The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-29
SAYS JEWELS
ARE BOGUS.
New Phase In Case Of Mrs.
Dodge, Accused Of Smuggling.
PEkBLS ARE ONLY INVITATIONS.
One Appraised as Worth $4,000 Cost
Only SO, Her Lawyer Declares.
OTHER GEMS OF MADE E-To-ORDeR KIND
Expert MiudeI Isn't Sure about ihs GsnuInsnsss
Of The Pearls, but Is Positive About The
Necklace Burden Of Proof.
OTHER GEMS OF MADE E-TO-ORDER KIND

New York. June pa new and inn
posing figure has appeared upon the
horizon of the Appraisers Stores in the
train OF Mrs. Phyllis Dodge. II is a
s12 dog. Of make and name unknown,
and thus far appears only as an iron
bound guarantee OF good faith.
Look here" says Mr.. Minrath OF the
firm OF Hoadly, Lauterbach q Johnson,
this thing has gone too far. You've
seen this beautiful and marvellous pearl
said to be worth $4,000? We'll. that
pearl isn't a pearl at all. It's an imi-
tation, and IL is worth exactly ~.
You've seen all those other marvel
Gus gems. Every one of them - llke
the pearl. They were all bought In the
United States, too.
when Mrs. Dodge was in Paris she
took out "A stomacher, valued at s1O,VOO'
on memorandum-on approval, as ~
were Some treasury agent in Paris
heard of this and cabled over TO Wash
ington that she had bought 1t. She
didn't buy IL; in fact, she bought moth
ing over there.
The treasury agents found that Mrs.
Dodge had brought back nine trunks
all told. The custom house has applied
10 the American line TO learn how
many trunks Mrs. Dodge took abroad
when she left two months ago.
Yesterday Col. Phelps of the law de-
partment i'm the customs house went
through one of the two seized trunks
and found a number of new gowns,
several opera cloaks. few bits OF Jew :
elry and an umbrella handle studded
with -ielns-T1Xn- of the gowns bore
the name of London makers.
Then he looked up the declarations.
1t was brief lone dog. value $12. was
the first entry After that appeared
declaration upon a few pieces OF house
hold linen.
Mrs. Dodge" said her lawyers, de
clared all dutfable articles"
So that the net result of Mrs. Dodge s
trip abroad was one Sl2 dog.
Some one told Col. Phelps that the
pearl of price had never been nearer
than Sixth avenue 10 the pearl fisheries
Col. Phelps grinned.
Maybe" said he.s I'm not an ex-
pert"
Mr. Mjndll was asked Have you
examined the jewels?"
ooh. yes: but only specifically. You
can never tell about pearls. The only
wav TO tel 1.-The real from the spurious
is by the specific gravity test-weigh'
| ing them"
lis the necklace spurious
1T certainly Is not. They don't dis
| pute that the necklace - valued ~ th'
| figure we have put upon IL"
| Mr.. Mindil couldn't say whether II
| had been bought here or not. The bur
| den of this proof will rest upon Mrs
| Dodge.
At the conclusion OF the examination
at the appraisers stores yesterday az
| ternoon all the jewelry. with the eN
| ception Of four pieces aggregating II
| value between $4,000 and S50.Oo0. ant
| all ahe wearing apparel. were returne'
| to Mrs Dodge, who was present at th'
| examination. on the ground that the,
| were not dutiable, having been pur
chased in this country. The four pieces
| of jewelry retained are pearl neck
| lace. a jewelled dog collar. a scarfpiI
| and a set of shirt waist buttons. These
| however. may b. returned TO Mrs
Dodge, as she insists they were bough
| i'm this country.
The government experts still conten'
| that all the jewels are genuine I'm spit
| of the declaration of Mrs. Dodge
counsel that some of them are only i'm
| itationq