PEARL CONJUROR.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 1

PEARL CONJUROR.

BERLIN, April 2. The Berlin police have in their hands a man -whom the police of Paris have been searching for since 1925 and who want to talk to him about a conjuring trick which they say he performed in air office of an Indau dealer in pearls in Paris. The man, who said he was Leon Lyn, of Montevideo, was arrested here for frauds, and the police in the ordinary course of business informed their Vienna colleagues, who passed hack the information that I.colt X,yn of Montevideo, was to them .Tacoh Tvlinger, of Java, wanted in Paris for the theft of pearls worth £38,000. As Mr. Benjamin Silver, of New York, this man had made the acquaintance of a Russian business man in a. Paris hotel and asked him where he could got some really good pearls. The Russian arranged to take him to the office of Sid Hardsell an Savartschand, the agent of an important Bombay firm, to see some pearls, and even arranged for the presence of an expert. The supposed American chose necklaces containing 1.200 beautiful pearls and undertook to pay for them. Under the eyes of the Russian, the oxpci-t, and the jeweller the elegant customer put the necklaces one hv one in an envelope, which lie closed with a. seal. The packet was then handed to the dealer, who placed it in liis safe, and the customer was to call the next day with, the money. Forty-eight hours passed, and inquiries for Mr. Silver at the hotel where he was staying showed that nobody had over heard of him. The dealer opened the packet and found instead of the pearl necklaces worthless strings of glass “pearls.” Experts among the Paris police were unable to determine how the fake necklaces were changed for the real. They will he glad to know how the conjuror did the trick.