Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
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els valued as a total at the astound-
| ing figure of 100000.
Having completed campaign of
amazing craftiness at once systematic
and progressive, and made possible
only by the business methods common
to tie jewelry trade, she had hidden
the Lane a final good-by.
/ There is always a degree of Won
| der when a woman engages eonserva-
tive vital factors in business on their
own ground and dupes them The
/ country marVeled at the daring OF
Cassie L. Chadwick who. without cap
ital or collateral, operated in millions
and ruuddled the pates of eminent
bank Presidents and made them mere
paying tellers fer her benefit. Nine
Humbert was another
But Anto!nette Bonner was differ.
ent. She never appeared to be thor
/ ouShly sophisticated or entirely Ger.
tain Q herself. She even sometimes
! apoioStzed for her lack of real ability
| ana promised on her own behalf that
she would strive to make herself more
truly representative of the great dia.
mond industry.
Most commendable on her part, was
the opinion.
Later on, as evidence that she had
been striving, she confded to her
part Of the Lane that a number Of
miliionaires, including an eminent
magnate or two, and others equally
! We'll known, were on her list as posi-
/ bic customers. Millionaires and SO
j the Bonner selections mounted up.
Credit along Diamond Lane being
! OILY ole In
salespeople having a basis on conf
dence instead of capital, a memoran-
dunn is worth only as much as the
signature attached to 1t. And yet on
mere memorandum a considerable
part of the jewelry business is con-
Quoted.
/ Without capital. without collateral,
with nothing but her poise, PERSONAL
/ fty and promise. Antoinette Bonner
/ accepted the trades memorandum and
employed it first as means to legrt,-
mate sales, for which she made pro-
/ per returns, and then, with confidence
established in operations such as
startled the Lane.
From one house alone, that OF Fran
/ els E. Cocks, the jewel balance
against her was $4,000 with only the
paper on which her name was written
! to show for it.
When the magnitude of this wom-
ans swindies became known through
comparison of notes and inter
change of depressing condolences, a
concerted investigation was begun.
Appropriately, the official eye of the
Lane took part.
1t was discovered that she had
maintained offices thinly set as to
showcase and strongly dominated by
u robust safe In a building on Thirty
fourth street.t Her firm was called
on the hall dire ~f1islinger & Bon
nor, Kislingor being a..~ssiIas openly
adopted and used by man named
Breschner. who had become the bust
ness associate of Miss Bonner when
her name began to have real value.
The office was entered and the safe
opened. 1t was found to be empty.
Tracing back along the Bonner line
it was found that she was French,
ard had come from Paris, and incl
dentally or otherwise that she had
cabled $1,000 to her home city on the
very day she had been bowed out of
| Diamond Lane.
Other facts came out-facts which
ought to have been known long be-
fore to be of timely value. A woman
riding in the subway one day year
or so ago had warned the passengers
that she felt as if she was about to
faint, and losing no time she did faint
or pretended to. Such aid as was
possible in a moving train was forth
coming and she resumed the normal
and Immediately clutched at her hand
bag and announced that several thou
sand dollars worth of precious stones
were missing. The police did not find
the gems. The woman gave the name
of Antoinette Bonner.
In the meantime the search for the
jewelry was under way. It led
naturally to pawnshops; it led sue
cessfnlly to pawnshops. Under the
name of Jackson & Strong as much of
the memorandum goods from Dia
mond Lane had been unloaded as the
larger pawnbrokers could assimilate.
Flawless gems commanded a high
price even when pledged for loans.
Pawn tickets for superior goods are
always marketable. The memoran-
dunn jewels had been made to produce
a double revenue. The cleanup might
have been 100000.
anu now, DeCduSe OI their LOSSES
and the fact that they We're made pos
sble because of methods which obtain
in the trade, diamond brokers are
seeking advice as to a form of memo
randum to balk other Miss Amethysts.
1.-The jewelry or diamond memoran-
dunn has little binding effect" said
Louis II. Moos, counsel for one of the
brokers' IF the agent fails to return
the goods or their value, he cannot be
convicted of larceny unless it is prov
ed that he kept the goods or the money
obtained for them. If the agent repre-
sents that he lost the goods, or that
they were stolen from him, or that he
was cheated out of them, he cannot be
convicted of q crime unless the state
ments are proved.-New York.
1t is reported that the sea of Galilee
produces sardines of a superior flavor
and there is a plan to establish a cam
ming factory on the shore of the lake.
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