Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-02-28 | Page 6 | Smuggling Denied by Mrs. Chadwick

SMUGGLING DENIED BY MRS. CHAD WICK CLEVELAND. O., Feb. 28. Mrs. Cassis Cas-sis L. Chadwlck has given out her side of the investigation that Customs Collector Col-lector Leach has been carrying- on for the past few weeks. Collector Leach bas taken possession of many thousands of dollars' worth of stuff that once belonged to Mrs. Chadwlck and has thrown the burden of proof on its present owners to prove that Mrs. Chadwlck paid duty on the stuff when it was imported. "If any one has turned property over to Mr. Leach at his demand, they have acted very foolishly and in ignorance of their rights," declared Mrs. Chadwlck. "There is. not a dollar's worth of atuff I ever owned that was 'smuggled Into this country, and the people who now have anything I ever had ought to bear this In mind and refuse to allow Mr. Leach to seise the property.- - - - - "If Mr. Leach has obtained any Jewelry in the East it Is Jewelry that I sacrificed sacri-ficed as security on loans made in the years 1902-'O3. At that time I. made several sev-eral large loans In the East and secured them strongly, with personal Jewelry as collateral. Subsequently it developed that the men from whom I had borrowed the money demanded such exorbitant commissions com-missions that -T forfeited the security rather, than pay them their utterly unjust un-just fees. . .- - .. . "I will make this offer to Mr. Leach: If he will go Into any court in the land and prove that one single dollar's worth of the property he has seised was smuggled smug-gled by me, or for me. I will plead guilty to every single one of the multitudinous Indictments against me." Mrs. Chadwlck was equally vehement in denying the rumors that she has a' fortune for-tune somewhere in the old country."