Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-08-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GREAT JEWEL SWINDLE.  All Paris is talking about a story which resembles a good dat that of" The Q reen's neckl me." la tire month of February last a jtwelie- in Paris, M. Cramer' received a letter sealed with the Prussian atvas, aud signed " Comte de Schaffgotsch," Chainiterlain to his M tjesty the Ring of Prussia, in which he was asked if he wished to undertake the execution of stone models, in brilliants, of an order which the Queen intended to create. The jeweller immediately accepted, and some days afterwards there arrived some drawings executed by the Queen herself. 'The jeweller set to work forthwith, and in a tew weeks afterwards he transnrita.ed to Berlin a magnificent cross, surrounded with diamonds. He received congratulations, and an order for a dozen more di tin ind crosses, with a further promise of an order Inc the crown of the Prince of Hohenzollern as Sovereign of the Danubian Principalities. The jeweller was the happiest of men. His fortune was evidently made. But when and how was he to forward the crosses The count replied that he was just then charged with a diplomatic mission, and that on a day tram d he would be at Cologne, and would receive the decorations at a banker's in that town. Tire jeweller sends the crosses to the house of Oopenheim, informing them that they were to be delivered to ths Chainbt•rltin of the Queen of Prussia. Some days afterwards the Cbunt informed by letter the interI mediate agents that he would pass through the town at a certain hour, and begged them to forward to him the jeweller's parcel through a clerk. No sooner said than done. The Queen of Prussia was delighted, and her chamberlain gives to the jeweller another order for crosses, to be also set in diamonds. But there was nothing said as to payment, and the jeweller, uneasy in mind, did at last what he should have done at first. He called upon the Prussian Ainbassivfor at Paris. who informed him that he had been dealing with a knave, and that the Itaters were all forged. The jeweller, in consternation, t.ets out for Baden, under the advice of the ambassador, sees the Queen, and is assured by her that she is an entire stranger to the whole story of the crosses. On his return to Pa is the jeweller receives another letter from the pretended count, who insinuates this trine that he might himself be decorated with the order of the Red Eagle. Now, however, the jew-Iler was on his guard. The police were communicated with, and they managed to draw the fox into the trap. He is, it appears, a man of god fatuity, whom passion for gambling has ruined; lie•is the sun of an old general, and bolds himself rank and title at the Court of Prussia, &c. The police have seized, at the hotel where he put up in Paris allthe jeweller's letters, some diamonds detached from the crosses, with several visiting cards, having the name of the Count of Schaffgotsch on them, together with a blank stamp bearing the i arms of the Queen iof Prussia, &c. Tuis very curious affair will Loou be unravelled before the tribunals.  A most revolting scene was witnessd at Stafford on Tuesday, at the execution of a man named Collier. When the drop fell, the body of the culprit dragged the rope from the beam, and he dropped to the ground in an uprilht position with the rope round his neck. As ..00n as this was okerved, with as little delay as po:Able a second rope was obtained, the murderer again ascended the se ffold, and the awful sentence of the law was carried out.  The ceremony of launching a new lifeboat, presented to the National Lifeboat Institution by the tit oprietors of the " Quiver " malazioe, was celebrated in M ireate on Tuesday afternoon, in the presence of from 15.000 to 20,000 persons. Fire years since the Rev. Teignmouth Shot e, M.A., the editor of the " Quiver," made an appeal to big readers in aid of the Roy,' National Lifeboat Institution, and the result has been the contribution of about .£2.000. With that WM three lifeboats and lifeboat stations have been erected, and Margate, where there were already two boats, was selected as one of the most deserving places. On Tuesday afternoon, the I meek and christening of the boat took place; the latter by the wife of the vicar, the Bev. Canon Bateman.  -- •