The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
REMARKABLE ROBBERY
Tks Interesting Story Of a $4,000 Diamond
Necklace
How Clever Trick was Played by which
the Jewels were Removed and Paste
Substituted-The Wives of Two
Prominent Wall street
Men Suspected.
New York worid.I

The following advertisement appeared in
the columns of The World in a recent issue:
Q0RO REWARD Will be paid for the recovery
pNJO OF n small brooch composed OF q cats
eye surrounded by sixteen diamonds set OF a bar
OF gold; the attention OF pawnbrokers and loan
men Is requested Tiffany d CO., Union Square.
A group of gentlemen were seated in the
Mansion House one evening last week, dis
cussing various topics when one Of the party
remarked that his wifes sister had been rob-
bed of a very valuable diamond ring. and
that she had been unable to obtain clue to
the thief. A gentleman well known IN
Brooklyn then narrated the following:
81 was standing in the store of one OF New
Works largest Jewelry houses one day and
had been examining pair of diamond ear
rings, which intended purchasing for my
indened wife, when a most distinguished
looking lady entered and said: want to
look at that necklace again, and want you to
send it to my house tonight, so that my
husband can see 1t and purchase it for me-
The necklace in question was taken from the
big safe, where the finest jewelry were kept,
and shown to the lady, who said that her
husband must buy it for her. After she
had gone the clerk asked if knew who that
lady was. | answered that did not. He
said: That is Mrs. A. T., wife of one of
Wall streets luckiest spectators. Her hus-
band is worth over Sl5,0OO,0O0 at the least es-
innate.
II left the store undecided about my in
tended purchase, but went back three DAYS
afterwards and made my selection. While
waiting for my change, the same clerk asked
me If | remembered the lady who wanted the
diamond necklace sent to her home for her
husbands approval on the day l had first
looked at the earrings just purchased. / told
him | recoilected the lady perfectly. We
have most mysterious robbery on hand,
and who the robber is, or where or when it
occurred, we do not know; but no pains or
expense is being spared to find out. The
lady's husband refused to purchase the neck
lace on account of its high price, which was
$4,000 On the day following the necklace
was handed to me by the lady's husband.
The diamond expert and myself examined
the neck il, e, aud decided that it was Just as
it had left the store. That afternoon Mrs. c.
D., residing Oh l;~ookiyn Heights, and whose
husband is the ,i,r partner of one of the
largest exporting houses in New York,
came in and wanted to look at our best dia-
monds.
"Among other gems brought out the $50
600 necklace, and when she saw it she went
into raptures over it, and told me to have it
sent home by o'clock, so that she could
secure her usband's approval. This ladys
husband vsS then and is to-day worth over
100000 20 the necklace was taken to his
residence, cceipt given by the lady herself,
and the l., klace left. About $50 the next
morning came the lady and her husband,
the latter j. nding me the necklace, saying
he could afford to pay such price, but
would buy lis wife something else, limit
ing her to 1000 After several purchases
had been made they left, and L again called
the expert who examined the stones care
n ltx-a
morning Is another one OF the diamond buy
ers was passing through the store, he stopped
at my counter and asked me ii | had sold
Mrs. A. Il. the necklace? told him that l
had not. and then explained how Mr.. and
Mrs. c. ID. had returned the necklace the day
before. Let's see the thing said he. It's
possible that the price is too high, and it
might be more easily sold by making two
necklaces out of the one unlocked the
safe and handed him the necklace. He looked
at ii and decided that it would not be best
to alter it, and was handing 1t back to me,
when he storped and looked at it again.
Then he took it over nearer the light and
after moment saw his face turn pale. He
called to me and | FASTENED to where he
stood, when he simply held out the necklace,
saying: Those are not diamOnds-ths y're
paste
This disclosure brought the other expert,
who at once pronounced the stones imita-
tions, but added: The change has been
made since last night, for when sO-and-so
and myself examined the necklace genuine
diamonds were where Partisan paste now
is"
''To make a long story short, detectives
were put on the track of both ,aGies and
their husbands, and the clerk and expert,
but every effort at discovery failed. The
ladies never wore diamonds which in the
slightest degree resembled those originally
in the necklace. Goods of value are not left
over night any longer by the employees of
that house. The strangest feature of the
robbery is that the false stones are the coun-
terpart of the genuine ones, and the reset
ting, which must have been done very rap
idly, showed no alteration marks. Detectives
at that time pronounced it as being one of
the cleverest robberies ever committed"