the men shot, had died, was premature. There is little doubt but that his wounds will prove fatal, but, he is alive this evening. Morgan, who was pursued by the in diguant miners, has not been heard from. There is no trouble at any of the other mines in the Coal Creek district WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW SPECULATION A BIG FACTOR IN THE IMPROVED PRICE OF PRODUCTS. CROPS BACKWARD IN THE SOUTH. Rise in Price of Cotton Intended to Prevent Decrease in Acreage—Meat Market Under Absolute Control of Strong Corporations—Owing to W ild Speculation Oil has Risen More Than 200 Points—Money Market Dull and Iron aud Steel Disapvlnting. New York, April 19.—R. G. Dunn and Co.’s weekly review of trade to mor row will say: In every speculative department busi mss is growing, but this is really the least satisfactory feature of the sitm tiou. Cotton, oil and wheat climb above the export price, so that the marketing of products abroad must be checked and money is absorbed which ought to be employed in productive industry and in distribution of products to consumers. Everybody knows that oil has not risen 2UO points because it is intrins - eally more valuable, nor is wheat actu ally worth more than it was two or three weeks ago, but the expansive aud uplift ing force has unfortunately taken to speculation rather than to production, and so we have higher prices in all spec ulative maikets without a larger demand for consumption. There is no evidence that cotton ia in larger demand than it was when the price was a cent lower, hut prices have been so low for months that an upward movement was easy without much rea son, though stocks here and abroad are 300,000 bales larger than they were at the same date after the greatest crop ever produced heretofore and spinners here and abroad have taken about 1,000, 000 bales more than they have con sumed. .T 'crise tends to prevent the decrease of acreage which is its one rea sonable excuse. Outside of sp cda ve markets, the moit impo taut feature is the rise in the price of beef, which is largely due to the control ot sources of supply by a few strong corporations. There ought to be, but apparen ly is not, sufficient power in the hands of the government to meet any such conspiracy against the public, and the proposal of Secretary Morton to admit Mexican cattle, and cattle from Canada on easy terms for the benefit of consumers, is heartily commended, though it is not likely to have much in fluence. The actual decrease in receipt? of cattle at the four chief western mar kets has been 200,000 head during the first quarter of 1895, and the quantity killed has been only 80,000 head less than last year, about ten per cent., but facts have little to do with prices in this ease, as in the case of oil. In iron and steel, the situation is rather disappointing, although the out put continues large, as the demand for finished products does not seem to in crease. Structural forms are iu large demand, but sales of wire are about 80 per cent. less. Some large textile mills have advanced wages at Fall River about 10 per cent, restoring the rates paid after the reduc tion in September, 1893. Labor troubles are comparatively less serious this week, and the tendency is toward larger re turns -for labor, which will increase the consuming power for other proiucts. The cotton mills are encouraged by im proving prices, and are fairiy busy. Money markets are comparatively dull, and accumulation from the interior con tinues, although there is no material increase in the commercial demand. Failures for the first eleven days of April amounted to $3,417,765, of which $1,424,238 were of manufacturing and $1,952,527 of trading concerns. Fail ures during the past week have been 241 in the United States, egainst 219 last year, and 34 in Canada, against 45 last year. Bradstreet’s Report. Nk,w York, April 19. —Bradstreets to morrow will say: Tbe volume of general trade has maintained the previous week’s pro portions, and at some points shows note worthy increase as compared with the total a year ago. The reaction iu petroleum prices ap pears to have been overcome and the tendency is again upward, based on a drop in stocks from about 11,000,000 barrels of Pennsylvania oil in January, 1894, to less than 8,000,000 barrels of merchantable oil. So marked and rapid has been the appreciation in price of petroleum that speculation in it has been excited. Further advances in quotations are noted also for wheat, on improved de mand for export; cotton, on a widened consumption, present and prospective; print cloths and other cotton goods, be cause of higher raw cotton. General trade conditions with the South are no better, and in some re spects less satisfactory. In Texas, high winds aud lack of rain have hurt crop prospects, and farmers in some locali ties have not planted yet. Firemen Asked to Resign. Denver, April 19.—The fire and po lice board has requested the resignation of every fireman in the city. The ac tion has created a very bitter feeling and is supposed to have been taken on ac count of the fin meus’ activity in the last election. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SOLDIERS COMING SOUTH. Twelve Thousand Federal Veteran Buy Homes in Southern Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., April 19.—The Sol diers’ Colony Company, of which P. B Fitzgerald, of Indianapolis, is at th*. head, to day closed a bargain with ex Governor Northern, of Georgia, and th* Immigration Bureau, for a solid tract of one hundred thousand acres locate# in South Georgia. While the originators of this colony are Federal veterans, any moral pernor may obtain a home in the colony upon equal terms. Twelve thousand person* will be located this fall beginning tn September. This is the largest colonization schemr of the age, and has been gotten up ot, the share plan during the last few years Having secured all the needed money they have not olny selected a site, btr have bought the land outright. The papers of Georgia print longoorc plimentary editorials on Mr. Fitzgerald’? selection of a site in this State, and rev sure his friends of a warm reception. anotheroscarwii.de affair A Prominent Business Man A nr' for Practising Base Crimes. Indiana polls, Ind., April 19.—De witt D. Nay, 56 years old, well know* in the city and prominently connectec with a large business house, was arres ted to day on a charge of practising haer* crimes. The police have been watching a eer tain block in the heart of the city, sap posing that a gambling room wa3 in op eration there. This morning three offi ce! s burst into a room on the upper floor and ir on, tbe evidence in si&htthe anraaf was rrab'. The apart nit nt w.ts handsome ly fur-' uished and occupied by a colored naan The place, it is now learned, ban beer frequented by prominent men, who met you hs there and indulged in the prac tices that characterized the Oscar Wilde affair. Nay refuses to talk, but the e evidence seems convincing against him. Many boys have told revolting tales of their vis'its to the place. Other arrests wil l probably follow. BASEBALL VESTERDAI . Season Opened at Boston by a Cam* Between Bouton and Washing too. Boston, April 19—The League season was opened at the South end ground* this afternoon. Fu ly 13,000 people crowded the grounds. Several thouaaMk stood up in the outfield, making a ground rule of two bases on a hit into the crowd necessary. The game was delayed 3C minutesowing to the rush. The Wash ingtons started iu like winners and by clever batting had a fair lead on the Bostons until the 7th inning when Stock dale was pounded right and left for <5 hit* with a total of 10. The visitors wet* run off their feet and could do nothint after this onslaught. The fielding m Nicholson and the batting of Collins, Long, McCarthy, Cartwright and Joyce were the features. Score: Boston, 0 0 10 117 1 0 -IS Washington, 10300200 6 * Batteries: Stivetts andJGanzell; Stock da'e and McGuire. Umpire, Keefe. Louisville, Ky., April 19.—Follow ing the brilliant, opening game ye.- terday the Louisville team dropped into its old style to day. Knell was knocked out of the box in the first three innings mu': Luby did little better. Pittsburg® play was marked by splendid fielding aw! base running, in strong contrast to it* work yesterday.—Attendance 2,000 Score: teuisville, 00001 000 9 —f Pittsburg, 024 C 1002 a —S Batterie>: Knell and Welsh; Hawley and Sugden. Umpire, McDonald Iu the South. Lynchburg, Va., April 19.—The to bacconists murdered the Roanoke tearr. in the game of ball to-day. Gray wa; iu the box for the home boys and tey brilliant, while the playing of Roamok* was wretched in every particular. Score: Lynchburg 2 2 0 0 1 2 1 J $-lt Roanoke 10000001 0— 2 Batteries: Gray aud Schabel : and Purcell. Richmond, Va , April 19.- Th*- >dch mond club beat Portsmouth out this evening in one of the most exertinw ten inning games ever played here. Hare batting iu the last two innings was aP that saved the locals from defeat'. Up to that time it was a pitchers- tattle Score. Richmond, 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 -€ Portsmouth, 200 0000 01 o—B Batteries: Tannehill and Gibson Hall man and Vetter. Norfolk, Va., April 19--About' 60G people witnessed the second league giun* b( tween tbe home team and PeterrJmrg this afternoon. The game was bKker on the whole than the presale# aw Score : Norfolk, 12; Petersburg, & Batteries—McDonald and Tteolejr Foreman and Hayden. To Dethrone the Kins; t’ma. London, April 19 A Centra! New* dispatch from Seoul, under today'? date, says that a plot has been discovered tc dethrone the King of Corea ia favor of his uephew, Li Shun Yon, The o» spirators, including Li Shun Yon. w«rw promptly arrested.