Smuggling
Police seize a large cache of smuggled glassware and arrest two sailors from a transatlantic steamer.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readNEW YORK, July 17.
Ninety dozen smuggled glasses were captured by the police last night, and two sailors of the steamer Caledonia were arrested as smugglers.
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