The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
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Man and Woman Prosper by
PaWning Diamonds Here.
NOrten, GOOdland and MankatO
Merchants Her Victims.
LAWRENCE is EXCITED
JeWeler Tells Sheriff $50 Gem
Is Easily Worth $4OO.
No Law to Stop Operations Of
Diamond Merchant.
LAWRENCE is EXCITED

Kansas City, July 24.=The sheriff CT
Lawrence called the police department
Of Kansas City and said
Il believe there's a woman up here
in Lawrence who is trying to peddle
the diamonds stolen in the robbery in
Kansas City the other day"
The sheriff said a woman had gone
into a jewelry store there and had Of
fered to sell s40O diamond brooch
for $165. He said she had left on the
$40 o'clock train for Kansas City.
Chief Griffin sent two detectives 20
the Union depot to meet the train and
when the woman got off she and her
husband, who met her, were taken to
the office of the chief of police.
They had not heard that there had
been diamond robbery in Kansas
City. but they were loaded with dia-
monds. The man. who said he was
Isaac Coldblatt of Chicago, had a
leather belt around his waist which
had several hundred diamonds in it.
In his hip pocket he had a leather case
with a thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds in it and in one of his coat
pockets was a bag full of diamonds, all
of them mounted.
His wife had at least $1,000 worth
of diamonds in her black leather hand
bag. They told the chief the follow
4lB GAtId SUI
Nine Diamonds, $65.
In Chicago they have a jewelry fac
tory. They import 100000 worth of
diamonds a year and they are mount
ed in earrings, brooches, rings and
bracelets. The brooches are all alike
Every one is set with nine diamonds
and costs $65. They start out from
Chicago with hundreds of the brooches
and other articles. He takes one route
and sells to the trade. She takes an
other route. She goes to a town and
into a pawnShOp or a JeWelry store
and laws upon the counter a card with
the name Miss Lilly Finney." printed
on it. and the additional information
that she represents a manufacturer OF
pens in Ohio She LAYS down one of
the brooches and says:
IT am stranded here. I must have
S165 to pay my bills and get back
home. want to borrow it en- thar.
brooch"
She Did Well in Kansas.
If the jeweier lends her that amount
she is lust 500 ahead. If he refuses
to lend that much she takes pair of
earrings from her ears and lays them
beside the brooch If he still refuses,
she slips a diamond ring from her
finger and puts it alongside the brooch
and earrings, and if he is still stub
born she adds to it a bracelet set with
two diamonds from her wrist. II the
ieweler lends her $165 on the whole
bunch of jewels she is $25 ahead.
She told Chief Griffin that last week
she borrowed $165 on one of the
brooches in Goodiand, Kansas In
Norton. Kansas. she did the same IN
Mankato she got $165 for a brooch, a
pair of earrings and a bracelet. In
Concordia she borrowed $l65 on
brooch alone. and in Lawrence whom
she offered to pawn one of the brace
let's to a jeweler for $165 he refused
and after She had gone he sent for the
sheriff and told him the brooch was
easily worth $400.
The pair have been travelling over
the country several years doing that
work. They were in Kansas City
eight weeks last winter and pawned
upwards of fifty of the brooches in and
near here Joseph Morino. pawn
broker, has the reputation of being inc
hest Judge of diamond values in Kan
sas City but Mrs. Goldblatt said last