Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Ingenious Smuggling in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious Smuggling in Russia.

One of the most ingenious devices for smuggling was detected in RuMia net long ago. A great number of false bank notes had teen put into circulation within the dominions of the C ar. They could onlv have been imported, and although the strictest search was made habitually over every vessel intaring a Russian port, no trace of the smuggling of false notes was discovered. Accident, however, at lest brought the mystery to light. It happienea that several cases of lead pencils arrived one day from England, and while being examined one of them fell out from a package and the cust m ho ise officer, picking it up. cut it to a point and med it to sign the order which delivered up the pencil t to the consignee. lie kept the loose pencil f< r his own use and a few days afterward. because it needed a new point, he cut it again and found that there was no more lead He cut still further and was surprise d to find a thin roll of paper nested in the hollow place where the lead was supposed to be, The paper was one of lhe false notes and in this way they had been smuggled into the country.—St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat