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Show Smuggler In the Toils. Capo Girardeau, Mo. After posing for a week as a lieutenant in tho United States marine corps, C. H. Harrington, Har-rington, recently arrived from tho Philippines, tried to kill himself with chloroform, nfter conresslng, according to tho prosecuting uttorney, that ho was a smuggler, nnd not a navy officer. Harrington's trunk was lost by a rail raid, and after Identifying diamonds, silks and bric-a-brac which It contained, con-tained, ho was arrested. IIo said ho had brought tho goods Into this country coun-try frco of duty by paying a brlbo to a customs officer. |