JEWELLER'S £4000 LOSS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 6

JEWELLER'S £4OOO LOSS.

KOKUEI) liY A CUIILY-ILEADKD ' HOY. If an innocent-looking curly-haired boy of lifteen should happen to present t himself for employment at a I'aris . jeweller's shop at the present moment > he will probably get black looks and possibly a few epithets. , The brothers .Silberiuann, of the Hue . des Frances. Ilourgeois, Paris, are in a slate of furv, as they have lost precious '. stones to the value ('if t'-1000. and attribute their disappearance to a little apprentice whom they took into their employ, lie. looked the picture of innocence and proved a skilful worker, so they gave him a good deal of precious stuif to handle. A day or two nftenvnids, when the workmen had come back from their early dinner, the boy was missing, and I so was a quantify of brilliants, sap- | pliircs and pearls. The masters at I once suspected the boy,'and their sitsI picions were soon eonlirmed bv one of | their hands, who related that'while lie I was in the employ uf another firm. :• boy, who was the' very image of thn. one. hail flitted with ' jewellery worth ■C4OOO. lie had seen him later on in tli.> Zoological (lardens with an older person. alio was passed oil' as his brother, and will] an a ged woman. An investigation instituted by the judicial aulliorilies led to the discovery that a young man and a boy had been engaged in the robbery of various jewellers, the lad going by different names. As a rule, lite thefts had varied from c:tail to ■ Ciflit; Iml this time a coup of much greater magnitude had been al-I templed with perfect success.