The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-16
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RICH WOMAN UP
 FOR SMUGGLING
Mrs. Chesbrough, Who Brought in Goods Under a Trunk False Bottom, h. dicted- $23,OOO Necklace Given Up.

New York, July 16-There is now locked up in the safe in the office of the Collector, of the Port the s23,O0O pearl necklace brought to this coun- try either by Fremont B. Chesbrough or his wife. Until they can prove that there was no intent to import it with out the payment of duty it will re- main in the custody of the officials here.
 The Chesbrough case has been oc- cupying the attention of the United several weeks, and it was learned yesterday that an indictment for smuggling has been found against Mrs. Chesbrough. The indications trial. The pearls were surrendered yesterday after a weeks investigation by special Treasury agents.
 Mrs. Chesbrough arrived here late in May the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II from Bremen. She declared that her foreign purchases amounted to about s1O0. The Gus toms officers in examining her trunks found one containing a false bottom. Packed underneath there were several thousand dollars worth of wearing ap- parel and furs. The goods were seiz- ed.
 What most interested the Customs men in the trunks, however, were bills showing that a pearl necklace and an- other necklace of imitation pearls had been purchased abroad. The imita- tion pearl necklace, which Mrs. Ches- brough valued at $700, was found with the concealed furs. but there was no trace, at first, of the real pearl neck lace.
 MT. Chesbrough, who went to the as- sistsnce of his wife, said that this been brought into this country yet, because he was waiting to see if the duty on it would not be reduced un- der the new tariff law. The necklace
 
 ing for an order to bring it in.
 The officials here were not satisfied with this explanation. They contin- ued their investigations. Just what they will not say. but yesterday Will liam Cady, a Pittsburg attorney, ap- peared at the Custom House and sur rendered the necklace. He was told in importing it rested with his client, and the necklace would not be releas- ed until the matter had been thor oughly explained.
 Meantime Mrs. Chesbrough has bro- ken down under the shock of exposure and worry and is now in a sanitarium Her husband has appealed to the off, cials here not to trouble her and has promised to produce her for trial when requested.
 Another interesting fact in connec- tion with the seizure of the second necklace is that this one, which, MT. CneSDrOuSn says, cost him about S7O0 abroad, is appraised by the precious stone examiners at the Appraisers Stores as worth about S2.6O. It is however, a fine looking thing of imita- tion pearls.
 Fremont B. Chesbrough is the own CT of the Chesbrough Coastwise Line of Steamers running out of Boston He is best known in Detroit, where he has a magnificent home. Besides being one of the wealthiest men of the Northwest he is the owner of the town of Emerson, Mich.
 The arrival of Mrs. CheSbrough with time when the customs officials, under the new regime were especially active in examining the baggage of incom- ing travellers. The officials are unwil- ling to compromise this case because they believe that a few convictions of rich persons for smuggling will go far toward discouraging such at tempts on the part of many who have been suspected of smuggling in the past.
 No longer will a smile and hand shake go on the steamship piers as in the not so long ago" said a customs official yesterday. "We are determin- ed to go the whole length in the Chesbrough case. After we get through Mrs. Chesbrough will look af- ter her own affairs and not have her trunks packed by others who will in sert goods under a false bottim in her trunk without her knowledge