New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-06
DIAMOND DEALERS QUARREL
EXCESSIVE RIVALRY LEADS TO BLOWS.
SUITS AND coUNTERsUITs CAUSED BY "DRuM
MER's, CHANGING EMPLOYERS.

surrs AND CouNTERsUITs CAUSED BY "DRUM
MER's. CHANGING EMPLOYERS.
Competition among the diamond merchants and
Jewellers of Maiden Lane ana NaSsaus'' Is Keen anu
a frst-class drummer" can Always comma'u
position and good salary. lsadorc Guntzoerger'
,rho q now emp,oved By Max Fruend & Co., of No.
6 Na,de, lane was formerly employed by MaS
rayar ~ M IS Nassau-st.. ard the Two were thcn
the best Of FRIENDS Now they are engaged In open
warfare In the courts. and arc SUING cach o'her "r
assault defamation Of character and other causes
About N. first Of last March, Guntzberger went TO
Cincinnati 10 sell diamonds for Lazar lie showed
,,,,e, ~ them to Mr. oskamp. Of oskamp & Mouitng,
,ho found that one Of the stones was not clean
ue had previously written to Mr. Lazar asking for
norfcct Goods to be sent and he did not buy when
t;uptzberccr returned 10 NcwYork rs reported to
that one of the diamonds was imperfect and de-
clarcd they were Just he bad received them, ard
a.. matter was supposed to have ended. Shortly
af,.rward the festive drummer went to sell diar
,nonds for his present employers MI. Guntzbcrger
naturally enough went among his old customers and
INTRODUCED the goods Of his new employer, and this.
q X alleged Is the real cause of the trouble. Soon
sfcrward stories began 20 float aound the Jewellers
beadouarers that reflected Guntzbergcrs integrity
and he at once concluded that Lazar was the author
The other day Guntzbergcr heard the story in
direct form and he became exceedingly angry. With
a threatening demcanOr and temper very hot, he
went to Lazars Office. The result was that tho two
men came to blows, and the fight ended by the arrest
of Cunt zberger who admitted to bail TO await the
action of the Grand Jury. The day he in
st1scted his counsel begin action for false i'm
prisonment and defamation of character. laying
the damages at $4,000. At the same time Lazars law
yer began civil action against Guntzberger
for assault and battery. claiming $1,000 damages
In his affidavit Lszar says that he gave Gun'z-
bcrrer some parcels Of diamonds to show TO Mr. Os-
kamp and that when Guntzbcrger returned one Of
them was not perfect As Guntzberger declared that
he had received them In that condition nothing more
was thought of the matter until Mr. Oskamp called
ON him Mr. Oskamp, so Mr.. Lazar declares, said :
How did you make out on those diamonds that
were changed on YOU ~ Mr. Lazar says he was much
surprised at this and that when Guntzberger came
10 his Office he told him about 1t. Guntzberger called
him liar and struck him.
The affidavit Of Mr. oskamp states that the
diamonds shown to him by Cunzberger were not what
he ordered. That one Of them was imperfect, ana
that when he called Guntzbcrgcr's attention to that
fact he said that some dealer had changed the stone
on him. The stones weighed $40 carat moro than
the paper called for GunzberGer declined to give
him the name of the dealer whom he claimed had
changed the stones
Mr. Guntzborger denies those statements and says
that the stones were received by him from drum
uers who was taken sick while the road. and that
he was ordered 10 receive them. he dlo NOT ne de-
cIares in his AFFIDAVIT received them from Mr. LaZai lie
also declared that he weighed the stones In the pres
encc of Mr. OSkamD and that they were the weight
called for.