Thill

John Thill, claimant of one Cadillac town sedan automobile, engine number 1001858, model 370, Indiana license number 758-471, brings this appeal from the decree of forfeiture of said Cadillac automobile entered on the 25th day of January, 19321, by the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Washington. The government seeks forfeiture of the automobile under Rev. Stat. §§ 3061, 3062 (19 USCA §§ 482, 483), and sections 459, 460 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 USCA §§ 1459, 1460).

On August 23, 1931, John Thill, claimant, and Sue Thill, his wife, entered the United States from Canada at Blaine, Wash., in said automobile. They were stopped by the customs officials at the port of Blaine, Wash., and the usual examination was made. Mrs. Sue Thill was taken into the customs office and searched, and there were found concealed on her person three and one-half ounces of smoking opium, five eodinc tablets, one five-grain veronal tablet, two ounces of laudanum, one ounce of paregoric, and one vial of strychnine sulphate tablets. Claimant, on behalf of himself and his wife, declared certain merchandise in their possession, which declaration did not include the property…