The New York herald., 1875-10-19
LARGE REVENUE SEIZURE.

UPWARD OF $4,000 OF UNDERvALUED GOODS
TAKEN TO THE SEIZURE ROOM IN THE CUSTOM
HoUsE-A HISTORY OF BOLD AND PERSISTENT
FRAUD.
Since the year 1872 the mercantile house Of Louis
Goldberg Co., Of No Love lane London, have been
parties the deraudng Of Uncle SAINTS to the
extent Of many round thousand dollars The house in
question deals largely IN beads and mners' trimmings
Of all kinds In most Of fraud an avengmg
Nemesis comes forward later and in this
the customs avenger has been Colonel Francis +.
Howe, Special Treasury Agent in this city, who has
been Tor some months back Swallowing" the goods
sent out here from London by the said firm.
The frauds on the revenue consisted of systematic
differentiation Of goods according TO invoices
The following specimen of the frauds commit
ted by Goldberg's three Custom House agents here-
containing fl 100 worth OF goods according to
the genuine invoice. entered in the Custom House
worth $500; another Of s690 was entered at G16s
another Of f300 entered at Ella and on through
long series of false and real invoices, which
in the hands of the above mentioned Special Treasury
Agent
Yesterdays RAID
Colonel Howe, having traced upward OF $50 900 OF
these frauduently imported goods to No. AL Broome
street, Broadway, in conjunction with Treasury
Agents Brown, Bibbins and Russell, determined to
clean out the establishment The proprietor of the
place maintained that he was innocent OF all attempts
at fraud and that he had merely received the goods
from Goldberg, OF London, 10 sell on commission. He
protested against the removal of the goods his store
as an outrage, but when he shown a warrant for
their seizure issued by Justice QUINN he had 10 submit
And TO show his desire to cooperate gave up all papers
bearing the to the Treasury agents The next
thing done cali into requsition string of eight
carts, which were speedily freighted with cases con
tanning beads trimmings velvet trimmings Of all hues,
hat ornaments of huInming birds and endless other
varieties, enameled sets of jewelry, consisting of
crosses sotaires sleeve buttons studs steel and jet
arrows for women's hair, &c One by the
carts loaded, defed of 10 the Custom
House and deposited their reights in the seizure
room Owing to the mass of goods arriving
there sufficient hands not available to place them
all said room, and number OF packages
placed in the corridors Of the Custom House.
which will be watched during the night by the
Custom House watchmen AT about half past five
O'Clock last night another batch OF Goldbergs goods
made their appearance the Custom House. which had
been seized the free warehouse at the corner of
Laight and Yarick streets They eight in number
and filled with valuable class of goods, which
had been fraudulently passed through the Custom
House by undervaluation. The Treasury Off
cials know of seventeen other previous entries
OF Goldbergs goods amounting to $40 O00 which have
been disposed of but of which the buyers names
known and is probable that indictments will be found
against them by the United States Grand Jury for
pcty in dcfrauding the revenue. Several arrests
expected take place within few days with reference
the Goldberg frauds. The Treasury officials allowed
small lot OF goods to remain In the store at No AL
Broome street. where the raid made, and which the
proprietor satisfactorily proved were not Goldbergs
goods.