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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a steamer — examination of Passengers — a Lady's Petticoat Quilted with Sewing Silk. (search)
r four hours, and as each one was examined, she was consigned to the saloon further aft Contraband goods were found upon one of the females, who had on one of the most extraordinary garments ever gotten up by a dressmaker.--It was a well made quilted petticoat, and wadded or filled with skeins of silk, which weighed not less than thirty-five pounds, and supposed to be worth $200, as it is of the finest character Of course the garment was cut open and the silk abstracted. The woman is named Milburn, and was at once placed into custody. Her brother, a lad, was also searched, and he wore a very singularly made jacket. It was lined and stuffed throughout with neatly done up packages, all filled with a choice article of quinine, about three pounds in all. It usually sells for about $3 per ounce. Both have relations in St. Mary's county, where they are well known, and for some time have been stopping in the large boarding house adjoining the Hebrew Synagogue, on Hanover street The s