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Show HOLD WOMEN ; SMUGGLERS Two San Francisco I Girls Face Serious Charge in New York, Complaint Alleges $18,000 Worth of Un-; Un-; declared Goods Were Brought in Nw York. May 15. Charges f'f smuggling were mad" yesterday afternoon af-ternoon ac.iinRt the Mlssf?. gncH I Mangels and Agnes Tillman of San I Frnnclfico who reached here May 12 I on the steamship merlkn. and their j gowns and Jewels approximating $ls-nno $ls-nno in value, have been scl.t-d by ihr customs aufhorliieg The seizures include in-clude property of Miss Tillman's mo ther The charges are contained in a report made to Collector Loeb by Purveyor Oneral Henry after a two-day two-day investigation District Attorney Vreeland of the New Jersey district h.is cited the two women to appear in the federal court at Trenton next Monday io answer tee chnrrrf Hearings will be held In New Jer sey because the Amertka docks at Ho-boken Ho-boken Omission to declare proper value of goods brought from abroad is the basis of the charge Miss Till man declared dutiable articles valued at $740 according to her own esti mate The appraisers placed the'.r .aliie at 4,000, however, after mnk-;ng mnk-;ng liberal allowance for wear. They held the nowns of rine F'arislnn mak" to be worth $1,000 and Jewelry $1,000 Mis Mannels who ts Miss Tillman'-, nun; placed the value of her dutiable effects at $812 hut the customs inspectors in-spectors said th-y were worth $1" 100 including $5,600 worth of jewelry The total value of $18,000 placed on all the property seized includes the duty for importing it Fourteen trunks and a fc hand bags Tere examined after being taken from Miss Tillman. Miss Mangt Is ind Vflss Tillman's mother, Mrs Freder left Tillm in lr upon their arrival at I HObokan M isp. Tillman declared for her mother as well as herself, so Mrs i Tillman does not flRure officially in I the case She was present with her I daughter and MISS Mangels, who is her sister, and i fourth woman and ' the attorneys the women had retained Mrs Tillman and Miss Mangels BOUght I to convince Collector Loeb that their mistake in declaring was due to ignorance ig-norance of the customs regulations |