Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-24

these facts it was noted that Maxlmo
was diligent. law abiding and re-
served
THE inspector sent a deputy from
l. Scotland Yard TO the village of
Bra ndon. and this aide sought a resi-
dent who remembered the father Of
Orestes such a one was found and
taken to Naples. Then. with the
signor and the inspector leading the
way an excursion was made into the
PIP zza Emmanuel.
The visitor from Scotland bought
some fish and recognized Maxine.
Then he went back home. for lnspec-
tor Savage decided TO play waiting
game.
1t was many weeks before the
Italian detectives who watched the
fish shop day and night intercepted
the old man just as he was about to
post a letter to his son. In the letter
they found what they wanted--the
address of OreSteS. who then was back
in London.
Within a few hours the youth was
in custody.
There was little difficulty in per-
sua ding both OresteS and his father
to tell their stories-and to reveal the
hiding place of the ma jor portion of
the Hamilton Brandon collection of
Jewels and antiquities They had only
begun to venture the sale of them.
and, so far. nearly all they had dis
posed of We're pieces that seemed to
them to have no value at all. or, if
valuable. could best be disposed of as
inconsequential things for small
amounts to little shop keepers.
No one was more surprised than
Orestes when he learned that the
cube of sparkling glass" was the
largest amethyst in the world.
1T was them says Signor Cam
pinini. that / learned how patient
and preserving a thief may be-
III his young days, according to
the police records, Maxine Eannini
had been one of Europe's most dan
gerous petty thieves. But with his
marriage he had reformed, had re-
ceived police clearance, and had be-
come an apparently honest trades
man. With the death of his wife,
and with his little son on his hands,
he had dreamed a plan by which to
insure against the poverty of old age.
A former companion, who still was a
thief. sought and obtained information
about the various great collections OF
rare gems and priceless souvenirs
gathered in many a private house in
England-a country far from Italy.
There is plenty to be read and heard
any place, about the Hamilton-Bran-
don heirlooms. And the home of the
dukes of Hamilton and Brandon
is far in Scotland, out of the track of
the continental police!
The fishmonger sold his shop and
went. with his boy. to the Brandon
village. AS soon as he was old enough
to understand, Signor Campinini has
noted in his records, the father began
to train his son to grow up and some
day steal the jewels from the castle.
Long evenings, in their village hut,
the father explained the cautions to
be practiced, the skill to be learned
and the patience to be relied upon
The stake. the father explained, was
more than half q million dollars
quite sufficient for the boys young
years and his old age.
Five years his son must wait after
he had been received in the manor
house, the shrewd father decided, and
Orestes obeyed - patiently and dog
gedly. In those five years he prac-
ticed at the locks and keys and located
he hiding place where later the
iewelry was safely hidden, while In
spector Savage searched and searched
until, months after, the boy put a
climax to his "brooding" by announc-
ing his intention to take himself and
his sixpences in savings down to
London.
AS part of the bargain for the re-
turn of such of the collection as had
not been disposed of and directions to
recover the balance of it, the father
was not prosecuted. Orestes went to
the Kings. Prison in Glasgow.
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