SMUGGLING JEWELS.
A IUJSE THAT FAILED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPA RIGHT. SYDNEY, Aug. 21. Ernest Bosshard was lined £oOO. in default one year’s imprisonment, Ml a charge that lie smuggled £17,000 worth of jewellery into the Commonwealth. Bosshard. who arrived in Australia as a traveller for a firm of diamond merchants in Paris, paid duty on some cheap jewellery on arrival, hut, when seen later in an hote\ he admitted that he had smuggled valuable jewellery by sewing it in liis clothes. In a, statement he blamed the Customs officer, and the latter was suspended, but later was reinstated. The Cnown alleged that Bosshard is a member o,f a gang of international smugglers who defeated the Customs in India. Japan and Shanghai. Under the Act the jewellery is forfeited to tho Government.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 August 1925, Page 5
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