£150,000 NECKLACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 September 1913, Page 5

£150,000 NECKLACE.

SENSATIONAL ARRESTS.

A WOMAN IN THE CASE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copthicixit] [.United Press Association.] London, September 3. The necklace suspects have been charged with the theft and receiving Three, were arrested at a tube station after a struggle, and the others were arrested in a public house near Hatton Garden, where some of tin arrested men have offices. All are well known in London. It is understood that the pearls were stolen in Park and brought to London for disposal. Efforts to sell them enabled Scotland Yard to effect the arrests, it is reported that a woman will figure prominently in connection with the arrests. EVIDENCE OF A DETECTIVE. (Received 9 a.m.) London, September 3. Joseph Grizzard, Simon Silverman, a.id Leisir Gumworth (Austrian diamond sellers), John Lockett (jeweller) and James Macarthy, aged eightytu» were charged at How Street Court in connection with the pearl robbery and remanded for a week. A detective deposed that be an; others watched the prisoners on Mo:r day at the museum and the statioi and arrested them on Tuesday, €230 in gold and Bank of England notes were found on Macarthy. Later he declared he was innocent and said he had first sold two houses, and added that a continental gentlcmar had given him French bank notes, which he had changed for English ones. Lockett, being' searched, there were found on him £330 in bank notes, jewellery, and several pearls. Silverman had a quantity of French notes and pawn tickets for £BO for a. bunch of pearls.