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THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS.
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CUNKING RUSES EMPLOYED TO
ELUDE CUSTOMS OFFICIALS.
Ingenious Receptacles for Contra¬
band Gems— Curious Expedients
Resorted to by Women.
“More diamonds are brought into this
country in the fall,” said a New York
Custom-house Inspector to a Press re
porter, “than at any other time, as dealers
are then getting ready for the holiday
season. The usual profit ou ordinary
stones, upon which duty is paid, is esti
mated at ten per cent, at wholesale,
Now this is not a large per cent, to
make, and naturally does not satisfy
people inclined to be dishonest. If the
duty was lowered there would be very
little smuggling done, as the profit
would not compensate for the risk of
having the property confiscated.
“It sometimes happens that the Col¬
lector is notified of the coming of dia
mond smugglers, as he was in the case of
Henry James Marriott sonde five or six
years ago. Marriott stole diamonds
valued at $50,030 from a Paris jeweler
named Kramer. Marriott was a clerk in
a picture store, and, with his booty and
a young girl named Pereux, fled to this
country. Two persons answering
description soon after came over in a Ger
man steamer, and hardly had they lauded
before United States Deputy Marshal
Bernhard was on their track. They
were finally traced to Staten Island and
arrested at the Battery while coming up
to the city. Nearly all of the stones
weie discovered, some of them being
sewed into a pincushion, a muff and a
pair of trousers in the room of the thieves,
Sometimes diamond smugglers are re
ported by fellow passengers in whom
they have confided, or who have their
suspicious excited by some chance word
or act. Diamonds have been found con¬
cealed in soap, in women’s back hair,
and in some instances fastened to the
plate of an upper set of false teeth. Some
people who are constantly on the go be -
tween this country and Europe are
habitually watched.
“One of the strangest cases that ever
came under my observation was that of
a man who had subjected himself to a
great deal of bodily pain to effect his
purpose. It was generally understood
among his fellow passengers that he was
a great invalid and was suffering Don 1
some incurable blood disease that would
eventually end his life. When he came
off the steamer, supported by attendants,
he was indeed a frightful looking ob
ject, his face being a mass of eruptions.
What it was that excited my suspicious
I can’t say, but something told decided me that
the man was an imposter and I
to have him searched. You never saw
such an indignant lot of people as they
were and their prostestations the that the a
search would endanger life of
invalid almost made me lorego my reso
lution. Ihe iook °* satisfaction on the
invalid’s face,however when I hesitated,
settled me, and I had him brought into
the inspecting room, and sent for a
physical! before examining him, as I
wished to take no risks. When the doc
tor came he felt the man’s pulse and
looked puzzled. “There is noth ng the
matter with that man,” he said finally,
“except extraneous skin poisoning.” You
may be sure I had him believe stripped rather
quickly. Would you it? His
skin was as white and soft as a baby’s,
with the exception of five red lumps on
the inner side of the thighs that looked
like large, undeveloped boils or car
buncles. The physician examined these
curiously and then said to hold him.
Three or four of us held him while the
doctor made an incision over one of the
lumps and extracted a diamond. Tou
see, the fellow had read that the dig
gers in the African miues sometimes used
this way for concealing valuable gems,
and he had tried it. He was the most
crestfallen invalid you ever saw, for, be-
3 ides having had all his sufferings for
nothing, he was out about $12,000.
“Mauy persons have an idea that smug
gling is not dishonest. One well known
business man was caught of in trying to get
through untaxed a lot velvets valued
at $50,000. He made himself liable to
pay a large tine—some thousands of
dollars. He paid the amount without a
murmur, but stated when he did so that
he did not consider that he had done
anything wrong. A prominent gentle
man, who would not for the world com
mit an act which he considered dishon
est, was caught smuggling diamonds
concealed in gelatine capsules in a medi
cine bottle. He did not appear abashed
in the slightest degree.
“The smuggler, in his anxiety to
avoid detection, will indicate by his
manner that he is trying to do some
thing which he ousht not. I know of a
case where a cripple on crutches ex
cited my suspicions by just that look of
guilt consciousness, and I took him in
to be searched. The ocher officers
laughed at me, but tightly rolled up in
the hollow leg of one of the crutches
were several pieces of very valuable fare.
Yes, sir, a man that can successfully
pass through the ordeal of those few
moments of inspection hand would make a
mighty good at a game of bluff, I
can tell you.
“Some very curious expedients are re¬
sorted to by women smugglers, who
are of course searched in a separate
room by persons of their own sex. A
common way for men to smuggle dia¬
monds is to put them in a money belt
that goes around the waist. Gold
watches are also smuggled in that way,
but the practiced fingers the of an officer
can generally detect presence of
anything that does not belong there,
Sometimes, of course, mistakes are ;
made and innocent persons unjusly bus- j
netted, therefore officers have to use a
: eat deal of circumspection.
“It is not difficult for aa expert to
scover diamonds hidden in the lining
clothing, for delicacy long experience of touch develops which
marvelous it
hard to deceive. People who wrap
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natural proportions. It is an every day
matter to discover valuable laces hidden
beneath women’s skirts, and the decline
of the bustle will be a severe blow to the
female smuggler. False bottoms in
trunks, hat boxes and dressing cases
often conceal diamonds and jewelry,
and humpbacks have been caught with
humps fact made device out of gold watches. be In
every that can possibly
thought of has been utilized by the
smuggling fraternity, and the successful
inspector must have the keenness of the the
fox, the nose of the hound and
sense of fec-ling possessed by the blind,
to cope with them. If you wish to
secure for yourself a liberal education as
a judge of human nature become a cus
toms inspector.”
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Living in Japan is very cheap.
One quart of sifted flour weighs one
pound,
Jersey is rejoicing over the find of a
two tailed rabbit.
The son of a Duke has become a retail
hatter in London.
A tramp killed by an engine at Venice,
Ill., had on twelve shirts,
Miniature painting has seemed in dan
g ° Cr D f becoming a lost art.
There isn’t a city, town, or village in
all France named Napoleon.
A I lorida alligator seven feet long has
been found hiding in a hollow tree,
| A young man died in La Grande, Ore
gon, recently of over-exertion in danc
ing.
j The most ancient known coins are of
tbe fiftb centurv B- c>> an a are Mace
t j on j, xn _
, Rev. Phillips Brooks recently de¬
livered a sermon of 3000 words in
fifteen minutes.
,
They say that they have discovered an
extinct volcano in the immediate vicinity
of Birmingham, Ala.
Private detectives are now employed wed
to watch the gifts at fashionable
dings in Philadelphia,
One of the benevolent society fads is
to give conceits for the beuetit of the
j starving dogs of London,
^ portion of the fourth division of the
j{ nss j an ca valry recently rode sixty-five
miles in six hours and a quarter,
, The hawk, , , although regarded . , by .. the
; Egyptians as sacre », is mentioned three
times in the Bible ai an unclean bir .
In 1088-9 the Baron La Hontan made
a canoe expedition in Minnnesota waters,
from November to March, without Le¬
tention by ice.
Colonel Stewart, of Nevada City, Nev ,
has provided in his will that his body le
j cremated and the ashes damped into the
r iver at midnight.
j Plutarch tells us that the cranes were
blinded and kept in coops to fatten foi
tables of the nobles of Greece and the
fcagtg of tbe rich in Rome .
Snow fell at Pensacola, Fla., a few
weeks _ ago which , . , is . 4 the . second , fall - n of 4
snow that has occurred at that point in
tae . , ^ ast ter , of , a century,
j fl uar
j Tintorretta’s The largest “Paradise.” painting in It the is world eighty- is
four feet wide and thirty-five feet high,
j It is now in the Doge's Palace, Venice,
J A strange species of insanity, leading
its victims to miscall every visible ob
J ject, has Orphan attacked School the pupils McAlisterville, in the Sol¬
dier’s at
Penn.
j charit About who one-half the George applicants W. Childs, for
call on
j tbe p bi i a delphi C philanthropist,threaten aid
to comm jt su j C ide if he refuses to
tbem> an( j be bob3 U p au( j accedes to
demand '
! , W. Marlborough Livingston r . . TT Hamersley, favorite , the Duchess , the
s cousin, is
P rou< I possessor of the oldest bottle ol
j 'Jamaica rum in the country. It is ex
actly ninety years old, and belonged tc
^ 1S grandfather, William Brandegee.
An African trader has so trained a
young gorilla that it follows him around
like a dog. It recently accompanied
him on a tramp of twenty mile3. The
animal does numerous tricks, and is so
docile that its master doesn’t hesitate to
allow it to sleep with him.
j Among the curious fish displayed ou
Ithe stands in P ulton Market, New Vork
city, is a flounder-like fish which swims
on edge and is knoVn as trigger fish. It
derives his soubriquet from its dorsal fin
which is so constructed as to resemble
the hammer and trigger of a gun. The
hammer can Le half and whole cocked
and cannot be let down except by press
ing D the trigger,
The Ideal Hound,
_ *3? ,. makeup , of . a typical , . , , , , be
^ English or American, he should not
be extremely good in one point at the
expense of another, as the work that
hound ? are called upon to do demands
a perfectly should be symmetrical straight whole. barrels, His
£ j, e eet S 8 r 9 un ^’, com P act an as d gun catlike in
formation; deep in chest and broad in
back, head well formed, neck thin and
arched, tail thick and brushy and car¬
ried jauntily in the air, with a voice
rich and mellow, for the latter to a fox
hunter is music far above the grandest
chords of Mozart or Beethoveu .—New
York Herald.
Cocoanuts for a Circulating Medium,
In Venezuela all manner of makeshifts
have been resorted to for supplying a
“circulating medium.” In Quanta, for
example, and the when people have absolutely no
money, they wish to purchase
a few necessaries they steal cocoanuts
by “the dark of the moon” and ex
change them for supplies. This custom
Le ame so general and so disastrous to
the fruit growers that the Alcaide was
obliged to issue a decree prohibiting the
use of cocoanuts as money.
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