The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-01-22
Robbery of the Duke of BrunsWick's
Jewels.
London Daily News Dec Is.


London Daily News Dec Is.
A robbery of diamonds to The value of
from S,000,000f TO 9 0O0000f (between
f300 900 10 fi00 000) was committed
on Tuesday night last. of the Dnke of
Rrnn>w wick. in Paris On The Ist of july
las,, the Dnke hired Young man named
Shaw, OF English descent, who speaks sew
eral languages, As second chamber vale'
lie appeared to be above his humble CON
dition. and in Short time he gained he
| confidence of his master bv his close a.
tenlian 10 his duties. The Duke possesses
collection Of diamonds said to be the
| richest in Europe. A portion of them are
deposited in An iron chest, placed in hi
bed chamber. and supplied with two doors,
one of which is opened by spring inge
niouSlv concealed in the wainsrost,ny and
the other bv key. Three or four per-
sons only, among whom were Shaw, were
acquainted with :his fact; but the kew
was never entrnste ed TO any of them On
Tues lav The Duke, on leaving home for
the afternoon. Informed Shaw tia, he ex
pected a jeweler to come the following
| morning to mount some of the diamonds
| in the iron chest and that in order not To
have ~ leave his bed IN the morning, he
! had left the secord door of the chest open
and he could open the other bv touching
| the spring. He further desired Shaw to
lie, the jeweler enter his bedroom without
delay. He then went ont, and did not
| return until between one and two in the
morning wis n he was surprised not TO find
Shaw at his post. The Duke. suppo>ing
that his valet was asleep, went up to his
bedroom and found tina, he was not there
! but he observed on tie bed numbe. OF
bags in which he kept his diamonds. -
| They had evidently been abstrarted from
the iron chest. ON farther exanInaiinn
he discovered number cf diamonds seat
tered about as if Gipy had been aban oned
in a momen, of fight These diamonds
were worth at Ieas' l coo 0O0Of The
Duke descended 20 his bedroom on the
first tloor and summoned bis SERVANTS
| The Duke asked them what had become
Of The latter telling them at the same time
| that his diamonds had been stolen They
! replied that Shaw had left ,te hoIel'at Ten
at night, aud had not returned The
onke next examined his iron chest, AMI
| as"ertained that diamonds TO The value of
| 5000 O0ef had been abStraclei. tooa' her
with 20 0OOf in gold pieces of l00f =
There WAS a nnrk-tbnok in the iron chest
con aiming bauk notes to the amount Of
! 100 0O0t, and various valuable securities
shici, 'he thief had ief.. i:G:.::.; :..;on Of
The robbery was Immediately given to the
prefecs Of police, and a telegram was re-
reived within few hours from Bouingue>
! stir-Mer. announcing the capture Of Shaw
and All the stolen property
Ninetv->ix pa, GELS OF Diamonds and 9TH
er precious stones were found in his pnck
cts, and a leather belt arounI his person.
together with a number of gold pieces of
| 1901. In reply to the questions addressed
20 him hv the law officer, Shaw said that
All the diamonds he had ab~,ra,tei were
there, and he was certain he had neither
lost nor given anv away, The JAwe'er
vaincc,. the diamonds at about 5000 000f
Several of them are of extraordinary
| beauty arA grea, vau-. one button heing
worth 450 06Of (f9o,00O). The gold
was also all found. with the exception of
4OOf, which the prisoner admitted he
had spent in Paris. Shaw was then !odg-
ed in the town prison, where he refused
to accept anv food until the chief of the
secret police arrived from Paris the fol-
lowing dav. He was then persuaded to
do so. being in very weak state The
prisoner. with all the valuahIes. arrived At
| Paris on Thursday. Shaw asserts that he
never before committed any crime, either
IN his own rnnntrv or elsewhere He
maintains that during The fur months he
passed il the service of the Dnke of Brnns-
wick he never thought of committing q
robb-r, until the idea WA, suddenly sny
ges,ed to him when The duke informed
him that he had left the door of iron chest
open.