The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1911-11-03
DIAMOND THIEVES
Women Are Experts In Purloining
the Precious Stones.
SOME TRICKS OF THE TRADE.
Clever Scheme of q Light Fingered
Lady Who Worked Nearly Every
Dealer In New York - Ingenious
Trick of a Smooth Berlin Swindler.

Clever Scheme of Light Fingered
Lady Who Worked Nearly Every
Dealer In New York - Ingenious
Trick of Smooth Berlin Swindler
A former State street jeweler who
is now a member of jewelers. pro
tective association and travels over
the entire world in search Of dia-
mond and gem thieves told some of
the interesting methods used by the
expert thief to steal jewelry, says the
Chicago News.
"Women make good diamond
thieves" he said, "as dealers must
not take chance of offending a Gus
toner, lest she be a rich mans wife
or daughter whose trade If obtained
regularly would amount to thousands
a year. Any woman well dressed and
possessing certain amount of re-
nnement can see the entire stock of
almost any dealer in the country.
When she Ia clever enough she can
get stone or piece of jewelry during
her inspection.
zone New York woman came into
large store and asked to see some
unset diamonds. The proprietor OF
the store waited on her and showed
her a large collection of fine stones.
She displayed monster roll of bills
and was about to purchase an expen'
sive Jewel when she asked whether
her husband could see 1t. Why, GER
tainly,' replied the proprietor We
Will send 1t over to him now The
woman hesltated and finally asked
whether they would hold the stone un-
til that afternoon and she would make
a deposit Of $40 on 1t.
"This appeared perfectly proper to
the owner, but when she left two val
liable stones were missing. The wo-
man was hailed, taken to the police
headquarters and searched. The gems
were not found on her, and In her in
dlgnatlon she threatened to bring suit
against the proprietor. He had been
sure she had taken the stones, but In
his profuslon of apology offered to give
her the one she had been looking at
and at the same time refund her $40.
This was better than n suit and the
loss of all the supposed friends of the
woman, thought the dealer. She ac-
companied him back to the store and
while there. watched by detectives
made her way up to the case where
she had stood before and. slipping hei
hand along the under edge, recovered
the two missing stones, stuck there
In little ball of chewing gum.
1.-THE detectives did not know posi-
lively at that time whether she had
taken anything from the counter, but
decided TO keep further watch over
her. At another store several days
later, while she was inspecting gems,
stone was dropped on the floor 'ac,
cidentally,' and this also was lost
Gum on the front of the shoe had
got this one. The woman was nr.
rested and confessed that she had
swindled nearly every dealer in New
York with her gum trick
zone of the most ingenious theft
was made In Berlin. where fellow
walked into general jewelry store
knowing the owner had n fine dia
mond The thief wore an expensiv,
diamond himself and went into tn
store apparently to have an old Ger
man watch repaired. He started L
talk of diamonds and exhibited hl
own us choice stone. He was show
the other stone by the dealer. The!
discussed diamonds In every phas,
until the watch was repaired, whei
the stranger started to pay for The
repairing. He exhibited n large rol
of bills and purposely oyerpaid. Dur
ing the slight confusion of counting
his money and paying for his watcl
he had substituted for the genuine dia
mond paste stone, which was being
carefully wrapped up and placed II
its box by the dealer, while thu
stranger was sauntering out with hii
watch.
1.-THE dealer saw slight carbon
spot in the paste Jewel as he wa
closing the box and. knowing hi
own Jewel to be nawless. hurled.
examined the stone and apprehende'
the thief before he was half n blocl
away, secure in the thought that h
was safe,
"IIe was taken to the store an,
every particle or clothing removed
and he was searched thoroughly, bu
the missing jewel could not be found
More through curiosity at the oil
time watch than anything else on
of the police opened the back Of tn
case and found gllttering up at hin
from the handspring the lost jewe
The thief confessed and got heav
sentence
There are just thousands of thi
kind OF cases" said the gem THE
sleuth The majority Of the reall.
big fellows that have ever seen ar
Ms fine cut men as one would find any
where Their personality is usually o
The best, but with bad streak fl
heir makeup somewhere"