Evening journal., 1911-06-29
DIAMOND THIEVES
HAVE RETIRED
Get $4,000 in Gems and Will
Live Off Proceeds, They
Write

Diamond thieves, one Of whom re-
Gently secured stone valued at about
$500 at the Tenth street store Of Mil
lard f. Davis, ieweler. have quit the
business. having made about 10000
while they were in the game for two
months. They worked the same
scheme on a New York jeweler that
they used here and this business man
was the last to be done" by the
clever thieves. At least they say so
in letter sent to the jewelers. Cir
cular Weekly. The communication
was mailed in Chattanooga. Tenn. It
follows:
First Of all as a weekly subscriber
TO your valuable paper we wish to
thank you kindly for the press no
tices you have given us, also for maxi
ing us the topic Of an editorial in
your latest issue.
In your next issue you can notify
all your subscribers that we have
/ decided to quit the brotherhood of
pennyweighters and hereby resign. or
course you know of us without any
further introduction. as you have fill
ed up many columns OF your paper
lauding our work.
We wish TO thank those who con-
tributed to our fund and we were
kindly treated everywhere. with the
possible exception OF that small burg
called New Brunswick, N. J.
Our only regret was that we we're
sorry TO find so many daylight rob
bers among the trade and we had
10 work fast to swindle them before
they succeeded I'm swindline us.
We wish TO congratulate you upon
being the advertising and news me
dium Of such an enterprising band of
up-to-date bandits as the retail Jew
elers. and as an instance Of their
keensighted thievery. we call your at
tention TO the fact that our famous
watch which you say we always
wished fixed right away" has never
been out Of repair since we stole It.
but nevertheless every store we Wis
tied. and we visited 1873 OF them, has
succeeded in finding something the
matter with this watch Of ours and
found some excuse TO charge us any
where from 25 cents to $3.50. which
they never collected. for doing every
thing from opening the cover to wind
ing IT up for us.
Another instance Of legal robbery
as practiced by your subscribers we
relate Of how one jeweler after tell
ing us that white sapphires we're
worth S1l a carat and agreeing tol
let us have three carat for $50, he
thought we were nearsighted and
stepped TO the rear OF his store tol
al,
phires from S1.50 a carat TO S1l a
carat (for our benehD we Just
reached over and transplanted some
OF his real -carats from another tray
to our pockets, leaving behind FIVE
beautiful s4 rings. We cost him $500
| for trying 10 sell $3.50 stones for
$40.
We thought we had met an honest
| jeweler down here. but he also tried
TO vaccinate our watch fright away"
We are willing to give credit where
credit Is due, and you may believe us
when We say that your paper caused
us TO quit, as we saw things getting
warmer each week as your issue
came out describing our work.
You can tell your retail robbers
that they can thank your paper for
our resigning from this exalted work
AS we have made $4,000 during the
last two months. we are going into
| business. We will call our cafe the
"In aud Out" cafe, as an appropriate
name. Drop around some dark night
and see us. Call upon Mr.. Koontz, the
jeweler on One Hundred and Twenty
fifth street, New York City. and ask
him n he has decided to become
subscriber to your paper. When he
informed us over the phone that he
did not subscribe we stepped in and
paid him a visit which set him back
$500 This came off the day after the
Battle of New Brunswick Run"
Yours in rings,
The Bear" Headed Pennyweighter
and His Pal,
Mutt and Jeff