Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-01-25
SCOTLAND YARDS RELICS.
Gruesoms Memsntoes and Ingenious
Criminal Devices
Gruesorns


Trafalgar Square Riots
The detective struck match so that
we could see our way down a narrow
passage and a crooked fight OF steps,
says a writer In the New York Sun.
The steps leo into small whitewash-
ed cellar, with wooden floor and a
skylight set in one corner OF the cell
ing. The detective lit a gas jet and
said, with wave of the hand: This
is what we call the black museum.
These are the relics OF all the princi-
pal crimes that have made any talk in
London for over fifty years 1t was
much like the back room of junk
shop, and all that resembled museum
was the counter, which stretched
around its four walls and held the
relics, labelled with a scrap of writing
or a clipping from some old news
paper
Here is neutrality-suspicious., " he con-
tinued. 'lt's the smartest Yankee
trick 4 ever saw. 1t belonged to
gentleman gambler, an American. who
had fine house in St Johns Wood.
where he used to entice younger sons
and boys with big incomes TO win
their money at cards. This was
leather sleeve to fit over the forearm.
To 1t was attached a piece of steel
mechanism. There is a cleft in the
end, and any card the player may think
he will want later can be stuck in it.
BY raising the arm the spring is re-
leased. the exsension flies back. still
holding the card and keeps it hidden
until IL is wanted.
There was a handsomely lined veil
vet box bound with brass, evidently a
jewel box. and inside OF it were three
Jumps of common coal. THAT ought
to have story" suggested. at
was like this" said my guide. "A
gentleman went into a Regent street
jewelers. one day and asked them to
send around selection of diamonds
in different makes TO his hotel He
said he was in great hurry to 60 to
Paris, and would examine them while
packing up. The firm sent around
one OF their most trusty servants with
the box and the gentleman selected
about $4,000 worth of diamonds in
rings and bracelets. There was a SER
want Ia the room who was very impru-
dent aud with whom the gentleman
was apparently becoming more and
more angry. He finally put the jewels
he wanted back in the box and sealed
II up with red tape and sealing wax.
This servant was AN accomplice and
had previously ascerta;ued the make
and shape Of boxes used by the Re-
gent street firm. As soon as the box
was sealed he prepared another one
just like it from the stock he had laid
in beforehand and set it ia readiness
outside the door, Then he entered the
room and said something so unpardon-
ably insulting that his ostensible mas
ter made a dash at him with the box
OF diamonds under his arm and follow
ed the servant TO the door aud Just out
side of it He changed the boxes and
returned with the decoy, apologized
for the scene that had just occurred
and gave the clerk check and the
box, telling him to place the latter in
a safe until the check was cashed,
when he was to send it TO Lady Mabel
Dudley, who was staying with some
friends in Devonshire. The decoy
box, sealed and fashioned like the real
one, was put in the firms safe. and the
check sent to the bank. When it was
returned dishonored the box was open
ed and found to contain these three
Jumps of coal, not the sort of dia-
monds the firm dealt in.
This he continued, sis the pistol
with which O'Conner attempted the
life of the queen and this is the petit
ton he sent her. This is photograph
OF LEROY, who murdered gentleman
in an underground railway carriage.
and this is knife used by woman at |
BroclSley to chop off two children's
heads"
The room is full OF such relics, burg
lars tools OF wonderful ingenuity, |
bludgeons with leaden balls for heads,
strange looking poniards and daggers
taken from Afghan and Malay sailors.
who have committed murder with them,
and a dainty silver box half filled with
perfumed cigarettes, found beside the
body of beautiful woman murdered
in her bed in q little high walled house
in the doubtful ueighborhood of St.
Johns Wood. Her photograph stands
beside it, all that is left of her and her
bad life and its bad ending. And there
are the ropes and cap that hung Hulme.
a plaster cast OF the face OF the public
who met at las; the horrible
death he had so often given to Others;
The hammer with which the Rev. James
Watson did his poor wife TO death. and
old garments rent with knives and
covered with blood stains.
In the back of the room hangs our
ain which hides something the casual