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Last May the S. S. Excella entered New York harbor from Marseilles with her manifest showing, among other things, 54 casks of "flower pots." At the pier a man presented the original bills of lading for the shipment. A customs clerk picked out Casks No. 4, 30 and 53 for sample inspection. They were opened and, sure enough, they did contain flower pots. A crockery duty of $107.70 was assessed and paid on the whole consignment and away went the other 51 casks, first to a warehouse, then by truck out over Long Island roads to "The Braes," where they...
Soon U. S. Prohibition agents appeared at ''The Braes," explained to Mr. Pratt that they had no warrant to search his home. They expressed a belief that Mr. Pratt's casks had contained not flower pots but 240 cases of French champagne. Mr. Pratt not only confirmed their belief but obligingly arranged to have the shipment trucked back to Brooklyn, where it was destroyed...
...member of one of France's oldest noble families who owns the Pommery & Greno caves at Rheims. (The Count, already indicted for smuggling with Go-Bart Co. is now in France under $25,000 bond [TIME, June 17].) By collusion with a customs clerk and three casks containing flower pots, the liquor shipment was put through the U. S. customs. When caught, Mr. Pratt was neither arrested by the agents nor required by Customs to pay the customary fine of $5 per bottle-a total of $14,400 in this case-for each bottle of smuggled liquor...
...midst of a moving discourse by the President of the Megntzu Agricultural Society, bandit-soldiers rushed into the banquet hall. Roughly they herded the befuddled flower of Megntzu together, bundled them off to the railroad station, piled them aboard a train which chuffed off 200 miles inland to the end of the line. Cold sober now, the District Magistrate, the Garrison Commander, the Wireless Director and all their friends were forced to tramp over hard frozen roads to a cave high in the mountains. For their release the wily bandit of Megntzu demanded not one but four camel-loads...
...presented very effectively as far as the mechanics were concerned. The noises of a spring shower and the attending roar of the street were as convincing as could be expected when they could be heard above the shoutings of Miss Inescort vociferously acting the part of Eliza, the "good" flower girl. The other members of the cast presented themselves in a more or less clamorous fashion...