Show device of a brandy smuggler to conceal dutiable goods among tree free goods in any im importation Is esthe the prime ortense against apil rist the customs cisto lils laws yet the high rats rates bt bf duty on rome articles such as tobacco and spirits offer brer grat thap to 6 traders who employ oy all soft gorta a 0 at f artifices to ta smuggle or r evade the notice nolice of 0 the customs officers officer when silk was dutiable women were the chief chef offenders and ant no ne they some times wound tho the contraband article around their persons under their ordinary clothes cl it was found foun d feces sary eary to employ female searchers now no longer brou brought glit into requisition one s the latter on ono one occasion made a curious discovery A female smuggler had bad had constructed ted but not for running filk ellk contraband an india rubber dress tor for wearing under her ordinary clothes she appeared when this contrivance was waa in operation opera lon to be a very fat at woman in reality lity she was abnormally tlc abir but the he india rubber underwear was double and hollow and the space between tie te skins shins so to speak was filled with brandy |