Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-14
Adroit Crimes in Diamonds.

ltrOm the CnlcuSO 1flDuHe-J
 A notorious New York diamond thief who
 went to London and purchased in Hatton
 Garden 8 magnificent stone weighing about twelve and one-half carats, paid between seven and eight thousand dollars for it. He then made his way to Paris and put the stone in the hands of the best makers of
 paste goods and ordered thirty fac similes of it. He then had the whole of them mount ed in rings of exactly the same design. In London are many large pawnbrokers who lend sums of five thousand dollars and up- wards for short terms-fourteen days or SO at one-half or three-quarters per cent. He left the original ring with each of them in
 turn, took it out again and repledged it two
 or three times until they were well acquaint- ed with him and the gem. One Saturday, which is their busy day, he rushed round to the whole collection and left one of the lml- tations for sums ranging from four to six | thousand dollars. He placed twenty eight in all. They possibly did not examine them 1 closely, as he was so well known and his ap- pearance and manners were calculated to ward off suspicion. The shrewdest pawn | brokers in London were taken in by this l schooner The Attenboroughs (this family I have about eight establishments) have five of 1 these rings the Russells had three, and so forth.
 l A much cleverer, though not such an ex- 1 tensive scheme, was worked in Paris, in 1S7S | by notorious French ehevaher d industrie. 1 He had magnificent stone worth thirty l thousand francs, of which hs also had an 1 imitation made and set in the same manner l as the original. He then went to the most extensive retail jeweler there, and, handing 1 him the genuine gem in a ring, asked hlm
 how much he would charge to reset it in 8 | oIlfr cntt l stone could be used as 8 ring, scarfpln and 1 stud. The jeweler named an amount which 1 he said was much more than he wished to 1 spend, the stone was only an imitation and 1 not worth the outlay. The Jeweler was as- 1 tonished to hear that the fine stone he had in 1 his hand was an imitation, and, testing it 1 slightly, assured the owner that it was real diamond At this the sharper laughed and 1 stated that he had bought 1t in Baden Baden l from gambler out of luck for two hundred ] and fifty francs, and that the jeweler must
 be mistaken. He willingly left it until next l day for further testing. When he came the l following day the jeweler assured him that l it was s real diamond (as he well knew), and l to back his opinion offered to give him twen- l ty-two thousand five hundred francs for it. 1 The sharper still asserted that the jeweler l was mistaken, but agreed to sell it for that l price on condition that bs would not be held
 responsible if it was afterwards discovered 1 to be an imitation. This was agreed to and
 document was drawn up by which the jew
 eler agreed to give twenty-two thousand five hundred francs for the ring, and to hold the 1 vendor, who had bought it and still believed it an imitation, not responsible after the sale. l The transaction was concluded in the pres l ence of witnesses. Just before the money 1 was paid over and the ring delivered the
 sharper skilfully substituted the imitation
 and palmed the diamond. In few days af- | terward, when the fraud was discovered, al
 though the schooner was still on the spot, the 1 dupe had no remedy, as, in the document he 1 had signed, he had agreed to purchase the l stone whether imitation or not
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