The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-23
GEORGE A. PUGHE In LUCK.
HE PICKED UP DIAMONDS WORTH
$1,000 IN FIFIH AVENUE

They Were Lost By Lady on Her Way 20
Reception At ID. oEds. Mm.'s-Ths
Finder sold Some, Believing Them Paste.
A glitterinR object lying In the gutter at
Fifth avenue and Sixty ninth street attracted
the attention OF George A. Pughe as he was
passing the spot on the morning OF Jan. TO-
He picked II up. and found that II was part Of
an ornament set with what looked like dia-
monds. Then he picked up two more similar
objects. both much smaller than the first
Fitted together the three formed a star-llke
design PuRhe. who IL an ronworker. and
lives at 316 West Eighteenth street. where
diamonds are not common. doesn't know
much about precious stones, and was In
clined to believe that II was merely an
initiation diamond pendant. By way OF find
ing out, he took one Of the smaller pieces to
Jacob Lubiner. who keeps what the police
designate as fence" on Seventh avenue.
between Thirty-second and Thlrty-third
streets. Lublner examined the piece and said:
This is brass set with paste diamonds; six
OF 'om. I'll give you dollar for IL"
Make 1t ten cents extra for car fare and you
can have It," said PuRhe.
Lubiner consented. after little grumbling.
and the bargain was concluded. Later on
Pughe pawned tho second small fragment.
also containing six OF the paste" diamonds.
at Keeper Bros pawn shop. Seventh avenue.
between Thirty-fourth and thirty fifth streets.
The larger fragment. set with fourteen stones.
he kept, and two days latyr no was very glad
he had done so. for his attention was called to
an advertisement Offering $500 reward for a
diamond tassel lost on Fifth avenue. between
Tenth and Sixty ninth streets. on the night Of
Jan. q.
With the remaining and largest fragment OF
his flnd Pughe won't to Tiffany & Co.. by whom
the advertisement was inserted. There he
saw Ralph NJ Hyde. who took the Jewels
told him that the paste" ornament was
worth $1,000, and paid him 5000 OF the re-
ward. When the ironworker had recovered
his breath he told Mr.. Hyde about the other
brothers and on Lubiner for the goods was
given by Justice Ryan. Keeper Brothers at
once gave cup up their he Diamonds put when pTChe;
Lubiner's shop they found difficulties, Lubi-
We'll, what now Have you got more Of
that PASTE I think paid you more than the
The detective came forward and explained to
Lubiner that the diamonds had been lost and
aSg o spsak ESr H ana
with many gestures and in a foreign tongue,
mi, mixed with broken Engish phrases; Indicated
in vain to get him Man to tel where the Jewels
was arraigned In Jefferson Market Court yes
terday on q charge Of receiving stolen goods.
made by Mr.. Hyde, representing Tiffany 4 Co.
Lubiner pretended not to understand English,
but Capt. Schmittberger OF tho West Thirtieth
street station told Justice Ryan the prisoner
was fraud and understood English we'll
=, This man has been in trouble before" said
whore he was wealthy jeweller in st. Peters,
$1,000, all he had been able to keep. lie
started a. shop on the Bowery and lost his
$1,000 Then he moved up town. got in with
crooks and started in at his present business. |
Both no and his son have been arrested on
suspicion OF keeping n fence. Four months
ago there was robbery in West Forty-nfth
found on his wife at their home. 300 Henry
to prosecute"
Lubiner was held In 81. 900 bail for examIna-
ton on the charge Of receiving stolen goods |
Mr Hyde would not say to whom tho jewelry
il was lost" said he. on the evening of
band were on their way to reception at tn.
house OF ID. Ogden Mills 1t IL supposed that |
1t must have dropped out OF their carriage |
window. The owner wishes her name to be |
kept out OF the papers. and therefore neither |
she nor her husband will appear In tho case at |
all. 1t Is very fortunate that the tassel was |
not broken worse and that none OF the dia- |
monds were lost from their settings We |
hone to recover the piece that Lubner has"
Pughe, who Is oyerjoyed at HIS good luck in |
getting $500, will get the other 500 when the |
missing part OF the ornament Is recovered. |
lie says that next time he will know diamonds |
from paste when he sees them.