HORNE'S STORY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 September 1913, Page 5

HORNE'S STORY.

FINDING OF THE PEARLS. 'Times'— 'Sydney Hun' Special CaUes. «t«ceived Sept. 19, 8.80 a.m.) ' LONDON, Sept. ft. Home, the artisan who found ftt'tynine pearls'in a gutter at Highbury, states that after delivering the pearls at the police station he found one more in hie pocket. He offered it to various people at a public house, thiafcirtg it was a marble. He asked | a penny for it, but nobody bought it. He subsequently lost it somewhere. Mr Mayer, the owner of the necklace, states that the two missing pearls were the frnest among the Hdund gem*. The value of the two missing drop pearls together is £15,090. THE PEARLS W COURT. FORMAL IDENTIFI6ATION. (Received Sept. 19, 11.80 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. I*B. The hearing of the ease against Joseph Grizgard, Simon Silverman, and Leisir Guiwirth (A'ustrian diamond dealers), and John Locfcett (jeweller), charged on remand with being concerned in i)ie ■theft of the pearl necklace, was continued at Bow Street ipolice Court. . ; The chief feature of 1 the proceedings was" the exhibition of the pearls in eourt. Mr Mayer formally. identified them. Spanier, who took.part in the negotiations lor Ihe purchase of the pearls, identified a matchboox found on Tuesday last as the one in which prisoners had the pearls when they showed them to him. It is regarded as notable that the •dramatic find .followed a few hours after th.e release of McCarthy, the old man who had dealt with notes paid to Lockett.

PRODUCTION OF PEARLS. CAUSE A SENSATION.. SPANIER'S ROMANTIC STORY. (Received Last Niffht, 11.15 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 19: There wag a sensatidH when the necklace was produced. The largest pearls were half an inch in diameter, their texture delicacy of flame and brilliancy of lustre astonishing the experts present. Spanier told a romantic story. He said that after the price had been furnished at a hundred, thousand francs, he met Gutwirth at First Avenue Hotel. The other prisoners were mysteriously introduced, and tried to persuade him to cotae to a private house. Spanier l-efused, and finally Grizgard engaged a room in the'hotel. He locked and. bolted the door, and produced the necklace. , Spanier then described how he feigned being angry, and complained that he was humbugged, in order to hasten the deal. Under cross-examination, Spanier said that at one time lie", Quadradstein and Brandstalter were in a room with Grizgard and his companions. They could have screamed for assistance and seoured the necklace immediately, but they preferred to abide 'by the prices and their instructions to purchase two pearls. Finally they gave the accused ten minutes' start to enable them to escape.