The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-08
CHAPTER III.
FAN FABos TELLS HIS STORY.

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Fan FABos TELLS HIS STORY.
So might my ask begin.
l am to prove that there is a con.
spiracy of crime so we'll organized, sc
Widespread, so amazing in it's daring
that the police of all the civilized coun-
tries are at present unable either tc
imagine or to defeat it.
l cannot tell you when first it was
that some suspicion of the existence
of this great republic of thieves and
~assassins first came to me. Years age
| asked myself if it were not possible,
There has been no great jewel rob-
berry for a decade past which has not
found me more Jealous thar the po-
lice themselves in study of it's meth
DDS and judgment Of its men. / can
tell you the weight and size almost
OF every great jewel stolen, either in
Europe or America, during the past
i've years. I know the life history of
the men who are paying the penalty
for some of those crimes. I can tell
you whence they came and what was
their intention should they have car
rle1 their booty away. [ know the
houses in London n Paris and Wen
ma and Berlin where you may change
a stolen diamond for money as read
lily as men cash a banknote across a
counter. But there my knowledge has
begun n ended. I feel like a child
before a book whose print it cannot
read. There is a great world of crime
unexplored and its very cities are UNI
named How. then, should a man be-
GIN his studies? I answer that he can
not begin them unless his destiny opens
the book.
Let me set down my beliefs a little
palmer. If ever the story be read,
1t Will not be by those who have nv
grammar of crime at their call, or have
studied as I have studied the gospel
OF robbery as long years eXpound IL
1t would be die to maintain at great
length my belief that the leading Jewel
robberies OF the world are directed by
one brain n organized by one SUI
preme Intelligence. Let me be content
in this place to relate but a single
circumstance. 1t is that of the discov-
cry of a dead body just three wears
ago on the lonely seashore by the lit
tie fishing village of Failing in Nor
folk.
Now witness this occurrence. The
coast guard-for rarely does anv but
a coast guardsman tramp thai lonely
shore-a coast guard, patroling his
sandy beat at 6 o'clock of a spring
morning, comes suddenly upon the
body Of a ships officer, lying stark
upon the golden beach, cast there by
the hood tlde No name upon the pr
y CSN " GU IIiS VESSEL WINCH This
young man had served. He wore Jack
boots such as an officer of a merchant
man would wear; his clothes were of
navy serge.
Such q fatality naturally deserved no
more than q brief paragraph in any
daily paper. I should have heard moth
ing of it but for my friend M,1rray
of Scotland Yard, who telegraphed for
me upon the afternoon of the following
la and upon my arrival at his office
astonlshed me very much by first show
ing me an account of the circumstances
in the Eastern Daily Press and then
passing for my examination a roll of
cotton wool such as diamond brokers
carry.
4 want your opinion" he said with
U preface. do you know anything
OF the jewels in that parcel?s
There We're four stones lying a gilt
ter upon the WOOL. One of them a
great gem Of some 100 carats, rose coll
bred and altogether magnificent, I rec
ognized at a single glance.
That" said, sis the red diamond
OF Ford valley. Ask Baron Iouis de
Rothschild and he will tell you whose
property it was"
Would you be very surprised to
know that it was found upon the boav
of the young sailor?'
Murray" ! said. '.you have known
me too long to expect me to be SIR
-ipsr;;sea by angthing.n
But 1T is somewhat out of the way
isn't it? That's why I sent for von
The other stones don't appear to be
of the same class. But they're val
liable I should think
This pure white is a Brazilian J" sail
II 1T may be worth G1b0. The other
two are jewellers common STUFF Thev
would make pretty pair of earrings
for your daughter, Murray. You should
make the treasury an offer for them.
Say, so for the pair
The police haven't much monev 10
waste on the ladies' ears" he said
I rather hardly. We prefer EN- witho,It
ornament-they go closer to the doors r
thought o would like to hear about
THIS. we can't make much of 1t here.
n 4 don suppose you'll make more.
a snipss officer like that-you don't
expect him to be a fence in a COM
NOR way, n he's about the last you'd
! meme for g professional hand in Paris
for II this Is Baron Louis stone. as
you say, it must have been stolen in
Paris"
NO reason at all, Murray. His wife!
wore It in her tiara. She was al the
princes, 1 believe, no more than a
month ago. Does that occur to vol1?.
We haven't begun to think about it,,
q said, 4""how can we? No shin has
his loss. He carried a pipe.
q tobacco box, a gold watch and this.
Where's your clew start? Tell me that
n III g o it,
.Ihere are no papers, then?n
"None-that is, this paper. And IL
YOU can make head or all OF It. IN
give f100 to hospital,
He passed across the table a worn
1 and tattered letter case. 1t contained
z pam gold wedding ring and 4 slip
Captain Three Extraordinarily.
Where did he carry the Diamond n.
inside his waistcoat."
No arms upon him?a
Not 9 toothpick,"