Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-13
POLICE PUZZLED.
Napoleon of Crime Having Full Sway
In London.

Napoleon Of Crime Having Full Sway
In London.
A Napoleon has been reborn in Lon
don-a Napoleon of crime.
Great jewel robberies have been the
outstanding feature of this London
season, robberies so huge that Scotland
Yard itself admits that these robberies
are the work of a master mind, a su-
per crook.
Newspapers are likening this super
crook to Prof. Moriarty-Conan
Doyles famous fiction character.
Scotland Yard sleuths have already
named the unknown super-crook MO
riarty." They are fully convinced that
he is at the head of an international
protective organization of crooks,
which plans burglary, safe breaking
and jewel stealing on an unprecedent-
ed scale.
"Moriarty," they say, has a town
house and country house, a fleet Of
motor cars, and host of friends, both
straight and crooked, in London's best
society. They do not know what Mo-
riarty looks like. He may be a lord
for all they. know. brit they are con-
vinced that he is a an high in soci-
ETY..
j. w. Bell, one of London's leading
assessors, claims to know the man, but
dares not give him away. All he will
say is that "Moriarty" is the financier
and brains of the thieves who work
for him.
Women Agents.
"Moriarty," Bell claims, has women
agents as we'll as men-some Of them
he declares, are titled. They will
watch an intended victim for months,
trail him across continents, work their
way into his homes as maid servants
or confidantes, until the time is ripe to
strike.
Detectives declare that in all the
latest big jewel hauls the victims have
been shadowed for months.
Here are a few of the big "jobs"
which have taken place this season:
Mrs. j. Byrne, an American, robbed
of 100000 worth Of jewelry.
Business mans wife robbed of s20,-
900 worth of Jewels in big hotel.
World famous collection of gold
coins stolen from the Albany apart
ments, London.
Theft Of thirty pearl necklaces from
a fashionable jewel store
ruby set goblets from a house on
Brighton road.
In no case has there been any trace
of the missing valuables. Usually in
the case Of common criminals part
Of the booty turns up here or on the
continent"
New Coupe Daily.
Every day the newspapers banner
head jewel hauls. Recently two wo-
men, said to be agents of "Moriarty,'
walked into jewelry store and asked
to be shown a gold bag. When the
bag was produced the two girls, both
of whom were pretty and stylishly
weigh the bag The young man retir-
ed to the back of the shop, and the
girls calmly put their hands through
the partition separating the window
from the shop and scooped up two
trays full of diamond rings valued at
$4,000.
When the young man came back he
noticed nothing, as the partition had
been closed after the theft The girls
calmly asked the weight of the bag,
and, being told, declared it was too ex-
pensive.
They smiled sweetly and walked out.
They have not been seen since, but
police say they answer the description
of "Moriarty's" most aristocratic wo-
men assistants.
London is echoing with the theft
from married couple living in Corn
wall of the following: Twelve diamond
brooches. rope of 2S4 pearls, gigantic
ruby, formerly in the fez of famous
Shah of Persia; other jewels valued at
$4,000.
And again the police are bafhed
rewards offered already run into
tens of thousands of dollars but the
police say such rewards are useless.
The master mind, this Napoleon OF
crime, pays his agents so we'll that at
a paltry bribe they turn up their ari.i
tocratic noses.-London Letter.