The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-15

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 doubles our watchfulness and our precau-
 tions.
 Catching the Would-Be's. "A young woman one day annoyed me greatly Her declaration was all right
 and her trunks were all right. Her figure, | too, was all right-no suspicious and dis | cordant corpulence anywehre. But she was nervous and scared. pale, stammer- | ing, nearly speechless-in a word like
 any good young woman who for the first | time in her life was breaking the law. | q called a matron to me. CT wish you'd search this girl I said. | She is trying to overreach us, and l want | to teach her a lesson.
 'The matron led her to a private room, and found a huff drawn her ankle bracelet fashion. She had bought the huff abroad, and to save duty of s@ she had tried to smuggle it in. This girl was a Sunday school teacher, and her father was A millionaire. She was not of course, sent | to jail.
 Another time I noticed something sus- | picious about a young man. He was ill
 at ease. and he held his body in a strange
 way When he knelt to unlock his trunk ] YOU might have thought, from his queer I movements. that he had a broken back. I | touched his shoulder
 Nothing wrong, is there?' I said | "A flush that was like a coat of red | paint suffused his face.
 oh. mo- he said, huskily. ] "I.et me help you up said I. and as
 he rose I passed my hand over his body. Well. when l touched that mans vest there was rattle and clash like break ing glass His vest was lined with a mighty noisy lining.
 | "sWe'u have to examine your person. young man 1 said.
 what for?' said he. T am Senator
 So-and-so's son. I'll have you broke l. you insult me.
 ".Talk is cheap We searched the man and we found that he had sewed inside
 his vest a dozen gold spoons. a sixteenth century watch worth 5000. a magnificent pearl necklace. rings. shoe buckles-all | told, jewelry and plate on which there was duty of $10.000.
 "The amateur. or tourist smuggler near ly always conceals his goods on his per son We don't. of course. search tourists as A rule And if the amateur has lined
 himself cleverly, it may be that he will escape us. But we have the right to search everyone and at any time we are liable to exercise our right,
 Tea Set on Petticoat "I found a rich woman once with | whole silver tea set sewed to hen petit | coat. I detected her from the fact that she stumbled on the pier. She stumbled, and the sound that came from her was
 like a cathedral's chimes. All that silver
 tea set, beating and knocking together,
 gave forth the loudest elangor. The poor | woman turned pale she nearly tainted.
 "I fear. madam l said to her, that
 the matron will have to investigate the
 cause of that noise. Please go to the right. | and you will be searched in our private i parlors
 | Another time the tremulous voice and l the pallor of a one-armed man attracted | my attention. I took hold of this mans empty coat sleeve and found that it was i stiff and full instead of limp and empty. There were in that sleeve over fifty yards | of rare lace. The man was not armless at all He had pretended to be in order ! to smuggle lace in his empty sleeve. | q might go on in this way citing a i hundred eases of amateur smuggling In ! each of these eases the smuggler was | caught through his guilty manner uo | was so nervous and i'll at ease that com vinced he was trying to break the law we I searched him. We only search tourists 1 who look suspicious. In eight cases ont I of ten these searched persons have dutia- ble goods concealed on their persons. ..There is to be sure, another sort of smuggler--the professional He may nay, false bottom to his trunk. fa,ss crown to his hat. false sees to his sboss false rockets in his clothing, and so on l professional smugglers are few. We soon
 rat to know ha-hitiaal tn.lrlsls. Our asa1at.