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Show Buy Your Prunellas While Tiicy Are Cheap. New York, 15. To-day special treasury agents seized several cases ot prunellas worth $5,000, smuggled from Montreal. It is alBO aaerLed that Samuel Stratford, of West Forty-first Forty-first street, and Charles B. Spencer, living at Earle'a hotel, are charged with boing in the conspiracy. They were held to bail by United States Commissioner Shiolds. For years past agents have been trying to discover dis-cover the smugglers, and at last they have discovered the whole plot. JL). McCIanaghan, proprietor of the Ex-, press hotel, Montreal, is the head and front of the conspiracy, and several United states inspectors and baggage masters at Montreal, and telef-ranh operators were in commission with him. He produced duplicate checks, one of which he would attach to a box containing goods, aud the other he sent to the purchaser. The in-spectors in-spectors were telegraphed by cipher the number of tho check on the baggage bag-gage and passed it through without examination. The government has been defrauded out of vast buuib by the smugglers, and the plot was one of the deepest and best planned ever discoverrd by the officials. McCIanaghan McCIan-aghan is worth a half million of dol- luto, |