MORE STORIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 16, 19 September 1913, Page 5

MORE STORIES.

THE £150,000 NECKLACE.

PEARLS BEFORE "SWANKS."

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun* Spkciai. Cables.

London, September 18

Home, the tinder of the pearls, states that after delivering the pearls at the police station lie found one packet and offered it to various people at a public house, thinking it was marble, and asked a penny for it. Nobody bought, and subsequently he lost it somewhere. Mr Mayer states that two of the missing pearls were the finest amongst 'the round gems. The value of two of the missing drop pearls together was £15,000. A barmaid at the tavern where Home first brought the necklace says that she saw a man with a pearl in his hand. He left the bar and went to a basin in the lavatory. On returning the other men asked what he had done with "the marble," and he said he had thrown it away. A search made in the waste-pipe was fruitless. It is assumed, that it has passed into the sewer. The men regarded Home's find as a joke, and were carelessly handling the necklace. The detectives swept beneath the seats vainly. dnap er

CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK

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It is understood that the thieves carefully engineered the theft of the necklace, believing that it was composed of diamonds. They were bitterly disappointed to find pearls, as diamonds were virtually untraceable. The Chronicle states that when the full story is told it will be found that the main credit of the discovery be--longs to Quadratstein, a man of keen intellect, inflexible will and courage. He gained the full confidence of the thieves and exercised such influence that they were prepared to meet him anywhere and do anything he asked. Though shadowed for 12 days before being arrested, the thieves' confidence in Quadratstein was not lessoned.

Brandstatter states that Scotland Yard last week informed him confidentially that they knew exactly where the necklace was to be found.

THE PEARLS IN COURT

(Received 12.30 p.m.) London, September 18. ' The chief feature in the necklace case to-day was' the exhibition of the pearls in Coiirt, where Mr Mayer identified them. ' , Spanier identified the match-box found on Tuesday as tele same in which the prisoners showed him the pearls. It is regarded as notable that tin dramatic find followed a few hours sifter Macarthy's release.