THE DIAMOND-FAKER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 554, 8 July 1909, Page 5

THE DIAMOND-FAKER.

' HIS SENTENCE.. ' (By Tolegra ph.—Press Association.—Qopyricht,) , '* Paris, July ,6, -Henri Loraoine, who was oharged with pwlndLng Sir Jplins Wernhor out of £(>4,d00 by pretending that ho could, make diamonds, and who fled after ho had been liberated on bpil in order to give him a ohanoo to prove his skill, has beep sentenced to six years' imprisonment, a fine of £120, and banishment for flve yea^s. A MEMPRABLE HOAX, , Lemojne's great.secret was deposited with a London bank.in a seated envelope. After his flifrht, the Fronqh judge, in tha prasenoe of Sli Julius Wernhor, his oounsol ( and the experts, broke open 'he envelope with its formidable splasher of r«d wax, nnd roads ' To make diamonds it will suffice to lemploy the following procca:— (l) Take au, electric furnace; (2)' take same pow-, der of carbon obtained riom sugar; (3) place this qorbon in a crucible; {i) deposit it in a fnrnaco and raise tho tom.perature to from 1503 to 1800 with .i tension of 11G volt?; (5) uhen 1 this temperature is attained apply preseure through-the cover; (6) the diamonds, are now ready, and it only roniaius to take them from tho fnrnaco. 1 ■ Lmiwjre. I ~ Wh«n the inagUtrato hftd §tiisheil reading the' faces of'the experts .were 'a .study, . "Grot"infant!!e," i ' fr 'dioulpos ' 1 were sqmeof the inildest expressions, they used, But as the. aftazlng .document '.was passed- from hand to hanil W indJßriOtion. gratjuqlly gaye way {p aimi^nient, , and ■■ }WW>>. ■ « x P«ts, and ■ covnsel joined: in hearty laughter ajt tl\e anocess' with which'Lemoine' (iad Hept his great "secret'" to the 1 end.: "JustMvhnt J :ex()ec{«(l," remarked Sir Julius, .but he- did\nqt join in'the'general iaiightar.-i' ■-' v - :"• '-' L '" ■ "r'-', ''-i.' ■■ ■-■ .'' ! j.'ri)feissor' B'ordas, one of tho three '■ experts in.attendance,'remarked that,tha .forniula was an /iinpudent ; fraud ;jinvforthy ot , seripqs oqn-