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Show DIAMOND SMUGGLING. The m With Whic!. Precious Stones of Large Value May Be Concealed. One of the simplest devices for eruog-gling eruog-gling diamonds is that of the .hollow heeled shoe. It is asserted that boots and shoes constructed so as to leave a small vacant space in the heels are easily obtained in Europe, and they are especially espe-cially manufactured for the purpose ot supplying smugglers with a means for escaping detection. The poroixs plaster has often served as a means of secreting diamonds. When it is understood that $10,000 vorth of diamonds or more can easily be inclosed in a paper parcel about an wide as this column, 1 inches high and about a quarter of an inch thick, it is easy to comprehend that such a package can be kept securely in place by means of an innocent but highly serviceable porous plaster. One of the most ingenious methods ever employed was the use of a cake of soap, wherein a number of diamonds had been imbedded. It is highly probable proba-ble that this plan would have proved successful had it not been that the officers offi-cers of the government had received information in-formation that the suspected person had diamonds with him and searched his effects ef-fects so thoroughly that they examined even the gem studded block of soap. The wife of this smuggler helped her spouse, and her plan was not less ingenious ingen-ious than that of her husband. Her hat was ornamented with bunches of grapes which under ordinary circumstances would only have awakened the envy of other wearers of bonnets. Within tho grapes were diamonds and faucy stones of great value. Another smuggler was especially provided pro-vided by Providence with a smuggling device in the shape of a heavy covering of thick, bushy hair, which he arranged so that it stood up from his forehead like an impenetrable bush. Within this mass of heavy hair he deposited a goodly good-ly stock of diamonds and succeeded for a time in escaping the vigilance of the custom house official! As these schemes have become known to the custom house authorities the ingenuity in-genuity of smugglers bWT&en more se-verely se-verely taxed. A recent discovery disclosed dis-closed the following ' elaborate plan, which succeeded a grea'.t many times before be-fore it was discovered: Two smugglers operated in partnership. partner-ship. The first crossed the ocean and before be-fore leaving the wharf reserved a return berth for a certain date. The date and the number of the berth were at once cabled to his accomplice in America. Having purchased his diamonds, in due time he returned to this country in accordance ac-cordance with the instructions previously previous-ly cabled. No amount of examination resulted in finding any diamonds upon his person. Meanwhile, however, his partner had secured the same berth. When the day for sailing came, partner part-ner No. 2, accompanied by his family, entered the cabin and extracted from a secure hiding place several paroels of diamonds left there by his accomplice. These he handed to his tearful family, who after bidding him goodby left the steamer unsuspected and brought the diamonds into the market. It took a long time to discover this scheme. Jewelers' Jewel-ers' Weekly. . j |