The evening world., 1913-11-13
MYSTERY WOMAN"
GONE WITH JEWELS
WORTH$15O,0OO
Was Trusted to Sell "On Mem.
Orandllm" to Fashionable
People.

A Jewel swindle amounting to more
than 3l5O.o00. one Of the most extsn.
sive ever practised upon Maiden Lane
diamond jewellers. 10 believed to have
been unearthed to-day when Detec-
tiv Lieutenant Summers and Detective
Coz discovered a number OF rings and
two pins. aggrexating In value more
than $4,000. In several uptown pawn.
shops.
Antoinetts Bonner. . woman OF
mystery" to the Maiden Lane jewellers.
is the person to whom Louis II. Mos
OF No. 10 Cedar street. attorney for
the jewellers. ascribes the brains d.
recting the swindle. while J. b. Kis-
iinger, who was In bankruptcy In 1914.
10 believed TO be her chief assistant.
A. no was associated In business with
the woman.
The rings and pins found In the pawn
shops were handed over TO Antoinette
Bonner ION memorandum for sale to
fashionable persons ON Fifth avenue and
Riverside Drive. More than ten dia.
mond dealers In the financial district are
known to have granted her unlimited
| credit, and OF this credit she took full
advantage.
HAD ENrREE TO SEVERAL FASH.
ioNAeLE HOUSES.
Beginning business ''on a shoestr,ng.' -
as Attorney Moss described II. she OBJ
tained the confidence OF jewellers by
nrst getting small gems, on which she
paid half their value, and by soon com.
pleting the full value. She would ther
increase the purchases and tell the dia.
mond dealers that she had left the Jew
eli. At various fashionable homes "or
approval"
Tho woman had entrance to many o.
the most fashionable homes In New
York and used this entree freely. Sh'
frequently used the names Of he
wealthy patrons and by this means sool
Increased her number Of clients. Within
n year after she began business she Wa
sell,ng diamonds worth more than $500.
600 = year. and this year. which WAS he
sccord, she has done q still better busi
ness. Her clientele grew 10 large tha
she took Kislinger as her associate an,
established expensive offices In the Mar
bridy. building. She lived with thre
sisters at No. q West One Hundred an
!, | Sixteenth street.
Miss Bonner. who Is described a
being about thirty years old and hand
, some. has not been seen for almost
|
because she always carried diamond
' worth from $4,000 TO S5o.ooo and thi
V stock would have been sufficient ft
thirty days.
: The arrest OF Francis r. Cocks,
g diamond broker Of No. 7 Maiden Ian
p a few days ago. hrst attracted attel
\ ton to the disappearance Of Miss Bol
u ner and kislingsr. Louis d. Folkar
u another broker. caused the arrest
i Cocks on a charge OF Withholding gen
d valued at $4,000. Cocks declared
could not return them because tho
I were being held by Miss Bonner.
% Louis II. Moos yesterday declared th
e his clients would contribute to a fur
70 to md Miss Bonner. and he to-day d
n clared that the matter had been put
II tine hands of the police, In a WRIT,
'r statement issued last night he decla:y
et that the matter had been taken up wi
n tie District-Attornsy's once"
'e Among the Arms involved In {
transactions are: T.. d. Washburn
At CO., No. I Maiden Lane: NJ. A. Sawy
lie 4 Co., same address; ID. C. Townsend
r Co, No 40 Broadway; Norbert Sail
ne No. Il Nassau street; Charles L, Sea
'.- Inc, No, $50 Broadway, W. l. COLL
AZ No. u Maiden Lane, Oppenhcimsr
strauss No. II Maiden Lane: Wllliam IN
Durfee No. Maiden Lane. and Willii
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