| Show Uncle Sam and the Ingenious Diamond Smugglers Some of the Tricks Played by Those Who Do Not Pay Duty say KaY that smuggling la II not what It used to ba They lI declare that time the of t tI the guile has de deput put parted I and tint that for time tho atonal bungling attempt ot of soma ama amateur tour It hUll has sunk to the tho ot of petty limo days ot of professional smuggling on lie tho great grat liners are no III 0 IU they maintain owing to tit the vigorous have been beell put forth to suppress It False botton I mod other devices lit of that nA nAtura lure tura aro seen Jut but rarely out ot of passengers oho ho passed the tho last year Umbra thero t only six who tried to enter the thu country with false bottomed trunks All 11 ot of those vero Second cabin 1 In spite ot of thc these o and reas reasI I the United States treasury has recently found foun It necessary to make maka un an extended In Is Into what has called time the timet t underground wn of nt I time ho trade The Tho scope of at this it seems is II likely to three con before tho h o exact truth Is IsI s t I brought rought to light This tae ne I on time tho part ot of the tho treasury dials clala Is duo tl to the complaints ot of the Diamond importers and Cutters I whIch the statement not long since that as many precious stones being smuggled d into time till country as fume In openly with duty paid that gems ems worth wurth carne In last yen year without duty Soma curious facts taets have come to light during this lh Investigation It appears e that when tIle the gems more lire shipped from the tho South Southa African neli no reliable record of oC them Is obtainable Although tile the output Is lJ sent nt to London then distributed to all parts Qt tutu tho globe they do not n om r among tho lino exports from the tho r United Thus dodo Is favored greatly by the III secrecy k with which It Is s carried on anI and by the lack lit of proper record A neat scheme to get the stones Into limo tho country without duty bas hns recently como come to light One ot of time largest larRest Ira porters In III America hils bl been en receiving large quantities of at stones In the tho rough There Is Ito no duty on uncut lamond and tits tho was getting noth t In log from these thes large importations It happened that on an Inspector discovered that nanny ot of t time ho e were marked markell In pale Ink lines so 80 faint ns as scarcely to be detected by the tho naked i eye turned out tl to be marks I I It rte S showing tine tho line lIno ot of cleavage Their presence on the tho stones saved the hn him porter front the tho of ut a 11 cleaver who is III the tho high priced artist ot of limo tho cutting business Theo Innocent lines added greatly to time the value alue of at the tho stones The depart department ment very promptly put 1 a cut stone value ahlo Oil on the tho marked gems That diamond smuggling Is not proy pre n a lost art less been proved ty ly conclusively during the past year About a year ear ago ugo hall hail hallIng hailing Ing from flom mantled landed In III Boston Hoston with n teacupful ot of floe stones In hi his possession Ho lcd In passing tho custom on house without do and proceeded tl to Chicago where ho begun to otter offer limo tho gems toline to line tho dealers All UI might lIne havo Gone well with hum hall bud not lima tho ot of Ills his stock time tho wonder roused till the suspicion of oC one ot of lain hili cUstomers lie He arrested and he had the tho din dla Into the tho but refused absolutely to the method metho ho he had tided to evade the customs custom Nor could ho bo made to tell ho hew he did It It t Is isas liS as much ot of n mystery m today us over ever It wn was The Tho professional smuggler ma stay moot lot ho bo liS as picturesque In recent years ears liS as formerly but lie ho exists still Neither I Is the amateur extinct The Tho human I still a clu elasticity In matters that concern On tf sl r t N rt tL uj 1 V t jt ss f AT WORK I I I t JA IA REVENUE c Cry N w Hovel Ar Kl w I i M II AI I do clo Sam ot Of course there must also be betaken taken Into time tile consideration the tho tact fact that there tie some who re gird smuggling ns as n a highly lag In game Ime and who derIve Infinite nt and even comfort comfert from the contemplation ot of their own clover clever moose In eluding the ho custom lIou o ot of racer The secret fi cret service agents discovered long ago that most of oC the genes smug smuggled into Inte the country come by WRY way ot of Canada There Thero Is III n regular smug smugglers rt roulo uto from Montreal to No Now York n a track trad so o well covered thAt no treasury agent has hall been able to inure mallo an I map of at It The Tho Dominion admits free ot of duty Iut A Smuggler ma may In with withas as hi big u a load or of gems II as he can carry and no ono one need bo be the wiser There Thero Is no r record taken ot at the tho point ot of land Ins and Uncle secret service servicemen men cannot profitable then from the Canadian custom dials Of OC course thero Is IL a thorough search made at all aft points at which n a road crosses tho bonier but there are 1110 many mall other ways ot of making the Jour Journ journay nay n The fh treasury has been very thorough In n Itt Its efforts to make mako diamond 1 smuggling unattractive In III Pals for Instance the United States government several agents tt hoso dUty It Is to report to our cus customs toms o I whenever n a valuable tone stone Is purchased by 1 n citizen ot of tills this country It If an traveling abroad becomes the owner or of a 11 line diamond during hIs slay In Paris and andon andon on ills return to his hll native lani for tor gotH gets to mention time Iho hart falt Imo ho Is pretty sure surd to bo b u sumo by br the customs rustom on landing and to lo be reminded rat at hits his lapse of oC This espionage would bo be more successful It if the tho dealers could bo be convinced more thoroughly ot of the tho Ju justness ot of Uncle Sams case ot of th them do donot not find It to their Interest to the tho protective tarl tariff DIamonds are such n It concentrated kind of at treasure and may bo be concealed so 80 successfully that It Is doubtful It the treasury department would bra bo able to collect any duty duly It If It were hIgh enough ellough to male make smuggling very e liven gen all t Is t there hero Is so much crook clook crookedness edness that It keeps the departments agents on the tho alert continually means that human ingenuity can inns hall been to trick Irick the tho government in III Its search tot for tribute money Homo ot of them are III as absurd u us they nee Me effectual A hollow cane calo belonging to I a man who hail had n Il lasto for ellch Irregularities Is 18 said to have made twelve voyages returning each time with n load ot of genus gems It night might havo go gone no on indefinitely but bul for the Intel that It its was a 1 victim ot of the thirteen luller superstition and would not risk It There Thero I is another I record cord or of n a teho ho nb a from a box belonging to her and 1 fount on biting Into It that ties II a tinco carat diamond nI n it glass that adorned II a lay bt tat hat found to hale d Bons In them It I I would WOld have been discovered U Uh young had not much 1 it III handling Ihl that t the tho Inspector spotted her herTine Tine bustle was n II a favorite and s place rat lit concealment alit was wall n a grief to diamond glen bl blIt It went Int out ot of ta Hollo t tires bru brush h handles cork 11 bP calves and dolls lIolis have hae vII bw employed nn In oUK tt II of good sized lug Ins III discovered behind mi II I loron Phan W t which adorned a smugglers chest chesl long o offender It d dIdea Idea IdIa of at removing time tho powder from to e hint hind tho lino bullets 11 in cartridges putting diamonds la In t Li t before bs II i cavities Another Ju just I a searched In Iris his stateroom stat droNed In In the rad small fortune gema pitcher One ot of the most and devices vas wat that of the doP who trio carried t II Hh him a rt with n pouch that safe saCo hiding place piece for tOI largo large nUI the Iho 1 Il ot of gents A tow years car uS ast n nto I belonging to n II solemn CW WAS to the fa to leI leIt A very ck precious practiced by b t trick long In a ro CO the tho liners was tf to cart gents this bot boc s 8 box hox Just before thrown overboard tomb as picked b by a In to a 31 J scheme that ins 1115 but for fot 11 agro 1 bY the government bought ho wits Willi b by a I a Good deal ot of champagne f tor line tho corks voyage and kept to rot COd he Ir In tiles carl valuable an ot J cent a r arrival in r ort rt pre On tho day of oC tt Inc lug to bo be intoxicated eone ot f tint the CI cU er even cor passengers who bAd rG ammo house l 1 Irti lid 1 by pelting n a O with thele Meer 10 t Is t corks ho r cst td h I he never t ID If c feen usTine I chi mink k The hi mUI fl k and Ant s Indignant 8 illy jovial a Ill joV td The I Ille f end tl he h e throW threw P sliver dollar awn |
