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Show Smuggle $18,000 Worth of Gowns Culprits Cited To Appear In Court and Tell Why They Were Tempted New York, May 14. Charges ot smuggling were mado this afternoon against the Misses Agnes Mangels and Agnes Tillman qt San Francisco, who reached hero May 12 on the steamship Amerlka, and their gowns and Jewels, approximately $18,000 In value, havo been seized by tho customs cus-toms authorities. Tho seizures Include- property of Miss Tillman's mother. mo-ther. The charges aro contained lu a report mado to Collector Loeb by Surveyor General Henry after a two day Investigation. District Attorney Vreelnnd of tho New Jersey district has cited the two women to appear In tho federal court at Trenton on Monday Mon-day to answer tho charge. Hearings will bo held In Now Jersey Jer-sey because tho Amerlka docks at Hoboken. Omission to declare proper prop-er value of goods brought from nbrcad Is the basis ot tho charge. Miss Tillman declared dutiable articles arti-cles valued at $740, according to her own estimate. Tho appraisers placed plac-ed tho.r value at $4,000, however, after af-ter making liberal allowance for wear Thoy held tho gowns of fine Parisian mako to bo worth 3,000 and Jewelry $1,000. Miss Mangels, who Is Miss Tillman's aunt, placed tho value of her dutiable effects at $812, but tho customs inspectors Bald they were worth $10,300, Including $5,000 worth of Jewelry. Tho total valuo of $18,-000 $18,-000 placed on all the property solzed Includes the duty for Importing It. Fourteen trunks and a few handbags hand-bags woro examined after being taken ta-ken from Miss Tillman, Miss Mangels and Miss Tillman's mother, Mrs. Frederick Tillman, Jr., upon their arrival' ar-rival' at Hoboken. Miss Tillman declared de-clared for her mother as well as herself, her-self, so Mrs. Tillman does not figure ofllclnlly In tho caso. She was present pres-ent with hor. daughter and Miss Mangels, Man-gels, who Is her sister, and a fourth woman, and tljo attorneys tho women had retained, at the hearing .this afternoon- Miss Tillman and Miss Mangels Bought to convince Cqllector Loeb that tholr mlstako In declaring 'was due to Ignorance of tho customs regulations. |