The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-14
FEDERA[ RAID ON NEW YORK
 ART DEALERS
Especial from United Pregs.)

Special from United Press-)
 New York, Oct Especial United
 States NIarsha1s are today on guard In the big Fifth avenue art gallery
 bf Duveen Brothers, while others are
 carefully watching the books and pa
 pers of the firm, seized by Federal ; agents in last evenings spectacular
 raid. Two members of the firm, Ben
 tannin DuVeen, a junior partner, and 5 Henry J. Duveen, one of the found
 CTS, are under bonds of $50,00O and z $75, GOO respectively, to appear before
 Commissioner Shields next Monday to
 answer ~to an allegation of conspIr-
 acy1sto defraudt the United States by means of under-valuation of works of
 art imported; of presenting fraudu. : lent Invoices; and of eevading duties. '. The case rivals in interest the sen sational developments in the celebrat- eed sugar frauds. According to Dis i, Erict Attorney Henry A. Wise who is SHn personal charge of the case, the r Duveen firm has defrauded the gov
 ernnent of enormous surns-he places : tths figure at $1,O0o Oo0-by systennat-. hcally underwriting works of art Brought into the United States during of the firm, through their attorneys.
 deny, character4zing the charge as S'absurd.'
 The Federa1s Grand Jury today took Mp the allegations against the firm. Inspectors who have been detailed to kxa1nfne all of the imports of the firm durfng the past two months were Henee to bear out the governments lcharge that goods have been. under : valued. While these inspectors were Restify1ng, a force of experts. was go- kng over the books and papers Of the Arm which were removed from their hffices yesterday. These included the hrm's private invoices, the letter books And ccrrespondence between the man kgers of the concerns branches in A1ondon, Paris and New York, and it's Customers.
 F District Attorney Wise said he had secured from the papers all the eVl- dence needed and seemed certain that 1n0tctnents would be returned short By, &ppssJbly before the hearing next Monday. @
 Ahe night in a cell, was due to the HopsiA eration of Commission Shields, kEho came oyer from his Brook!ya nome. and accepted bail at 2:30 this i morning. The elder Duveen was ar Eested on the deck of the steamer LusffAnia when that liner reached kauarantine late last night He was hustied into as2 revenue cutter and Brought to the Federal building, where His attorneys, Corbett and Stern, were En waiting. The charge was read to him and then the district attorney asked that bail be fixed at $10o,0O0. Hhere was a hot argument the attor- kenough and finally Shields compro- snliSed at $75,0O0.
 As the lDuveens have been for years recognized as the leading art dealers hof this country. and have numbered tamong their patrons J. P Morgan, lotto H. Khan, George J. Gould, James IA Garland and other noted collectors, tthe question was raised today, wheth- Fer if it is proved that there was Eundervalution. the works of art they bhave disposed of to collectors may be Fseized by the government i This is a point to be passed on by Ethe. Department of Justice but the-I EgeneraI opinion here is that seizures IcanIot- be made. Solicitor Mark P. t1Anefrews of the customs service, said: ! When goods have been fraudu- Eently undervalued, conditions are not Ethe same as when smuggling is charg- ted T doubt that they can be seized 1 because the title passed when the 1 Egoods are bought by innocent pur- i chasers from the importer. Under ! aEed goods have been entered at the tcustoms house and the government sxvould have to recover the amount out 1 Eof which 1t is defrauded by a civil Fac ction.' D s3S