The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-20

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which her furs were found.
NM0I a HSS FREMONT CHESBROUGTf.
N&! MI wife of the Boston and Detroit
SW1 AVA millionaire, president of the Ches-
lMI brough Coastwise Line Of Steamships,
N0VI bought trunk in Paris. 1t the
mi dearest trunk and odd! It three
MI story and basement trunk. In the third
WMI story Mrs. Chesbrough had her Paris hats
AkJ packed. In the second her Paris gowns.
In the first her Paris lingerie and silk
a I'll things In the basement
ANN But the basement closed. It
SMOiI indeed closed perfectly that the trunk
'N&| seemed to stop at the first story. The
SNMI Customs people broke into the base
Nm, ment with Ratchet. The lining went
k\Wl uninterruptedly all down the sides and
SNl over the frst-story floor. Under this
NMl floor. which the customs people crudely
MINI call false bottom lot of very
Nh costly sabes. Mrs. Chesbrougl. had de-
clared all the articles In the first three
dHl stories-value S1O9-but she had forgot
ANN to declare the furs--value $4,000
SNOiI Therefore the customs officers seized the
SR1 trunk. had Mrs Cheshrough indicted in
|NMl the New jersey courts, because, she
Nm, landed at Ioboken. the affair comes
MoN| within that jurisdiction, and Collector
SNI Loeb. who has done much make
N%Nl ocean travelling unpopular, says that he Is
MMI going TO try to prove that Mrs Ches-
Ak brough tried to smuggle in those furs.
The penalty for smuggling is confsca-
G0 ton of goods, fine imprisonment for
LNMi not more than two years, at the dscre
SNOiI ton of the Judge. The Collector he
.SGl Is going to try to have all the penalties
|SMI enforced II he
|AN7I Oh, yes. There also found in
M0N Mrs Chesbrough's trunks two receipts
|SN| for pearl necklaces. One for 500
INN and this, it turned out, for a rope
lMM OF false pearls worth really less than
lGk 500. The other for 10000 francs,
about $4,000 Neither necklace
(dEl TO be found. Mrs. Chesbrough said her
HnWl husband had brought them over with
INV, him, but they hadn't been declared. Mr..
IN&I Chesbrough summoned finally produced :,
IDMI the real necklace which he said he had e.
I(NN,I sent to Canada to wait over the border ,
lMV1 until the tariff pearls had been g
lNNI trihe reduced The necklace now waits g
SNN| with the trunk the very odd three-story- p
lMM endorsement affair h
Xxx Brown, new. smart, with faur-de-iis II
= scattered it, giving it grace, and f,
(aR) lengthwse bands OF wood. giving 1t p
HAM strength. the trunk is sequestered In
lANOI the Custom House until it is called as
INSI the chief witness in the trial soon to be
ISMI held.
lH&I If 1t could talk it could answer the
iMVNI quostions-'Did Mrs Fremont Ches-
INNI brough believe you to be honest. law
l%i abiding trunk did she know you were
|MM q false bottoned trunk. built with the
Nh intent to deceive? &
- eff she did buy you without any nten-
|6kl ton of smuggling how did her furs hap
|kNNI pen to be packed in the false bottom;
|SOI why, indeed. was the trunk built around
lNHi the sabes. instead OF being put In after
lf@\Mi trunk was buit?'
l,lo%7 1t was last May that Mrs Chesbrough IN
lMoVi landed in Hoboken from the Kaiser Will ~
ISAN7l helm II. Her effects she said wereMJ
iNMt worth $1,000. a customs officer, MAX II!
lMMi ing a hurried examination. thrust his II
IS Gorgione's "Eve," Which Mrs. p
Tex Gardner Imported for Her IL
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