Show LAWSUIT OVER PEARLS Government Seeks to Recover 1 I Additional Duty on Them New York City Ch July 8 UnIted United 8 United States Slates District Attorney I Henry hInry nr L L SUns Stinson on has begun suit auk ll In fn the United States Circuit court against Bernard Berar Citroen an arm an V Importing Im im- im poUn porting Jeweler jeler of Paris and of M GC CC C Beaver street lor br This Is the tho- tho amount the Government claims calm In unpaid duty ona on ona a pearl necklace which It Is alleged Citroen imported for or William U. U Leeds of or orthe the American Sheet and Tin Plate prate compan company com corn pan pain on os the Touraine on June S 8 Tine The he necklace is said sald b by experts to be be tho the finest ever ver brought Into this country I Tho The question at al stake slake Is ls of or Importance to tha to jewelry trade trade Indeed tho the Government Gov Coy would have havo ha e no grounds for or tine suit and would have to pass the pearls as ds pearls In ln the natural state slate accepting the tho 10 per cent duty uty of or which Citroen Cit I roen paid on them had it not obtained evidence vJ that tha th tho th Jewels had been bought boughtin bough in Europe in a necklace for sale hero to Leeds and after at r coming cominS through th the custom house as loose looe pearls Tho The necklace it 13 Is alleged contained 8 thirty seven ven beautifully matched pearls and was exhibited for Cor sale by b the Jewelry house of oC Carter In the Rue de e la- la la laPaix Paix Pat Pa-j Pa lars Mr Leeds It 1 Is stated saw U It i there mind and expressed a wish to bu buy It lt forI for his wJ wife when he asked the ne flu was told that It 1 would be 3 0 on delry delt- delt delivery del del- I cry ery to him In this his country Tills TiTis was waa with wih the duty uty paid aid Tho Tine Government Go lays inva a tax of or ri f G per cent nt a ad nil valorem on Jewelry In which class the necklace would faThe ta fa fall The European value of ot the necklace waD wao wa set st at which wih with the dut at ti I per pcr cent amounting to O make the tIne total cost value aue of or the tho necklace necklace neck neck- lace Ince after ater passing the custom house here S. S Mr r. r Leeds was thus titus getting the lie necklace practically At nt cost COt and he ho no mo demur when It lt was as stipulated that nothing should be said of oC this arrangement arrange arrange- menu ment ment Bought nought Necklace V Citroen who isho had l Tie necklace necklace neck neck- lace race then as 3 the Government alleges bought It i as nR a necklace laying laJb down a heavy deposit on the the purchase price on Jim UI the way ov over r the G Government alleges ru n r. r cut th the string and packed packet the pearls perls pc rh ana m an ma o a box loose At the tho custom hou house e th tb th I J pearls wen wert admired the value of oC I was accepted by the board o ot 01 appraisers and anc after nn an n appeal to Washington Cit CIl- CI- CI roen's classification of oC loose pearls was wa acc accepted conditionally Citroen paul patti 22 SM WI Mi at the 10 p per r cent rate an and took the pearls wih with him aim 1 At this point the Paris representative of or time the tie Jewelers Jewelers' Protective Alliance in informed iii- iii 1 formed his hla hil organization here that the tine thep p pluIs anti and ane been bought assembled ed In tine the and had been broken up b by Cit cn- Citroen roen noon after an agreement with Leeds that Leeds would buy huy them as a Q necklace m in inthis I this countr country The arrangement It I is rs at- at I was made to allow the Jewelers to duty reap the tue profit of saved sa ed on tho thu Protest Protect I District A Attorney ore Stinson n and arid Assistant I District Attorney Francis Francs J J. Carmody worked up the ca case o with wih Collector Stranahan I han and filed the tho suit yesterday amer ter t serving tho the summons Hummons and complaint on omm 01 1 Citroen A decision handed down by t tUnie ta Unie United l V States Circuit Court oC or Appeals two years a ago o laid down cown the tine ruling that pears pearls polished and anc pierced were still RUl pearls in the tho nn natural tucal tate state ana ano so 80 ar are arn ratable at 10 per ner c cent nt Jewelers here say that thal they will wil have to RO go o out oC of business It if such transactions as IS tha tin Un which Citroen Cit CU- Ci- Ci 1 roen has tins engaged arc are decided to be le led legi- l- l ec Tho The proposition that a 1 tiara tara can bo le separated Into Its It constituent parta Uinta or of In Europe and assembled us- us setting Jewels and Europe us- us again here hero for delivery cUe thus thu dodging sixths rive ot of o the tine duty duLy would leave leavo them thoy thc tho way Bay nt r tilt of ot llie Oja tC them x European n manufacturing Jeweler |