New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-28
THE AFRICAN DIAMOND uiNEH'
From The Rocky Mountain News.

From The Rocky Mountain News.
ncstnt time said A. Hale the colorado pros
Pecor rIhe fac! South the A haFe h% la been
%ai:ed in by hsh stone Wi and ana mo no
body allowed to pass in or opt nne ,Ss ne @, II San
10 OOo negroes who secured for per.9is OF SIN
months a, a time to work in the mines ne n nesto
dav INV come from the interior OF the country.
800 perhaps 1000 mics away ana are sin 81 ,n
slant death II they refuse The AGENT OF ,me u "a
mond syndicate pays The chef b oeri nine aud the
poor, ignorant negroes have no ~ Wv" a,
a galiey-slayc until his six months nave EXPIRED:
one tribe marches home across the deserts N poiy:
IT is seldom tina, back IS seen a second time III Ito
mines. ,s.r,. ra,sor an far a.
the Individual Is concerned, why he never reIu.is:
enough to buy several wives II ne is careful OF MS
earnings he has enough hard cash 20 buy four wives,
and that is the summit of his ambition ANY nero
ov,n,ng four wives is .xemp. from labor for the re:
mainder OF his days He is known as gentleman,
his wives do all the work FOR him ana ne poses as
!'r6ts is 81 course strong Indictment for bllek
man 10 20 10 the mines but the chances are That ne
viii die from exposure or az mo piu Ia. as ni
mero,,s as one might suppose Very Hide is known
Of what is going in the interior Of ne ,naniond
stranger caught lettering about in the neighoor :.
no Is liable . he sent 10 ape lV"h .ot ' liz
fifteen years on the charge OF buying stolen u's-
monds' l., , ,,,,,.
Mr. Hale said that the trade IN stolen h'i'pnps
became 50 heavy a few years ago that the owners
of the mines organized to drive the traders out OF
the country The devices for concea1ng ana carty-
ing the diamonds out OF the mines were remarkaps
for their ingenuity and their success. the law os
the Dutch republic required that any man chsrged
with diamond theft purchasing stoien gems shouo
ha We the privilege OF trial by jury. As the major
lty Of the jurors generally engaged In the same
shady transaction. the convictions were very lew
and far tween, and the country swarned WIN
dIi mond BUYERS Fortunes made on the outsi.c
were larger than those made on me INSIDE.
The mine-owners bought up the legislators ana q
law was passed requiring all diamond cases 70 ps
power TO send the guilty men TO the oreakwater AZ
Cape Town for a long period OF yea's 49,, -.
The law has worked like charm. The judges are
said 10 be absolutely unapproachab,e from the stand
point of the diamond buyer. and long procession
Of disappointed spectators has been marched or to
me south 50 that there are now not less than 1000
convcis from the diamond region piling up stones
10 hold back the ocean al Cape Town. MT H2le
saws IL Is the most disheartenei body or men nc
EYER saw many Of them being possessors OF large
fortunes TIE edict has gone out against the ga.
rond- buyer and he practically not in the field
this year in South Africa. -.
OF course the European syndicate Is correspond
lngy happy and the Diamond Trust regulates the
output az its will Merchants and dealers al hinl-
berry are the verge OF bankruptcy, as tney arc
under the eyes Of the paid detectives every hour
and their books are regularly inspected by officials
IF the European mine-owners The cory OF him.
berly has departed AMI the money which once went
into the capacious pockets 81 the merchants now
goes - enrich the Sldel palaces of the European
capitals. From quiet investigations which Mr. HAZE
made in South Africa he Is or the opinion tn.t
BODY could wear sparkers II the mines were opened
D their full capacity.