MANUFACTURE OF DIAMONDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 18 April 1908, Page 5

MANUFACTURE OF DIAMONDS.

M. LEMOINB'3 SECRET. LONDON, April ]5. The King's Bench Division of the High Court has ordered the Union of London and Smiths' Bank to deliver to the Bmv Street magistrate .the packet supposed to contain Lemoine's formula lor diamond-making. The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Alverstone) remarked that the court did not diirct what the magistrate should do with the packet. Lemoine is alleged to have gone to London ami entered into negotiations with a member of Sir Julius Wernher's firm for the purpose of working a reported new process for the manufacture of im'tatioc diamonds. Hr is said to have declared that he had discover-d a chemical secret whereby he could manufacture false diamonds so perfectly that it was impossible even for an expert to tell on handling- the stones that they were not real. In support of his statement he produced .several stones, which he declared he had manufactured, and which, it is now alleged, were in reality real diamonds. Lemoine succeeded in obtaining no less than £G4.ODO from the diamond magnate, buc after receiving part payment the nature of his tests aroused suspicion, whereupon feeling hurt, h:-'. departed and then disappeared, hut was subsequently arrested in Paris.