Semi=weekly graphic., 1895-10-16
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SOME BEAUTIFUL DIAMONDS FOUND
 INA CUTTER IN THIS CITY.
Were They stolen By H. J. Gregory. The Little Rock PawnbrOker's
 Clerk.

broker Company, of Little Rock, has been found He was arrested in this city Friday night by Assist ant Chief of Police Thos. Green on a telegram from the Chief of Police of Little Rock, who requested that Gregory, who was believed to be in this city, be detained here if Hound until an officer could come for him, as his friends feared that he was suffering from an alteration of mind.
 It is very evident that Gregory is 8 criminal, and that his flight from Little Rock was premeditated, and that he fled with pocket full of spells.
 For years Gregory has been Secre- tary of the First National Pawn broker Company, of Little Rock, of which Frank O. Reed is President and principal owner. Owing to the many years service in his employ Mr. Reed had the ostexplicit con fidenee in Gregory, so much so that during the absence of the President Gregory had the entire management of the business.
 On Thursday Mr. Reed Jaturned from visit to Davenport, Iowa, in which city he owns . street railroad, and found that Gregory was miss ing, as well as about $400, which should have been ia the cash drawer of the pawn shop. He at once be- gan q search for the missing man and telegrams were sent to all points in the State requesting that he be arrested. It was one of these tele- grams that caused the arrest of Gregory in this city Friday night When arrested Gregory denied his identity, and said that his name was Davis. Notwithstanding this, how ever, the officer conducted him to the county jail, where he was locked up.
 ] On the way to the jail the officer with his prisoner came up Main street, and turned down Second avenue, with Gregory walking on the Side next to the street. A few minutes after the officer and Gregory passed the Board of Trade saloon a man who was sitting on the curbing dropped his plug of tobacco, and stopped in the dark to search for it. i In doing so his haud came in contact with a small tissue paper package. With curiosity, he picked it up and brought it to the light to see what it contained. The paper was torn I'open and the man was amazed to find the contents diamonds-gems of the first water-and worth a large sum of money. - He was an honest man, although poor in this worlds goods, at once placed them in safe keeping and Saturday placed advertisements in the papers an- nouncinq his find.
 Now, the question comes, whose diamonds are they? No one ih Pine Bluff has lost such jewels, and it is almost a certainty that the diamonds and jewels were thrown there by Gregory as he passed by under ar rest, and took this means to free himself from his ill-gotten gains, This, however, is only supposition, as telegram from the Chief of Police at Little Rock, who was 'noti- fled of the find, states that in the pawn shop are four large safes in which valuables are stored, and that only one of them could be opened be- cause Gregory had the combination to the remaining three, and until he arrived and unlocked them it could not be ascertained what was mis- sing
 Gregory, in charge of Officer Bolls- ford. left for Little Rock Saturday morning.
 Gregory is ali Englishman, and years ago was a street car driver when MT. Reed owned the Little Rock street railway.
 LATER.
 A telegram received by Chief Stewart from Little Rock, an- , rounces that Gregory has confessed, and states that he threw the dia- monds into the gutter in passing while in custody of the officer. The too,o,. <1e tt,o ,oupolc uy;ii oo,,,o ,31u,,,