Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-04
Beautiful smuggIers.

ion who spend the summer abroad are
on thewing home, and if they can slip
in few yards of costly laces without
Daying duty it, would save them the exc
pense of their trip
do ladies indulge in amateur smuga
0lirosah sssUl1 H0IsEy73sdg sGd s888S
..4llofd them DON'T anafsohae are so
oVer-conseientiOus that they even offer
to pay daty9On non-dutiabl6 goods But
human nature is the same. whether It is
fashionable dressmaker' or the Rpifelef
PROMINENT clergyman, like the one
who had twenty yards of fine YalenZ
ciennes laceo lacked in her pettieoat.ba {
can not give you her name for lpablfea1
ton, for no proceedings were taken
against her except to have the, lace re-
moved ffonB the garment and sent to
the public stores, from which her hus-
band bafterward aobtainedqi by paving
81 a yard duty"
''Are therladies cunning in the de,
vices they adoptPna'7 ;; a{1 ti3l ua Dus
Their ingenuity is unbounded. Take,
for instance, the, case of Nine, Leone,
the fashionable 1nodiste, who was ar
rested for srhu ggling some time ago.
She declared that She was an actress,
and that the dresses which she, at7
tempted to. pass. through without paying
/ duty formed her theatrical wardrobe
and were entitled tosbe sentin free UNI
der the section relating to tools Of, trade,
She showed contract in which she was
engaged to perform the leading female
roles in a numbers of plays. On the
trial this contract was proved to5 be a
fOr6ersvl Die985 'sOt2 ,Fct 1888 9dIse
Ladies' will BRING over sealskin
sacqtes in the middle of summer and
wear them when the thermometer is In
the 'nineties,3 Simply to be able to swear
that they have been worn. I remember
a lady who wore a brand-new eanels-
hair shawl VALUED at ES2,500.t In her
trunk was another shawl of the Same
material, worth about $500. She claimed
to own both Of them, but the dearer one
was tc0nfiscated and never afterWard
called for. It was subsequently aseer-
tanned that the person who had given
her the commission had made her a
present ofFthe ibheaper shawl, with the
INTERCHANGEABLE sheo#as to get the
other oneithrough free. SYST ~ 'oal
"Another device of the ladies is TO
fold new dresses inside their old ones,
and it takes d an experienced eye to
coYeredsaa $500 WORTH dress with
ans ordinary calico wrapper 2I1iuch
the worse nfor wear n knew that
she was too aristocratie to wear any
thing. so humble aisle calico and
that awakened my suspicious Had
she taken one of her ordinary wearing
dresses instead of 9her servant s. the
fraud might have been successful.
Some ladies, do not hesitate to resort, to
trunks with false. bottoms. One trunk
IN particulars had false sides as we'll,
and when / pulled a couple of screws
aOut it alleanne to pieces.p III o11f 2
~ftDo you ever ARREST the ladies whom
you catch in the attempt to smuggle?''
lu'.No.s Theonly case of arrest that 1
remeInberis that of MINES Leone9 70 We
are. contented to,aconfseate: ygoods
We send the articles to athe public store
and the. owners can. obtain them either
,bysp ging2the eduty YOr proving eunder
oath, that no duty is ndue. We ttake
that course even in cases of: suspicious,
and I admit that innocent passengers
sometimes suffer delay and hardships
on: this account. We must be extra
cautious or Uncle SAINTS revenue would
be seriously diminished. You have an
$4,000 are annually collected at the
deekslOf the various Steamships for duty
on baggage brought over by the pas
sengefS. This is exclusive of what
passes through the custom House III the
| linar-4jcoGrse of business. . How large
anamount the Government is defrauded
Mortified to be called smugglers and who
are not professionally engaged in the
illegal trade, Ioannot pretend to5saS!7'
b. sfiHaye you had much experience with
thetr]ckkfs and and devices OF professional
4 should say Il haas replied The
detective, with smile, as he took from
his desk a hollow boot heel, fashioned of
iron, to. which was. attached an iron
clamp, and showed it to the reporter.
% j'tDo V6usee tfis?''- Plat clamp was
fastene6to a Enanis boot after he'leather
heel of the latter had q been removed.
Then this iron. heel. was filed with
diamonds and screwed to the clamp.
Z The shape ana color are exactly ike
that of an ordin8rY heel and wer6it not
that the ,amHgglerI NERVOUSNESS be-
1traYed him, he might, have. defrapded
the Government out of about So 600 in
1 tlI1tv s,&W h1Ea Z. EBhIq biic931 sl'4 ~
/ E.sAnother case haPpeneSt on board one
OfStheS HavanRaf steamers.ob IWas lopk7
ing for Struggled cigars, and having as
thought, satisfied myself that there
were none on board, was about to leave
when I noticed that the ieleat of the
window of the barber shop, which was
on the upper deck, was a trifie loose, I
caught f6ld' Of it and. pulled, and, to
my surprise, the panel came out, re-
vealing ansaperture uab6utE three feet
high and, one in depth, and Funning
along the whole length of the window,
This spacewas filed with boxes of the
| CHOICEST cigars. After my men had
seized them the barber and the steward
of the vessel mgsterioqslg disappeared
and have not gg shown up around the ship
..Did noe the GaptEliir1 I.k know Of. this?'s
'.NO, from his .explahation4 felt con-
WINGED that the smuggling was being
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