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Show COLLECTOR LOEB LEARNS OF NEW FRAUD METHOD Now York, Aug 211. Collector William Wil-liam Loch, Jr, has learned of a new method to defraud the government of customs duties. Information has been laid before him snowing that In the last fifteen years fully fifty violins brought to this country by virtuosls as a tool of trade and admitted duty free, have since been sold for prices ranging from $fi0fi to $l,uoo. The customs cus-toms d'ity on violins Is 15 per cent ad valorem, and the collector estimated that the loss to the government will approximate $Cn 000. ne haa hope? thrniirh tho catalogues of well known instruments, which are everywhere kept by dealers, of tracing most of the In-jtrumenLs recently Imported. L |