TRIAL OF NECKLACE THIEVES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7

TRIAL OF NECKLACE THIEVES.

PEARLS IDENTIFIED IN COURT.

A DAZZLING DISPLAY.

By TeloffTODh—Presa Association—OopyrlcM London, September 18. Tho hearing of the caso against Josojih. Grizgard, Simon Silverman, and Loisir. Gutwirtli (Austrian, diamond dealers), and Jock Lockett (jeweller), charged on remand with being concerned in tho theft of tho pearl necklace, was continued at Bow Street . Polico Court to-day. Tho chief feature of tho proceedings was tho exhibition of tho pearls -in Court. Mr. Mayer formally identified them.

_ Spanier, who took part in tho negotiations for the purchase of the\pearls, identified tho matchbox found on Tuesday last as tho ono in which prisoners had tho pearls when th'ey. showed them to him.

It is_ regarded as notablo that the dramatic find followed a fow hours after tho release of M'Carthy, tho old man whorlhad dealt with notes paid to Lockott. 0 FINEST GEMS STILL' MISSING. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, September 18. Home, tho artisan who found fiftynine pearls in a cutter at Highbury, states that after aolivering tho pearls at tho police station ho found one more in his pocket. Ho offered it to various people at a publio house, thinking it wa-a a marble. He asked a penny for it, but. nobody bought it. Ho subsoquontly lost it somewhero. Mr. Mayer, tho owner of the necklace, states that the two missing pearls wero tho finost among tho round gems. Tho value of tho two missing drop pearls together is £15,000. (Reo. September 19, 11.15 p.m.) London, Soptomber 19. A sensation was causod in Court when tho necklace was produced. Tho largest pearls aro half an inch in diamotpr, with a texture tho delicacy of flame. Their brilliancy and lustre astonished tho exports who wore present. Spanior' told a xomantio story. After tho price had been fixed—ono hundred thousand francs—Spanior met Gutwirtli at First Avenue Hotel, whero tho other prisoners, wero mysteriously introduced to him. They tried to, persuade them to como to a private house, but Spanier refused, ana finally Grizgard engaged a room in First Avenue, locked and bolted tho door, and produced tho necklace. Spanier then described how ho had simulated anger, and complained that they had humbugged Him in order to liastoa the deal

Cross-examined, !h© said that! one time .he, Quadradstein, and_ Brandstatter were in a room with' Silverman and Grizgard, and could have 6crcamcd for assistance'and secured tho necklaco immediately, but they preferred to abide their time, pay the prices, and follow up the instructions for tho purchase of the two pearls. Finally they gave tho accused ten minutes'- start to enablo them to escape.