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Show oo FALSE TIP LEADS TO A DISROBING NEW YORK, March 17 Tho wife and daughter of Joseph Hull, of Savannah, Sa-vannah, Ga , one of the wealthiest men In the south, were required to disrobo i In their staterooms aboard tho steamship steam-ship Lusitanla today, whllo a cubtoms , lnpcctress, acting on a mysterious tip, subsequentlj found -to be false, made I a search for a diamond necklacoi thought to havo been purchdsod j abroad. Tho search proving futile, Mrs. -Hull and Miss Hull were allowed 1 to proceed to their hotel, where .an-1 othyr, Miss Nina Hull, convalescing from an attack of typhoid fovor, bad preceded them without having been subjoct to search. The necklace rumor ru-mor dismissed, customs inspectors scrutinized tho family baggage, and charging under valuations In tho case of Mrs, Hull and tho dauyhter, Eliza L., siczed the articles in question. ' Mother aud daughter maintained thoy acted In good faith, but their explanations ex-planations wore not considered satisfactory satis-factory to Collector Loeb, and the articles ar-ticles were seized. The contest entirely entire-ly of wearing apparol aud will bo hold ' until "tho 'homo value," that Is, the ' foreign cost, plus duty, 13 paid. . Joseph Hull was on the pier to greet his wlfo and daughter, as was a son, Daniel, a cotton broker, here. All were Indignant at the proceedings and threaten to carry the matter tb the courts, .i 4vt"a, were inade ii take off even our stockings' s,ald Mrs.,, Hull. "Every stitch ' of our clothing'' was searched and even Qur hair did not escape. I consider this treatmcntiran putragp, and I hud no idea suc1a thlncj could happen on American solL'V It was explained for the family that the report concerning the necklace probably had come from Savannah, where "there was Jealousy" over the fact that tho Hulls were fortunate enough to enjoy foreign luxuries and finery. Ab to the under-valuatlon charge, Daniel Hull said: "My sister, Eliza, was the only one of tho three who had previously been abroad, so my father sent a wireless warning to my mother and my sister to bo very careful " ' Joseph Hull came from Savannah to meet his wife and daughter, He is president of the Merchants1 National bank of that city, chairman of tho board of directors of ?tlie Savannah Tnist company, and a director of .the Central Railroad of Georgia. |
