The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-21
TIFFANY'S ROBBED OF GEMS.
THREE DIAMONDS WORTH $4,000,
VANISH MISTERIOUS SLY. 80
We're In Cutters Hands. Then DlsappeA
Authentic statement Tint They Arc
Not Three OF the Ten Gems Into which
the Great Excelsior Diamond was Cut.

Authentic statement Tint They Arc
, Not Three OF the Ten Gems Into which
the Great Excelsior Diamond Was Cut.
! Three partly cut diamonds valued at
s5oooo disappeared on May 4 from tho
workshop of Tiffany & Co.. in Union Square.
One of the three diamonds il valued at
soa,CCo. The two others are together worth
that amount The police are working on
the robbery When the loss first became
known it was reported that the stones
were three OF ten cut from the famous
! Excelsior diamond bu. this was autnen-
| ticaliy denied last night.
The three diinonli that ara mi, ,ly
should have been put I'M safe over night,
but according to oil accounts they nJ,ar
reached it. A trusted employees was worilng
on rho stones on the fifth floor Of the Tifsny
Building on the AFTERNOON they disappeared.
On this floor there is an immense safe
sure undcd Ivy wire screen The man
aSer Of this depart ment keeps Inside One
at!ecn and put al. the da lcnls ,ay
when the worimen Ia .'e fiji mel the d =
WORK n them.
,rhH man who w. vorkinZ on the ca
monds says h wrapped them up in ia n
at tbs end CT b. day ana put them on lac
shelf of tha window in the wire s:ro:n.
They disappeared from the shalt Tia
manager Of tic department did no: $40
than. and il was he who dis ,overed tnat
they were missing when the safe was open d
tn, neXt morning and the diamond cutter
called for them
Search was Immediately instituted for
the gems, but TO trace Of them could be
found The loss created sensation anon z
the 1'irany employees. They were ell
warned not to talk about it, and then tho
polio, were notified,
Acting Inspector OBrien has had men
working on the robbery since il was re-
ported to him. He has sent descriptions
of the three stones broadcast, but didn't
state from where they were missing. De-
scriptions OF the stones have been sent
abroad, for the police fear that the person
who took them won t even attempt to pawn
them in this country.
No particular one of the employees Is
suspected. although they all feel uncom-
Portable at the loss, particularly the men
at work on the fifth floor the day the dia-
monds disappeared. There were about
fifty men at work on this floor that day.
They have all had to submit to the clossst
questioning None Of them could give
the police any information. - -
The police are inclined to think that tho
workman who says he put the diamonds
on the shelf is telling the truth. He IL an
old and trusted employee. On the other
hand, there is little doubt that the person
who did take the diamonds was an employee.
He may have hal an accomplice on the
outside and dropped the paper in which
the diamonds were kept through a window.
Apparently there is nothing to show that
any unauthorized person was in the work.
shop.
If diamonds from the Excelsior stone hac
been stolen the loss would be much greater.
Tiffany Co bought this famous stone last
cut out OF it ten diamonds, f"e OF which
have been sold to New Workers.
Tiffany 4 Co. still have the other A..
The Excelsior was found in Jagersfontei1,
South Africa and weighed Oh carts. 1t is
said to he the largest diamond that has ever
been GU. up. No one has ever known
what the Excelsior diamond cost Tiffany
& Co., but its estimated cost was between
81 900 OCO and So OGOO
Not only has Acting Inspector O'Brien
all his best men working on the robbery,
but the Pinkcrtons have been called in.
President Charles T. Cook of Tiffany Il
Co. told the detectives not to spare OK
pense in recovering the stones and running
down the thief or thieves
Whoever took the diamonds had plenty
of time to hide them, for they were no.
missed for twelve hours alter they vera
stolen When the diamonds were not pu.
back in the safe that night one of the rules
of the house was violated.
Every piece Of jewelry, as well as every
stone, is supposed TO be put in the safe over
night. but it is admitted that this rule hes
often been violated. Never before has
anything of any value been stolen from this
where the employees are only
the most trusted men,
VRECKED IN AFRO COLLISIONS.