The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-01
SEARCH FOR DIAMONDS
In His Teeth, but the Teeth Were
In His Trunk

SeH' Out the Teeth Wer0
In His Trunk.
New York Sun.
FRANKLIN D. Kelly, the Peoria dentist.
started for home yesterday, triumphant
over the officials of the custom housa
The telegraph wires report that DR.. Kelly
mas the warm sympathy of dental circles
OF Peoria in the noble fight he is making
Tor the Peoria or diamond-studded tooth
IL was asserted yesterday by Dr. Kelly's
friends in this city that the last thing
IN the world the Peoria dentist desired to
nave happen was that his sample dia-
iloHo-SIudded teeth should be concealed
LOT moment from any one interested in
uehtlstry. DR.. Kelly was, In fact. on his
way back from the Paris exposition
Where ne mad been exhibiting the glitter
ing creations of his brain and buzz wheel
70 the whole wide world His diamonds
gutter IN the teeth of opera singers and
he has given the pugilist Fitzsimmons
plug in the jaw, so to speak, of a per-
manent and brilliant character
II soon became apparent to the deputy
coIlector that misunderstanding had led
10 the seizure on Sunday of the baggage
Oh Dr. Kelly, or rather that of his clerk.
MISS Torrance, who came to this country
On the same steamer with him. the New
YORK, OF the American line. The treas
ury department has been informed by
some mysterious person on the other
size OF the ocean that Dr. Kelly accom-
panied by an attractive young woman.
was attempting to smuggle a trunk full
OF diamonds into this country on tbe Nov
York. Inc departments informant was
very 1nsistent. Col Phelps was inter
rupted in his labors again and again nv
the receipt of kilograms telling him tn
pc sure not to let the diamonds eat
througn without paying duty. In at least
one OF me kilograms was a hint that the
q ii would be found concealed in DR..
Kelly teeth This warning now fndi
Gates TO persons not officially connected
WIN the department that somebody was
playing practical joke on DR.. Kelly or
the department.
COL Phelps was so impressed with the
necessity for keeping a sharp lookout
Iof the diamonds that he sent four of his
DeSI men to the pier to meet the New
YORK There is sometimes said to be
friction between the officers of the COL
Ieetor's Office and the officers of TOE
surveyors office. 1t was not observed
that the collectors men showed anv
signs OF great grief at the pier when
they saw Deputy Surveyor Bowling ana
ms assistants put the large chaIked
fourishes on Miss Dorrance's trunks
which showed that they were passed
Inc collectors men simply advanced to
the trunks and said that they wanted
them opened. The surveyors people had
the trunks opened. The collectors peo-
pie found the diamond-studded teeth
Inere Were about bushel of the teeth
IN the trunk, and in the excitement ~
the moment it seemed as though thew
| were all studded WITH diamonds.
| paper was exhibited by DR.. Kelly. which
the surveyors people had already looked
| at and had made out to be a. certificate
| that all the teeth, diamond-studded and
otherwise in the doctors collection were
/ JIOfc lq L.
ported for the purpose Of the exposition.
To the collectors people 1t seemed to
look more like bill of sale for the
diamonds.
The trunks which contained the teeth
were sent to the appraisers stores. and
the reporters who wanted to know what
1t was all about got story about a
seizure of uncut diamonds" But yes
terday morning he dentist and his as
slstant went to the custom house in no
very pleasant frame of mind They
| seemed to feel that not only had slight
been put upon them personally but upon
the whole diamond-studded school of
dentistry. Miss Dorrance, VINO said on
the pier Sunday: I'm something of a
Republican myself" seemed to think
that somebody was going to lose his Of
fetal head right away.
After talk with the two Col. Phelps
said that he rather thought that mis-
take mad been made A formal visit was
made to the appraisers stores. The
Teeth were gone over 1t was found that
they were all of American growth or
manufacture. A diamond-stutlded set
that had attracted particular attention
In Paris was fac smile of the set
which now decorates the mouth of Mr..
t1tzslmmons. About $27 worth of dfa-
mond chips were found. On these Kelly
was required to pay duty All the bag
gage of the dentist and Miss Dorranca
was then released, and was at once for
Warded to Peoria