The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-10-19
POLICE PUZZLED.
NAPOLEON of Crime Having Full Sway
in London.


don-a Napoleon of crime.
Great jewel robberies have been
the outstanding feature of this Lon
don season, robberies so huge that
Scotland Yard itself admits that
these robberies are the work OF a
master-mind, a super-crook.
Newspapers are likening this su-
per-crook to Prof. Moriarty-Conan
Doyle's famous fiction character.
Scotland Yard sleuths have already
named the unknown super-crook
"Moriarity." They are fully con-
vinced that he is at the head OF an
international protective organiza-
ton of crooks, which plans burglary,
safe-breaking and jewel stealing on
an unprecedented scale.
stMoriarty," they say, has a town
house and country house, a feet of
motor cars, and host of friends,
both straight, and crooked, in Lon
don's best society. They do not know
what Moriarty looks like. He may
be lord for all they know, but they
are convinced that he is a man high
in society.
wv. 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 f.
nancier and brains of the thieves
who work for him.
Women Agents.
.tMoriarty," Bell claims, has Wo-
men agents as well 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 confdantes, 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 few Of the big "jobs"
which have taken place this season:
Mrs. J. Byrne, an American, rob-
bed of 100000 worth of jewelry.
Business mans wife robbed of
$4,000 worth of jewels in big ho-
tel.
World-famous collection of gold
coins stolen from the Albany apart
ments, London.
Theft of thirty pearl necklaces
from a fashionable jewely store.
Robbery of 1sO gold snuff boxes
and ruby set goblets from a house on
Brighton road.
In no case has there been any
trace of the missing valuables. Usual
Iy 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 ''Aloriarty, }"
walked into jewelry store and ask
ed to be shown a gold bag. When the
bag was produced the two girls, both
OF whom we're pretty and stylishly
dressed, asked the shop assistant to
weigh the bag. The young man retir-
ed to the back of the shop, and the
girls calmly putt heir hands through
the partition separating the window
from the shop and scooped up two
trays full of diamond rings valued at
sos, 900.
When the young man came back ne
noticed nothing, as the partition had
been closed after the theft. 7 he girls
calmly asked the weight OF the bas'
and being told, declared it was too
expensive. =
They smiled sweetly and. walked
OUT. IuSy have nOI pSOh SSS1A 1N>~o~'
but police say they answer the de-
scription of "Moriarity's' most arls-
tocratic women assistants
London is echoing with the theft
from married couple living in Corn
wall of the following: Twelve dia-
mond brooches, rope Of 2S4 pearls,
gigantic ruby, formerly in the fez
of a famous Shah Of Persia; other
Jewels valued at $4,000.
And again the police are bafaed.
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 well that at
a paltry bribe they turn up their avis
tocratic noses.-London Letter.
Handouts Across the Wheeze.