THE LORD MAYOR'S PIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8407, 8 November 1912, Page 6

THE LORD MAYOR'S PIN.

".It. is a sin to steal a pin," according to a moral rhyme, that was taught to children some fifty or sixty years ago. The news that the Lord Mayor of London, has been assaulted by a person who tried to rob him of a valuable diamond pin is, therefore, evidence of , xampant wickedness in the modern Babylon. According to advices received "by this week's mail, the theft of tiepins has recently developed into a flourishing industry, arid an unusual method of robbery in a music-hall is described by the London correspondent of the Sheffield "Daily Telegraph." A visitor standing at the back of the stalls saw the diamond pin in the cravat of a man in tho, stalls suddenly begin to climb, apparently of its own accord, in a series of jerks. Tho man who owned it had his hands in his pockets, and on each side a man in evening dress was smoking a cigarette}. ■ "The 3iext jerk came just at tho moment •when these two men, with wonderful -precisionl, put their cigarettes to their, mouths. A word to an attendant was enough. The two ' gentlemen' in evening clothes went quietly. My friend later .picked up tho long horse hair that fiad stretched from the little finger of one to the little finger of the other."