The New York herald., 1922-04-23
GLASS IN NECKLACE
FOR 1O5 DIAMONDS
Valuable Pearl Also Substituted
i'm Pin Of Palmer of Port {.
Chester.

While living in his summer home in
Port Chester, George Quintard Palmer.
whose winter residence is at | East
than five months ago that worthless
sgems had been substituted for los
stones in a diamond necklace and for a
valuable pearl in necktie pin, it be-
came known yesterday. The jewel.y was
insured for $4,000 and this amount has
been paid by the Federal Insurance
Company, whose private detectives. the
WeFtchester authorities and the New
York police have been working on the
case since November
few weeks ago a jeweler in Sixth
avenue admitted to the police that he
substituted the bogus stones and pearl
for man named Harry Hirsch. to
whom he returned the original Jewels.
Hirsch was located and he In turn de-
clared that man named Alex Einaldo.
another diamond dealer, had given him
the necklace and stickpin. Rinaldo ex-
planned that a woman had asked that
imitation stones be substituted. This
woman left an address with Rinaldo
that the police found to be vacant lot.
CONTINUED activity of burglars has led
to the establishment in this city of a
staff of engineers to cooperate with
burglary insurance companies im inspect
Ing and supervising burglar alarms and
other preventive devices. On May en-
.gineers of the casualty department of
Underwriters Laboratories will move
from Chicago to this city, where they
will operate under the direction of Dana
Pierce and II. b. Michael. The service
also has been extended to cover automo-
bile and casualty insurance.
Pocketbook Gone, She Screams.
Mrs. Josephine Devinctas of 338 Hud-
son avenue, Brooklyn. was riding home
yesterday on De kalb avenue car when
she missed hir pocketbook containing
$21.08. She saw man leaving the car
and screamed. The man was chased by
a crowd until he was captured two
blocks away by Patrolman Stinpf. He
said he was Joseph Solomon, aged 81, a
shoe cutter out of work.
Miss Gertrude Atkins. a private detec-
tive at one time on the staff of the Dis
trict Attorney of Queens. was beaten
Friday night and robbed of sos and her
badge in Borden avenue, Long Island
city, two blocks from the Long Island
Railroad ferry.
Two men who said they were Gerald
Cron'n, aged a. Of 40S East Seventy
eighth street. and James Judge. "a, OF
sl2 West Forty-ninth street. were ar
rested early yesterday on charges of
felonious assault after an unidentified
man had been found unconscious from
q fractured skull in West Forty-sixth
street near Eighth avenue.
Thieves early yesterday broke into the
Apollo Hat Frame Company. Inc. 126
Clinton street. next to the Clinton street
police station. They drilled the safe and
took $3.50 in negotiable stocks belonging to
Benjamin Zuckman, member of the firm.
Taxicab Driver Is Held Up.
Jacob Levinson OF 4S5 East 17Sth
street The Bronx, was held up early
yesterday by three young men whom he
had driven in his taxicab from Times
Square to 18th street and Valentine
avenue. The Bronx. Levinson shouted
"Policer' and one m struck him with
a. revolver His cry was heard by
Patrolman John Butler. who captured
Ned Stone. aged 20, of 23S West 10th
street. former bank clerk. The two
others escaped.
More than twenty burgla.ies in the
Bedford and Clinton Heights sections
of Brooklyn are said by the police to
have been admitted yesterday by
Joseph Thomas, aged 10, of 81 Steu-
hen street. Brooklyn. and Frank Ref
ferman. 16, Of 80 Emerson place, Brook
lyn. They were held in 5000 bail each.
Solomon Nathanson of Plainfield. ~.
r.. when In Harlem Court yesterday,
saw James Egan. %. of 40 East 124th
street. and accused him of being one OF
four automobile thieves who held him
up recently and robbed him of $500.
Egan. who was with his wife, was ar
rested.
Louis Goldstein. age %, of IS For
syth street. and Samuel Cohen, SO, or
11s Norfolk street, were held In $5,Oo0
bail Yesterday by Magistrate Frothing-
ham on complaint OF Mrs. Anna Price.
aged so, who said they entered her
room in Norfolk street Friday and
robbed her of $1,000 in diamonds and
furs.