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This subject very vividly illustrates what vigilance is observed by the government to eliminate the nefarious practice of smuggling. Scurrying toward the frontier is a rough and hardened looking character with a large bag on his back. We follow him as he scampers through the woods, crossing a stream back and forth. He has been observed, and the officers are hot on his trail. The methods resorted to elude the officers show that the man is an old offender, and despite his many artful ruses the officers, who are equal to the occasion, are seen to gain at every stage. Reaching a cliff barely across the frontier we see the man cast his burden over, and attaching a rope to a projection he is sliding down the mountain side just as the officers appear. Taking out a knife the latter cut the rope, and the man rolls down and lands in a heap just a few feet from his accomplices, who are anxiously awaiting his arrival and who have already taken charge of the bag of smuggled goods. The result is disastrous to the perpetrator, and it is again evident that "the way of the transgressor is hard."
Written by Gaumont catalogue
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