The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-29
swINDLERs

neatly Trap hhroWd Now York JoWelar
by Pretending 10 lie Connected with
the 'Four Hundred"
New YORK. Oct 19-For stealing dia-
monds valued at $40, OO0 Senior Jose
Gomez, Brazilian, and his wife, Min
ME Gomez, who claims lSinship with the
well-known Stuyvesant family of this
city, were arraigned in the Tombs po-
lice court Tuesday, and held in 81, 900
bonds for hearing Wednesday after
noon. They were unable to obtain bail,
and were locked up in the tombs.
The victim of the robbery was Adela
Kaufman, who is a diamond broker,
at No. 25 John street Seven thousand
dollars worth of diamonds had been
located in the various pawn shops.
When Broker Kaufman reported at
headquarters that he had been swindled
out of $4,000 worth of diamonds, De-
tective Sergeants Heidelberg and
Jacobs, two of the cleverest detectives
on the force, were assigned to the case.
They found in the prisoners possession
Monday night fifty-one pawn tickets
for diamonds and jewels and the face
value of the tickets was SO. 100. They
showed also that the prisoners had re.
ceived from $50 to 1925 on different
pieces of jewelry. When asked what
had become of the missing $1,000 worth
of jewels Mrs. Gomez refused to tell,
but said if she was given time she could
produce them. Diamond Broker Kauff-
man is sharp man, but he was more
than matched by the Brazilians. Seven
months ago he said Mrs. Gomez was in
troduced to him by another jeweler,
whose name he could not recollect, as u
wealthy and highly respectable lady
and a relative OF the Stuyvesant family
of this city. Mrs. Gomez subsequently,
introduced her husband, who she said,
was Spanish nobleman.
They began their acquaintance with
the broker with purchase of, S7O0
worth of diamond jewelry. Subsequent
ly Mrs. Gomez selected about 81, 100
worth of brilliants, and requested that
they be sent up to her residence, where,
at her leisure, she could make new
selection, as she desired to make some
presents. She remarked quite inno-
Gently that one of his friends who
was to profit by the generosity
was Mrs. Frederick X Coudert, whose
husband, she explained, was her attor-
ney in some will proceedings she being
heiress in large estate in South Amer
lea. The Couderts, it may be remarked,
are away up to the head in the McAllister
400 list. Mrs. Gomez kept S400 worth
of the jewels when they arrived at
her house and paid cash for them.
Broker Kaufman has great head.
After Mrs. Gomez had parted he
pondered on what she had said about
her intimacy with the Couderts and
he devised a scheme. Mrs. Gomez
would be n treasure to him through
her standing with the 400" so, with
great politeness, attended with great
dif1idence he gently insinuated to the
lady that she might make considerable
pin money, and even snug little
fortune, by utilizing her large acquain-
tance with the four hundred and
act as his agent in disposing
of his diamonds. Mrs. Gomez hesi-
tated, and said that she would not
for the world do anything that
might compromise her position and aris-
tocratic blood, but finally assented with
great reluctance to undertake the work
with a commission of 6 per cent. For
a while things went smoothly Mrs.
Gomez got large quantities of the pre-
cious gems and occasionally reported a
sale, but always obtained an additional
lot of brilliants on each of these occa-
sions until at last she had S10 900 in her
possession.