The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-06
ARE THEY sCAPEGOATS?

Another Phase of the Robbery-Who
Committed the Deed.
BROOKLYN. May 6, 1S93.-Jean Bloch.
salesman for Parisian drygoods house.
threw some light on the history of the
alleged Williamsburg diamond robbers
this morning. If the story he tells be
rue, and in most particulars it was SUBJ
;antiated Lv Albert Adler sand his wife,
the keepers sf the Hotel Transatlantique,
where the suspected persons stayed. then
the two men and the young woman, now
in williamsburg, are merely ScapegoatS,
the victims of clever plot which was
intended to cover the retreat OF the real
culprits.
ed mysteriously several days ago, are the
ones who committed the robbery, Bloch
go They both come from Havre. The
man they robbed was the woman's hus-
band, wealthy retail jeweller. Flam-
ment was the head bookkeeper In the
establishment. He ordered the jewels IN
The name of the firm, secreted them, and
then when they had boarded up suffi-
cient amount TO pay them for their
trouble, ne eloped with his employers
wife.
A sKILFUL SCHEME.
The name OF the Jeweler, Bloch says he
does not know. he also says that the
not gone abroad is that the bookkeeper
had arranged matters so skilfully. that
| some time would elapse before the jewell
ler would discover that he had lost large
amount of jewels as we'll as his wife.
He would not know anything about 1t
until the bills for the jewels began 10
come in from the wholesale houses. The
lkFIamments arrived here on the Paris Gu
April Is. Eugene Leroux and his wife.
who are now under arrest, arrived here
| April 2, on the New York. 1t was on
| board the New York that Bloch made
their acquaintance.
Bloch is ready to swear that at that
| time Leroux and his companion had no
parcels with them. They were second
class passengers, and Bloch during the
course OF the voyage became very friend
lily. Leroux told him that he had been q
waiter in Paris restaurant, and during
| the Paris Exposition had managed to
| save q, 900 francs.
| He was coming to this country with a
girl whom be had betrayed and whom.
| upon his arrival here, he intended to
| marry In ftilfl1ment of his promise
l Leronx was married to the girl last Mon
day as the City Hall.
Atthis point Adler corroborated Bloch's
story TO the extent of saying that he had
| introduced tho Esapiments to Leroux at
dinner one night because they were Iel-
low countrymeu.
FLAAIMENT'S QUEER ACTS.
Bloch declares that the Flamments
were on tentef hooks the whole time,
| fearing that the jeweler would come in
pursuit of them by the next steamship
At length they offered to sell the jewels
| to Leroux for part of his $4,000 francs.
| Solomon. the runner at the Transatlan-
| tique, said TO-DAY that when the Leroux
| moved to Williamsburg on Monday last.
they carried with them, besides their own
| baggage, four large valises aud \ trunk
| which had been brought to the hotel by
| the Flamments. 1t was in this trunk.
| and these valises that the jewels were
| subsequently found.
| Bloch told this story to the Adlers this
| morning in the strictest confidence.
| Before he had got half way through 1t
| Mrs. Adler, who was also talking with
| some reporters at the desk, said "Prenez
| garde."
The reporters turned to Bloch and
| asked him to go on with his story. Tbs
little Frenchman almost had cat ft.
He fumed and stamped and jumped mp
| and down In his rage.
Bloch was then on bis way to La
Bretagne. on which he was to sail at II