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Show DRUG SMUGGLER CAUGHT. f Arrested While Removing Valuable Lot From Pier. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Customs agents In Hoboken have arrested a longshoreman longshore-man In the act of removing from a dock a bag containing 3S0 ounces of a drug used in the treatment of consumption, which Is said to be worth In this country coun-try $150 an ounce. The prisoner declared the bag was handed to him over the side of a steamer just in from Europe and that he was told to carry it immediately imme-diately to an address in Manhattan, where he would be well paid.' Officials of the customs service are of the opinion that there Is an organized gang of drug smugglers operating here largely In the. manner described by the longshoreman A duty of 25 per cent prevails on nearly all medicinal preparations prepar-ations and drugs, making the successful smuggler lucrative returns. |