SMUGGLED GEMS ASHORE IN SHOES
Liners Electrician Spotted by Officials
GANG SUBSEQUENTLY
ARRESTED
[By Electric Cable-Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Thursday 7.30 p.m) NEW YORK, Nov, 9.
An unusual scheme for smuggling diamonds into the United States was uncovered by keen-eyed Customs agents who noticed Lamot, second electrician of the liner Lapland, wearing shoes apparently several sizes too large for him when the latter left the ship at the pier here to-day. It was discovered that the heels and toes of the shoes contained compartments holding 100,000 dollars' worth of these jewels_ Lamot, under surveillance of Government agents then distributed tho gems to his principals, and five men and one woman were arrested and are being held on 210,000 dollars’ bail on a chri'go of conspiracy to smuggle in about a million dollars’ worth of diamonds. The Government agents state that actually several million dollars’ worth of gems have been smuggled by this group which, with headquarters in Antwerp, worked out an intricate system of avoiding the Customs. Other arrests are expected.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 6454, 11 November 1927, Page 8
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