The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-28

t New York received a tip to the effect
tnat a certain man and his wife were en-
route 10 New York with diamonds. The
pair We're questioned closely by the in
/ spectofs when the steamer landed. but il
was impossible 70 elicit anything like a
I confession Finally. the two were sep
aFateo, and in a few minutes the wife
was told her husband had confessed that
she had the diamonds. She broke into
/ tears removed her hat took the pins
/ from her hair COiled on her head. and
When the mass dropped down there lay
/ revealed a channels bag which was found
/ TO contain diamonds Of great value
| Laces bear a heavy duty and many at
] tempts are made to smuggle them. Not
! long ago a woman who reached New
/ 1ork on steamer from France was
found 70 have her body and legs swathed
IN the most costly laces-hundreds OF
Yards Of them. She said she put on the
/ faces TO protect herself against the cold
/ New York dressmakers are much given
/ 70 the habit OF coming back from Paris
wearing so many garments beneath their
/ street dress that the slenderest of young
| things have al the pOrtliness Of middle
age
Chicago man who was searched by
customs Officers at New York was found
/ 70 nave i'm his shoes fOrty-twO gold chains
IL diamonds and forty-three pearls-a
| total value of $4,000. Another man. when
searched. was found TO have something
| like $4,000 worth of diamonds concealed
u
sock. Carriers Of his own design had Civ
en- way, and the diamonds. being allowed
| to descend into his shoe. made him limp
in manner that aroused the suspicious
Of the officials.
Cassie Chadwick. the woman whose op-
erauons i'm flimflam finance" attracted
universal attention a few years ago. is
SAID 10 nave Struggled 100000 worth of
diamonds and jewelry through the custom
house at New York. Once she was de-
tected, but was allowed TO make restitu-
/ ton OF the duties. She always made her
trips abroad in company with her son and
daughter. She is said to have sold her
goods TO dealers in Pittsburg and C!eve-
land
Smuggling in bulk. that is. the method
of landing an entire cargo at some OBJ
scure spot and getting il thence into the
commerce Of the country, Is no longer
pIactised, according TO the officials The
revenue cutter service, employed by prac-
ucally every country with a seacoast. has
put stop TO this method of beating the
customs Il was a much more pictIr-
esque method of smuggling and has fur
nished the subject Of much stirring fic-
ton While il is not possible to have a
revenue cutter to guard every possible
landing place a smuggler might choose.
the little vessels are on the move so con-
stantly and are so nearly ubiquitous that
II IS impossible for the Smuggler to tell
whether one of the craft is not watching
the very spot he may have decided on as
Smuggling men has become more or
less general practice since the enactment
Of the Chinese exclusion law. Many
Cinnamon have paid as high as s. 800 to
be transported across the Canadian or
Mexican border into the United States
The standard price is said to be SO The
usual way in which IL is accomplished is
for the smuggier generally an ex-railroad
man. to make up a party OF Celestials
and store them in a freight car standing
in the yards at Vancouver or some Mex
lean town. The customs seal on the sta
pie holding the car doors ogether-the
smugglers always make use of a car
which has been sealed-is left intact al
though the staple is removed. frequently
by taking off the nuts which hold it. this
being done in some manner not fully IN
derstOOd. 1t occurs sometimes that the
Cinnamon have TO remain in their close
quarters for days. and il has happened
more than once that dead Chinaman
has been found when the car was finally
opened
Airships may revolutionize- smuggling
but the officials do not greatly fear the
use of the air as a field for violation Of
the customs laws. we shall have air
ships by the time the smugglers get
them remarked an official recently
I'VE can patrol the air well as the
land if it becomes necessary"
Copyright, 1859. by Frederic J. Haskin)
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