New-York tribune., 1885-07-24
GEMS THAT DISAPPEARED.
TRUSTING A DIAMOND PEDLER TOO FAR
MRS. JAcoUIN's OPERATIONS WITH JEWELLERS AND
PAwN-BROKE4s.

MRS. JACoUlN's OPERATIONS WITH JEWELLERS AND
PAwN-BRoKEas.
The well-to-do people who live in Fifth-ave. and
other fashionable streets 9e ana can had tSer bs
invaded for the last TWO year>hy diamond pea-
Ter. The pedler was ssoTt o.. ana mr. fnPIy pnuns
IacouIn. and was always neatly dressed m
black. She had Mother Mandlebaum nose, ana
two bright dark eyes. half concealed by the
wrinkles of her checks and brows, looked search
insiv at her customers and about their homes. In
her hand she carried satchel which was usually
well filed with valuable gems 'ias ia,,o,anl mao
been the got pe,shborScoa S%p'""ap Maiden Lane
and sbe b did So thriving trade that dealers soon
gave her their confidence and woud iius, ngr WIN
.sted Of herself and two sons. Alfred, who was
eighteen years old. and CASTOR. twelve
ESS6 had %dud the have prUd%Inshnt dsIshted nfss fSS
6rst Napoleon. and the speculation loving eyes
which might have won the affections OF Ferdinand
Ward Mrs. Joaquin said that she was WIDOW
and came from France near the Swiss frontier.
Her business became so prosperous that about six
months ago she hired the third floor Of the house
No. 2S " 1s her wealthy rst
and the Jewellers with whom she dealt Then al
modest sign was put on the daor-post bearing the
clrvv The SON. was Alfred. and, having
been introduced to the jewellers, he acted generally
thereafter as purchasing agent Tor tho hrin Inc
back rooms fitted up as living rooms, ana the
front room was plainly furnished with brussels
carpet sofa, two easy chairs, and two shew cases
Later large safe was put ln Business continued
good until the hegira to the watering places aud
Europe began when it fell off somewhat. but the
firm continued 10 take large c0nslgnments OF dla
monds and watches the son telling the dealers that
his mother was about going TO saratoga
or to Long Branch, and would be able
to make big sales The dealers congratulated
themselves that during the duh season they would
thus be enabled to dispose of enough OF their goods
10 weld thera profit and suspicion was aroused
until one day last week when a jeweller. having
call for certain kind of stones, which he mad let
the firm have. went to their rooms for them. Mrs.
,Jacquin was 50 polite and smiling, as she assured
him that the stones were at the house oi wealthy
resident of Fiith-ave that ne was not altogether
satisfied and insisted that she should get them.
She went ont and after protracted absence re-
turned with the diamonds. The ieweller
pocketed them and went away In the the
drm and wanted to know why the diamonds had
not been returned to him.. Mrs Joaquin had
pawned them for 5000 some days before ana had
induced the pawnbrokcr 10 let her take them 10
her rooms for an hour on the plea That she could
make large sale. She promised TO iix the matter
up the next day and did SO by Substituting other
On Monday last Mrs. Joaquin called at several of
the stores downtown to herself report upon the
diamonds and watches which she had. and III some
stores she selected additional goods. taking them
away with her. But the suspicious OF the
jeveler who took away his diamonds nad
was urged by several dealers to return tho goods
belonging TO them. On Tuesday several OF them
went the room of the firm aud found that IL had
dissolved and disappeared. An ps, entrance rance was
no diamonds watches in IL. AS substitute Tor
them Mrs Joaquin had left several bundles OF paw
tickets. on each of which was the name OF the
owner of the jcwelry pawned. The amount
realized in cash was about Sio,ooo.
Among the pawnbrokers represented by the
tickets were X. simpson j. Co: OF No lVo B0wery,
and Henry McAeenan, OF No. 1874 Eighth-ave
Mr. Simpson said that as near n he could guess
Mrs Jacquin had about 81 300 which she got
from him, and that she had redeemed > l,oOo worth
of diamonds from him last week. lie iui,hsr saln
and watches from the pawnbrokcrs, ior ne hau
been sued on several occasions for the recovery oil
goods pawned by persons wno had them on meiio-
randuln and he had always prevailed IN the sulis
IL is said that Mr.. McAleenan has made the heay-
est advances 10 Mrs Joaquin, the amount being
placed at from $4,000 to $1,000.
Mrs Joaquin is SAID To have lett tho city oi faris,
where she was known as Mrs Pauline Lew. about
two years ago. to escape prosecution for similar
swindlc By which, IN cOusion with her husband.
she managed to "do" the Partisan jewellers out oi
500 900 francs Her husband was caught aud con-
yicted aud Is now serving out his sentence IN some
French prison. Mrs Joaquin. or Levy. escaped
with her into Belgium, and thence came 10 the
United States.
Thirteen dealers. so far as now knows were her
victims in this city. and from thom she got goods
valued in the aggregate at 1000 Amsng ,heIn
st. st. r '" rDiS SISwer No. No. 80 Maiden Lane
each of whom lsses $4,000; V. L. u. Ciroen & Co,
No. u Jonu-st.. 1900; Ludeke q Co., No. - /
wick a Co. No. II Maiden Lane. $1,000 and
Franke y son, No. 81 John-st., $500 some OF tho \
lssers among whom Is C. y. Schumdnn. of No. ~
Jebn ST. refuse 10 state their losses The matter
ia, been kept very qIiiet by the sufferers. They
hold meeting yesterday aud made some agree
mcnt as TO the course to be pursued. but what II
was could not be asccrtained. Mrs. Lovy is sup
posed to have gone 10 Canada 10 secure immunity
from the law.