NECKLACE OF TRESSES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14326, 17 October 1910, Page 2

NECKLACE OF TRESSES

A MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE.

CHARGED AYITH SMUGGLING.

The craze of the American society woman for smuggling jewellery pvucliased in Europe past the Customs officers at New York has landed Mrs R. Adrianee, wife of a prominent millionaire resident of Poughkeepsie, New York, in a distinctly uni>U>asant predicament.. It has also brought down upon her the wrath of ordinary tourists, because she has supplied the arch-tyrant Chief Collector Loeb with a justification of the inquisitorial raids, for which he is so heartily detested (states a New York correspondent). Mrs. Adrianee arrived at New \ork by the White Star liner Baltic, but neglected to "declare" a handsome pearl necklace which she had purchased for £1.200 in Europe. The Customs department had become aware of the purchase through the columns of the society papers, and the lady was roquosted to accompany tho officers to her cabin.

The, cabin and her trunks were sttbioetcd to a searching examination, >nd Mrs. Adrianee had to submit- to the indignity of a personal search by tho official female searchers. The searchers discovered nothing until they turned their attention to the lady's handsome coiffure, whereupon the necklace, which had boon cunningly concealed n-ongst her tresses, dropped to the Mrs. Adrianee was formally charged with attempting to defraud the Customs, but was released on bail f £1,500.