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ART DEALERS DEFRAUD THE GOVEKIIT Two Arrests Made and Others May Follow In Sensational Proceedings Uellevcd That Other Kiriiis Will Tall Into the Dragnet of the .. Govern. liH'nt Ulany of These Works of Art That Come Into the Country Without Paying Full Duty Are Now In the Homos of American Millionaires Federal Olllriiils IluiiNiick Kooins of Stores of Deal ers. .'-'X-"S ? ' ' ' ( Hy Loar.e.l Wire to Tuc Times.) Now York, Oct. 1 4 Unusual ac tivity about, tlio United States eus toms house today indicated that other raids would today follow Lie spec tacular move of the federal author ities against Duveen Brothers, the rich and prominent international art dcaliug linn. While no odlcial statement was forthcoming, the report that other art Arms would fall into the dragnet of the government would not down. Allegations that mlNions of dollars worth of art treasures brought into this country.-without the, payment of full customs duty had found their way into the palatial homes of J. Tlerponl Morgan, Henry Clay Flick, of Pittsburg;" the late C. T. Verkes, of Chicago; George Gould, the late Charles T. Harney and others brougat to the fore today the interesting question, "Can these works of art be seized by the government for unpaid duty'.'" Charged with a gigantic conspiracy to defraud the United States govern ment through the undervaluation of art works, Benjamin Duveen and Henry J. Duveen, brothers in the in ternational art concern bearing their name are held under $50,000 and '$?.', 000. bonds respectively, while the oflicials are working on various angles of the case. Similar charges have been hied against two other brothers, and an ' uncle who are members of the firm, but they are now in London, and it was reported that they would prob ably remain there, for some time at least. The Duveen exposure is the most sensational in die crusade of Collec tor William Loeb, Jr., of the port of New York against smuggling. Henry Duveen was arrested late last night as he left the steamship Mauritania, upon which tic had come from London. At tile same time depr uty collectors, armed with customs warrants, made a diligent search of Mr. Duvecn's belongings In the belief that he was bringing costly paintings into this country. Warrant for the arrest of Joel, Louis and Henry Duveen, who are now in London, will be held against (Special to The Times) Nashville, Oct. 14 Quite a good deal of interest has been created in republican political circles by the ap pointment of W. S. Bailey as post mastAr at, Snrinc Hope. It is inter esting in this connection to Rtate that Bailey was a Butler-Morehead sup nortor. while his strong opponent was John C. Matthews, who stayed by the Duncan folks until the very last. Matthews has done all the fighting in republican circles for Rome vears, and has made several races for the legislature, and now Ttailcv has walked in and carried oft the coveted plum. Some of the folks think it rather rough on Colonel Mat thews, while others are rejoicing that Colonel Bailey in a way a new re cruit has been recognized. " Demo . prata nre eniovlng tne fun. 'Colonel Bailey is the only owner-of an auto- mnhilft at or near Spring Hone, ant! thlrf mv exnlain his ' victory. The machine, however, is not' ft Xast one them. The offense with which they are charged is not extraditable. One of the charges against the Diif vcens relates that, on February 10, 1908, the three vases were brought into this country by the Duveens, the value of which they placed at $1,100, whereas the actual valuation, accord ing to data in the hands of the gov ernment, is ,$28,000. The richly furnished store rooms of the dealers were ransacked hy fed eral officers. The firm's books were seized and it is reported that it was from the books that much of the evi dence was secured. , It is believed that the government has instructed its foreign . police agents to secure what evidence they con against the Duveens in Paris, Lon don and Brussels, where the art lirm has International branches. The fed eral attaches hero were busy today building up their case against the two brothers already under arrest. The search for clus which will lead to tiie disclosure by the firm was tire lessly pushed. The Fifth Avenue shop of the Du veens has been .patronized by prac tically all of the multi-millionaire art lovers and at times members of the firm have been commissioned by wealthy patrons to collect treasures abroad for them. The government does not Indicate that it will try to implicate ric:i pa trons of the Duveen firm in the al leged conspiracy. However, it. was admitted that the sitting of the evi dence would bring in the names of rich and prominent Americans in a sensational light. ... It was reported that agents for the government were instructed to inter view certain wealthy Americans who own art stocked libraries. Some ot.j the paintings may be taken from the residences of these persons to be used as oecular evidence in the trials. The value of the art objects seized by the federal authorities totals $1,- 000,000' and it was reported . today that other; seizures would follow which would augment this sum to a total of staggering size. May Ransack Homes. Washington, Oct. 1-1 -it is believ ed here, tuat. there is a great prob ability that the "'homes of many rich New Yorkers and those of others, who made purchases of rare art treasures from the Duveen brothers of New York, who were raided by federal customs officers yesterday, will be ransacked by custom agents for the purpose of recovering goods Illegally brought into this country from abroad. By a construction of the law, according to C. P. Montgom ery, thief custom officer of the treas ury department, the United States s authority to seize all goods brought to this country on which cus toms duties have not been fully paid, whether they are in the hands of dealers or private persons. When asked if it was the inten tion of the department to institute such a seizure, Mr. Montgomery re plied that the matter Is entirely in the hands of Collector Loeb, of the New York port. Assistant Chief Customs Officer Koehler today said lie believes the raid on the Duveen Brothers' estab lishment was brought about by some dissatisfied employe who had '"peach ed." He said that the goods in ques tion had evident been under-valuod by the Duveen Brothers in their de claration to the customs officials, and that if tjiey had been brought into the port under the new tariff regula tions they would probably have been admitted free of duty. :-':' Complications May Arise. New York. Oct. 14 International complications are likely to result from the arrest of Benjamin and Henry J. Duveen, the biggest art dealers and importers in America, it was declared today by counsel for the two nien. Both are British subjects and the intimation was made that an appeal may be made to their government to demand a thorough investigation of the sensational raid on the firm's es tablishment In this city. . T.ie Du veens are charged with under-valua- tions amounting to more than $1, 000,000.1 . "All of the members of the' Da veen family are British subjects, Hen ry Duveen, the head of the firm, be ing a brother of the late Sir Joseph Duveen, and an uncle of the four younger men who comprise the rest of the firm. The fact of thetr cm zenBhip may surprise some of the raiders for the British government has a habit of looking after the rights of its subjects in other countries There will be many surprises, I prom ise you. . ' ' "The seizure of the books, safes arfe of the store Itself and the sen sational arrest of Benjamin Duveen and the night raid on the Ltisltanla were all no ultimately, so 111-advlscd and so unfair as to simply bo outrag '.- (, Continued on Page Six.) ROOSEVELTJN WRECK But Little Damage Done to Train However Knsjine lTicaks llcwn Hut Tram is Itroitglit to n Slop Without Mis Imp to Open cv Virk Cam- ( Ry Lc.ni'c-1 Wire to T.ic Timos. ) -Cleveland, ()., Oct. 11 While spending reventv miles an 1: ::t r one of the olivines r'rnwim;' the special train carrying '1 neodore Rodhcvl-L and !u.i i.urtv bi'o'c noun eariy toaay at liolmesville, O. The train was hro'ight' in a Flop without acculenl, bat ..fifty-live'. mi null's'" were nv aired to reiair the brol-eu part, and though the utmost was done to nia.ic up the lost time the effort lailc.l and the train arrived here exactly fillv iive 'minutes la-te. Ji'Kt lielorc ex-I'ievident R'losevelt arrived here lie sotindel tne war cr of the campaign in Now orU ."tale while he was whirling acros nortli- n Onlo on the way to .Dunkirk,. N. , to open I no campaign lor Heni-j L. Stinitoi). remiblicaii candidiuc rjr governor. I'm going to put ginger in thai New York campaign, he declared. Marin I'ia, (Jiifen llowagei of Lisbon to protect Anicricnn interests ; roval fainilv to iimke her escape Irani raped in an automobile to .Malta, where to Kriceira, where they embayed on royal yacht mis weeping and said that the (low nlall ol .the I'oitu lluonce of the Queen Mother Aiiu'lie, his sister-m-law. "We're going to let the people know there's an election coining." It was evident that today would be one of the most active of the New York, state campaign. Colonel Roosevelt, was up till near. midnight last night working on tne opening speech at Dunkirk. While the ex-president would give out. noth ing in advance upon his speech, if became known that he is going to make a ringing exploitation ot what he regards as the Issues of the cam paign. Mr. Itooscvelt is to go through the state crying out against the bosb in politics and the coalition in. wnn h he maintains exists between me crooked boss" and Wall street. He will Inveigh against, the Woodrutt Barnes clique and tell his crowds ho he drove thein to Lie wall in the Saratoga convention. Exactly how the Colonel expects to get around the tariff endorsement in the platform which his convention put through was something toda (Continued On Page Five.) CHARLTON WILL GO . BACK 10 ITALY ' (By Leased Wire to The Tunes.) Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 14 Judge John A. Blair In the court ot common pleas, today decided that l'ortei B. Charlton should be turned over to the l'iilted States government by. tl.le Ktute of New Jersey for extradition to Iitalv, there to stand trial for the murder 'of his wife, who was thrust alive into a trunk thut bus thrown Into Lake Como. The decision was a severe blow at every contention made by young Charleton's lawyers, who contended that under existing laws In Italy then client could not be legally sent back to that country to stand trial. Judge Blair holds that he can be legally sent back for trial. , Charlton sut In court while the d' cislon was being given, but paid ab solutely no attention to it. W hijt Judge Blair was reading it the, youth busied himself, with reading Ins mall Judge Blair,.-In-Riving his decision, quoted the precedent . from the case of Mason versus Mahon and from the revved Btatutes, No. 5270 of the. penal h f Tk "'Y I'oiluual, the l iiiled Stales cruiser l)e';ii!oiiies, vluch has been ordered to lid the Duke of Op irlo. I lie Quci'ii l islion, when Hie uprisiu'.v ol the ren she was later escorted under una:1 the yacht Amelic. The Duke ol Opoito, wl lie lie was einharkiiis in Hie il jiiona code: of. Hie state of "New .Jersey, lie said that that ja-.Lve him "tin-". authority to Mt as a" committing, magistrate. ' "Acting .within, -tin- rules .thus laid down." said Jm'ge Klair. in his deci sion, "the. court finds that there is such evidence of criminality presented to It, as according to the law -governing this matter, justilies the holding f the ac cused and the motion to discharge. oil the ground of insufficiency of evidence Is, therefore; denied. .."The motion to discharge is. urged on the fin ther ground that the extra dition treaty between the -government of the i'liilid Stiites and Italy, if ever applicable, to this cy.-'e. Is not so. -now by. force of the diplomatic correspond ence of (lie secretaries of the state- of the respective governments presented to the court and hy a legislative aefof the Italian government, known as tin code penal, passed subsequently i.o the making of the treaty 't hat 'No Italian citizen shall '-'he extradited. ' ... .."Considering the grave character of the charge and the international im portance of tiie iiucstiohs. involved the court is noi willing to upon that gmund in this preliminary, irniiiiry. : notwith standing the utile and ingenious argu ments of counsel to declare void a solemn -treaty between , the interested nations. The.'. motion to. discluirge . is refused. ' . ; AKDMOIt INDIl Tl;l. l-'ormer state Senator ( barged With Offering Itrilie of ijtt.UOO. (Ilv Leased Wile to I ne Times.) New York,, i e-r.. H - t'-.e 'iv-r State Senator Frank J. iardner. of hrook lvn was Indicted as a briber tins al ternoon bv the New urk county giaml jury The ludielment was returned after e-Senator Foelker, whose one vote defeated the aiiti-raee track gambling -bills, had testified before Hie grand nirv. detective was sent at once whole C.ardner is held in bonds as n fugitive from Justice. He is alleged to have offered Foelkei against the bills. i.otio to ole SKVKKAIj PKKSOXM DKAH. rractically Whole Family Die From Leaking tins. (Bv Leased Wire to The limes) New York, Oct. 14 Practically an entire fainilv was wiped out uy gas early todav in Brooklyn. Adolpli Knn, his Ron George, and daughter Clara were found dead in their norm:. Mrs. Knn and n Ron. William, were found dvlng and rushed to the. Ger man hospital, where no hope is held .j-. ' ' '-' - f" '-;' ' '- ', .... - llowager was "i' ol mo lirsi oi me iilihcnn party commenced. She es- (I. with Hie rest ol Hie royal laniuy riliv wns due wliolly lo the talai m- out tor their recovery. The tragedy was caused by a leaking gas tube. I'-ront tin- position or tiie body of Clara it. is believed that, she was wakened In- the smell of gas and in a state of sub-consciousness Wandered through the rooms to waken her par ents and brothers. Koaclung the room occupied by her father and brother she fell, uncons cious and died. Six Killed In reek. ( IJv Leased Wire to i no limes.) . Fort -Wayne, Intl., Oct. 11 Six men were killed and several injured when n freight train on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Itailroad crashed into a work train at I'ortlaiid, Ind., today. Crown Prince 111. .-Belgrade. Kervin, Oct. 14 Crown Prince Alexander of Servui, is cnti callv III' of tvphoitl lever. hpecial ists were -summoned troin Vienna to day. LOST IN NORTH SEA (liy Cable to The l imes.) Hartlepool. Eng.. Oct. 14 -The steam ship Cranford has been lost m tile North Sea with a heavy loss or lite. Twentv-Hvo bodies were washed ashore this morning wearing life belts marked Cranford. It is feared that all on i board perished. There are believed to have been !;'! persons on the vessel. I The washing ashore ot a score of drowned seamen . was the first Summa tion of the disaster. The most of the j men wore lite belts marked with the name of the Cranford which convinced I coast' guards that the steamer . had foundered in a Rale at sea. Soon nrier five more- bodies were i washed ashore. As the bodies were those ot the crew. it is believed that the seamen took possession ot the liteuouts when the vessel was doomed. The lifeboats had either been swamped either hv too heavy loading nr else bv the high sea which was running. ..... - - ' Heats were put out bearing life Ravers in hope of picking up survivors from the Cranford and - wireless messages ii'i-ro sent out for all coast vessels to watch for the survivors. Tiie Cranforcl was a Ht-el built ves-ss.-l ennstructerl liv tile (iiav Ship Oiiildiiisf ( ompanv ol tills place, in 1S88 ui. she was a fii-tvw ri(?(-'el sliiJ and iiimii-rnly eiiuipiu-il. The (Jianford hail ed from -London and was owned by Hie marine linn of Pyman Brothers, she lias been in tne trade continuously for ic score of years and plied in At tic waters. .'-,.. ;.I.K OX KXt.LISII COAST, 'hinv Vessels Lost mid Death Itoll III Kea.ii 200. (Hv Cable to The Times) London, Oct. 1-1- Dispatches re ceived from various points along the English' and Scottish coast, show that a tprritiv1 gale is battering strips. It is behoved that many vessels have been lost and that t;io Crantord was ope ol these. There is a possibility tliat the death roll will reach over ".00, The, heaviest loss of life suf fered in anv storni in a decade. Kishing boats have been swept upon the coast and even the large liners ph ing the North bea have had great difficulty in reaching their var ious ports. " XKUItO O.V lUMI'AOK. South Carolina Xcuro (ets on a Tare Hecause He is Not Invited to a Dance. (Bv Leased Wire to 1 he Times) Coliimbun, )-, Oct. 14 in a rim ing pistol battle between Policeman James. Croedon. and Zettv, and Oeo. Dnuglas- a South Carolina negro, the policemen ' captured the latter after wounding him. The fight occurred at an earlv hour this morning in the. darkness. Douglass had shot ..up the home' of I-iessie ltedman, killing his sweetheart. Mamie Hell. '2(1, and in luring Mrs. Redman and Simpson (Siillowav. Douglass was jealous because he was not invited to a dance which was being held. SHOOTS HIMSKLI'. t niveisilv student lornels I hat His I'istol is Loaded. ( Special to The I nnof. ) Chupel Hill. X. C. Oct. 14 While olavinu with a nistol in. his room at Mrs Anna AhenatiiVs Thursday morning. Hun Fearrington, a student, shot himself, ill the left leg, nillicting a rather painful wound. lie had liid the eun aside, forgetting that one ot" the chambers was loaded Pii'kinar' mi the weapon, he .began snappiim it. when it suddenly fired The-ball entered the large muscle nhnvp the knee. Dr. Abernathy had Fearrington carried to tne inhrinary llodv Washed Ashore. (Bv Leased W ire to Hie Times) Chicago, Oct. 14 The body of Walter TL Coles, president of the TCeef-Coles .Printing' Company, who nivsteriouslv disapiieared from his of fice last Friday, was washed ashore from Lake Michigan early today Whether Coles was the victim of i f-rmie and his nonv inrowu iuio me lake, or the victim of an accident or of suicide is a mystery which the police are Irving, to unravel, family believe he was murdered His Forty-two Hurt In Wreck. (f!v Leased Wire to 1 tie Times.) Fort Smith, Ark., Oct. 1 1 Details received todav show that torty-two persons wore hurt, when Frisco train No .', known as the - cannon ball which left St. Louis at :Jf o clock Wednesday, morning tor dalvesion Texas, was wrecked yesterday alter noon on Winding tstair Mountain three miles north ot Taliluna, Okla. on a bridge seventy-five teet long supported bv steel girders. .Storm W arninjt. (ltv Leased Wire to rl ne 'I tines.) Washington. Oct. H- 1 lie lollow ing storm warning was sent out by the Weather Bureau today: "Tropical storms centered near the exereme west end of Cuba of considt erahle intensity are apparently mov ing northeastward. Will cause dan gerous gales next twenty-tour uours along the coast ol southern and cen tral Florida and southeast gulf ol Mexico. Hurricane warnings order ed from Dunelon to Jupiter. Storm In the (inlf. (Bv- Leased Wire to The Times.) New Orleans, La., Oct. 14 A tcr riflle storni is sweeping the gulf coast. This is the same hurricane which swept four provinces in Cuba yester dav, causing excessive damage. Gulf shipping has been ordered into ports, but it is feared that many vessels are in the path of the storm. A man who comes home to dinner on time every night may not be a good hiiBband, but his wife is sure he CLAIM OF LEADERS III PARIS SUE iovernment Says the Strike Is Broken Bat Is Massing Troops Ollieials Declare That the IJnckbono ISnilmad Strike Has Been or flu Jlrokiu Anurciiists Furnish a etv Menace (ioveriinieiit, How eier, is Doubtful ol ils Own Claims That Strike is IJroken Military Ounid Around the Jtestdence of President Fulliervs- Doubled Strike Leaders I'iriii. (liv Cable to The Times.) ii-ls ('let. K. Folio ving official leelaration that the backbone oi me railroad sti-ilic had been broken ana that the men would be at work on ull lines within- 4S hours the government found a new menace toilny and Im mediately directed a drastic crusade linst anarchists. J his action tol- lowcd a bonili outrage, the perpetra. tors or which escaped, j reiei-i t,uinnr leelared his belief that the exploders of the infernal machine would uti ui custody before the day was over, how ever. As far as known the labor leaders ill not countenance the use of dyna mte and it is believed that they have . i. ! .. ..u no itart m anv anaicni&uc jum,.. That the government is dotHMXul of ts own claim that the strike is prae- fic'-illv '-ifoken -wast made- apparent :oy the continued massing of troops at trategic noints. The nil tin lion showed Improvement todav- except upon the soutnern rail way where the strike was scheduled to begin at onee. 1 he eouieueiauun f union trades announced this morn- nig that it would can out an invent or the building trades ot me municipal subway, the tramways ana the omnibus system without ueiaj. Complete-' compliance with his order they declared would tie. up the whole city. Despite the most earnest endeavors of the police they were unable to get a trace of the author of the Kue De Herrv outrage. stern precautions were taken not only in this city but throughout France- A dragnet was set for the captur of the anarchists una radicals who took advantage ot the present labor taek Th: tidal was fixed situation to cloak their real at against law and order. military- guard around the of-. residence of President Kalliorea doubled "today. Soldiers with bayonets marched up and dow n in front of the i'lvsee and persons ot suspicious appearance were not allowed to linger in the street. Secret police agents of tiie government mingled with the known lenders : of. the anarchistic . propaganda to learn their plans. Meas ures were taken at the ports of en try to guard against the influx of an archists from the did countries; During the anti-anarchist, crusade Premier Briand Is being closely guard ed He. is credited with the several inroads made in the strikers cuuse. It was claimed tins morning that befoie tomorrow the strike movement would totter perilously. -near H conajise. ir n did not collapse altogether. On the other hand the strike lcad (Continued on Page Four) DALAI LAMA AGENT SEIZED BY CHINESE (Bv Cable to The Times) Calcutta, Oct. 14 China lun crushed out the last vestige of the government of the once powerful Dalai Lama at Lhassa, according to advices received here from Thibet to day. Chinese soldiers seized the agent of the Dalai Lama and spirited him awav to a secret hiding place, upon a warrant licensing him ol con spiring to send supplies to the Lama at Darjlling. An order of decapita tion followed the arrest of the agent, but-this was later cancolled for fear it would result In an outbreak, t ' The agent is an Abbot, 70 years of age and he hud acted as the secular minister for Lama, who lived In the strictest seclusion. . The arrest was the final step in the movement of the Chinese government to wrest the tre mendous powers from the . Laifa'a government in Thibet. V .. . A small oyster doesn't cut much ol a figure In a big stew. , . i ), ' '
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