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Show ALLEGED FRAUD IN COFFEE CLEARANCE NEW YORK, Aug! 18. Collector of Customs Stranahan conlucte1 an ex-anuniition ex-anuniition yesterday in re'.atlot. to tlx. rum plaint by Scott Truxton, fiovoro-meni fiovoro-meni agent of .the Porto Rico commercial commer-cial apency, that a firm h jra lmt made fr.uitlnlent declarations of a clearaiu' of coffee from New Yo.-k to fVito Rioo. It developed tbat the. .lecliuations wens made not by a member o the firm, bat by a boy employ! by it. In luanifest ). several hundred bug hi:li contained offee s 'thoico rej beans" the boy omitted to, write the word "coffee'' in the TfianlfesT, the firm explained. Mr. Btranahan told the fcrm tbat in the future li would not tolerate such a practice. He said, further, fur-ther, tl.at in fut ! ro each manifest murl be mnde tut by n.embers of tho firm. |