Body-Belt Smuggling -- A customs official, holding two bars of gold found in the Saphir, demonstrates the body-belt. Names and addresses of men said to be ring-leaders of ***** gang of smugglers... to undermine Britain's financial stability" have been ***** by a sea captain who yesterday began an eighteen months' ***** for trying to smuggle diamonds, gold and money from *****. The captain, Maurice Herman Coppin, 39, ***** to walk from the quayside at Tilbury on to the bridge of his ship - the Belgian steamer Saphir - with a brief-case in his hand. There was gold in the Brief-case and more in a leather body-belt found in the ship. July 26, 1949. (Photo by Daily Mirror).