Show How the Government Loses Millions a INSTITUTION of criminal prosecu 1 1 lions against perpetrators of sleeper sleep-er trunk customs frauds with ramifications ramifi-cations In all parts of tho country tho pressing of existing Indictments to avoid lapses under the statute of limitations and the customs investigation investiga-tion generally were discussed at a conference con-ference at the treasury department re etitly Secretary of tho Treasury MacVeagh Attorney General Wicker shun Collector Loeb of tho port oft of-t w York and United States District Utorney Henry A Wise of tho south irn district of Now York participated Tho sleeper trunk frauds where by goods are brought Into this country III trunks with false bottoms to deceive de-ceive the inspectors stretch to many parts of the United States though passing only through the port of Now York in the cases about to bo prosecuted prose-cuted Beyond the generalization of millions mil-lions of dollars nobody officially can estimate the amount of taxes thus evaded Most of the violators of law In this respect are dressmakers The government has a good deal of evidence evi-dence along this Hue and the prosecutions prose-cutions for tills form of wholesale dishonesty dis-honesty promises to bo of n sensational sensation-al character Collector Loeb expressed the opinion opin-ion that tho sleeper trunk frauds could no longer bu carried on successfully suc-cessfully under tho ruIns ho 1m adopted Those provldo for a now I stamp arrangement for trunks and limitation of tho hours a trunk mar remain on the docks |