The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-06
TWO CLEVER THIEVES
Experts In Diamond Stealing Picked up
BY The Police.
George Brown and John Cindrath
Caught While RobbIng a ChIca-
go Jeweler-The Mystery
of "Pennyweighting."
one of the old.

the profession of crime until two eyideut
experts i'm that inc were turned up by the
Chicago police last week, Fifteen or
twenty years ago the ''pennyweighter'
was the bane of the jewelers. business
life. He Piled his dishonest legerdemain
under the noses of diamond merchants
in all the large cities OF this country and
Europe, and in comparative safety heaped
up n fortune in stolen Jewels. But this
modus operandi once discovered, through
the bungling of "a novice in the work,
ruined the Substitution" game by max
ing it so dangerous that the newest crook
took but few chances al working il. For
10 wears few s,oc;a lists .nna,r.I in IN.
nannywoi,h, 80, H., IT, ~ ~.
%soii;na snr d. ;a..o, - s.u .I"i. esI'
80 Is ~ 49,. "no iei 'neir VIC
tin Dut in~irequently cared To expose him.
sell TO ridicule by publishing the fact that
he had been swindled at SO old a game,
says the Chicago Herald.
Pennyweiphting is what thieves call
..smoo,b g,af, " ,noan;na ,barah,, ,ha, a,
~ = 49, 80, - aanG =,
/" ""A eas9 % ccoinpi'snihel' IL
uoes appear simple enough. The penny
~ selects his victim first OF all, and
by inspection of the latter's stock locates
in his covetous mind some particular gem
or gems that he desires 10 possess. He
,naLos fnII dosnr;n,;an 80 J. $500 -
,is;,;naa una;saI p'iN ~,
viSi'i'R iapiuars nasa pnohy Jewei OF
the same kind made to order. Then he
visits his victim, makes a small purchase.
and manages to secure an opportunity 10
inspect the particuIar Jewel he covers.
While exam;nipu il no dnftlv suhs,i,u,os
h;s .,,ri,,, ...,nn,, o.. -,
' a i" J.",i
anu leaves the store. vi course the tricR
is simple enough but its great danger
lie in the vigorous inspection the jeweler
makes of his stock after the departure of
his customer. In the large iewcIrv houses
the cI.rLs arc axnar,s anJ L.
ted hv nracfic, that ,hny Lnaa, So, w.,
II, y, .lanna Th NV e'rrs gem
Ca IA. All. 20 Lot, a,,, r,n,n,tp"na :.
n ,iancn' hut The .nnywoioh, ,hiat1n q.
ihsi lie other reoni. ",SSns iaa.air, LINZ LINZ
- 80, ;nfaii;hi. P''Pi'''"' jo"eiis eierh
Whan Ganrre NJ p.ou, and Io,, m
or "Henry' Gindrath ca,na ~ Chpinaon,
month no. dnnh,;nm H. ia, ,f;h;i;ss
H. Chieaao ;an'airs. - ,ha;n' vi
~, o y."snf enTrhh, 'nelr Juug,
,;r.ssaJ on,J IaoL;na ,a,n 49,, ".;,h
s',IanIIi ..niaLan 49, '" nm
p.au,' Maa,a ~ ious "a nHe
$50 - el'.sin
asn ond 49, n arnen.u. poarulng
,na,n - na. Nj meiS
s,,n,t. ap,, snnan - 49,.
49, 49, ~, ~ ,um n ir.iuen,,. uhey
spoke of profitable visits to Denver,
Omaha, Milwaukee, Kansas City, st.
Paul and other large Western towns.
They always went out together and were
inseparable companions. 1t was a great
shock to their friends at their boarding
house when two detectives called there
and without ceremony, ransacked the
apartments of the two young men and
ohaa, sina and ~
The two young men had been
systematically preyinp upon the big lew
elry houses of the city and neighboring
towns by the .'slbstititionr game. They
were equipped for extensive operations,
and, had their Judgment been as clever as
gathered i'm n fortune. Durinp their
career i'm Chicago. Giles Bros. Snnuldiny
q Co, Peacock, Chamber, LYMAN 4