Smart was the handsome young crook in possession of a veinable diamond. His ship was nearing New York, and he had good reason 4o believe that there would be detectives there to meet him. So he pretended to members of the crew that he was a famous figure travelling incognito.
"I want to avoid being pestered by reporters," he declared. men agreed to smuggle him asher in a dirty old boiler suit, and he got away.
Some blue diamonds were smug gled into Britain in a shaving stick. and a man with a glass eye was employed to smuggle a famous gem into America. A hole was drilled in the back of the glass eye and the jewel inserted.
A woman was suspected of smuggling perfumes. Officials went on Board ship and confronted her. She seized the scent and threw it all overboard.
"Now I haven't any," she triumph-But legally she were inflicted.
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