El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-14

, boarded the liner, as he said he would.
! He also left il at New York he did not
take time to say goodbye TO MS BO-
/ hemian acquaintance. He was too busy
whispering 70 an inspector whom ne
knew and had "pegged into MS SyS-
tenn" say. do YOU see that tail WOm-
an over there2 Well, she has some
( valuable jewelry that she hasn't de-
! clared. There's a stOmacner / know Of
worth q GOOD many thousands
Fancy the feelings of Mrs Hargrave
when she found that she was confront
I ed and trapped by her own SuesJ
| OF course, even though she had been
caught red-handed, as II were, she
! talked. The little affair was repeated
to the banker who had sent the StOm-
acher back and had paid for the pearls.
He took the matter up with the gov
eminent. The result was complaint.
had discovered two facts a certain
man in the customs service had sug-
gested the smuggling. IN the first
place That certain man had prOfited
by the seizure, had received a large
sum as his part Of the molety when
the government prevailed IN the courts
+ in the case that ne naq uNeu up
unearthed the story Of Mr.. Jacob
son. a wealthy and retired merchant of
Indianapolis I went out TO see Mr.. ia
cObsOn- Now. as the government knew
the case, Jacobson mad made a large
number Of purchases OF small presents
abroad for his friends and family. He
probably had no intention Of smuggling
G.
he honestly felt that as long as he was
going to give the things away he had
a sort of right not 10 declare them. OF
course he had no such right, but people
have way of deceiving themselves.
When Jacobson landed, a most mys-
FERROUS tip had gone forth. ii seemed.
The inspectors found the presents.
Process Of ShearinE SmuEEIer.
Then began the process of shea ring
him. They told him ne would be ar
rested, indicted and sent to the peniten-
tiary- BE was arrested. Some one in
the customs service Kept right after
him all the time. Jacobson hired law
yers who We're very kindly suggested
TO him All manner of strings were
pulled and big fees werR extracted from
him The man was scared almost to
death, and before he got out OF it, it
had cost him $4,000
Now, why did you do ito" I asked.
What ever put the notion into your
head2"
Well he answered. ct met a fellow
on the boat coming over, and / got to
talking with him He seemed like nice
sort Of chap, and told me 1 was fool to
declare the things-Said he could fix it
al right say, do you know think
he rOPed me in2'
win you make an affidavit to that
effectg'
It was late at night and the man
promised TO do il next day
But the next day something had hap
pened. The mans mouth was sealed
Powerful influences, swift and secret.
had scented ~ ytra1l, and had succeeded
in squelching the case.
BY this time I had begun to learn
whom / could trust and whom l could
not In the customs house There was
whom we viii call O'Connor He was
pretty nearly the only man had come
in contact with. so far, who tried to do
-shu9 u or Get OUT
O'Connor had had his suspicious for
years of what was going on I had
taken a fancy 10 him, and began to ask
questions, preparatory to coming out
into my open investigation But the
young lawyer couldn't talk without the
permission of his superior I went to
the superior. .Blulfing, this man shouted
to O'COnnOr- "If you know anything.
say it." He meant to be understood as:
shut I'D or get out"
Slut the young lawyer had nerve A
few hours later he was pouring Q string
Of amazing stories into my ear
I was beginning TO get acquainted
with the method Of the crook and II
was only a question Of time when I
would catch him right" 1t wasn't very
long before / learned Of a very prOmI-
nent New Yorker named Burke. who
had gone abroad the previous summer.
on the way across there had happened
TO be on the same boat young lady,
Miss ElOrette DuVal, whom Burke knew
and with whom ne was very friendly.
Indeed, when Burke returned, il also
happened that Miss DuVal was on the
same boat More than that II happened
that a watchful pair of eyes had been
leveled at the pair, both on the ocean
and while they were abroad
They landed, and there was the usual
making Of declarations and the search
at the pier. In this case, however, moth
ing Of dutlable nature was found
Burke's trunks had hardly disap-
peared from the wharf when a special
empIOye Of the customs service rushed
Up TO Burke's apartments IN New York.
Il demand to know where those three
extra trunks are You know what !
mean-the other three he clustered.
II am sure a lot Of stuff has been snug
gled- You've got to come across
Now. this was all news TO Burke. He
knew that all his goods had been eX-
amined and that he had declared every
thing dutiable. over and over he as
sured the empIoye that he must be en-
tirely mistaken
"Oh. no. he insisted slyly. I'm not
mista ken I have the Information. all
right Now, I want to see those trunks I
know It Come, let me see It, he de-
handed
Burke did some rapid fire thinking.
He knew that some Of the customs men
mad a way OF trying 'nelT cases IN Ine
newspapers. And the only result that /
Burke could figure out, as far as he !
himself was concerned, was that, even !
If he succeeded in beating the Outra-
geOus demand. he would find himself I
entangled in an investigation, with a I
full blown scandal attached. Would ]
every one accept the coincidence Of 4
his meeting Miss Duval so fortunately 4
say" he said. you send a man to I
Sc me in the morning. III have the I
trunks shown to him. and ne can do {
just as he pleases with them"
The result was, a second man came /
Imagine the establishment Of Burke 4