THE STOLEN NECKLACE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 225, 20 September 1913, Page 5

THE STOLEN NECKLACE.

NEGOTIATING FOR THE PEARLS A ROMANTIC STORY. LONDON, September 19. At yesterday's trial of the four men charged with the theft of the pearl necklace, there was a sensation when the necklace was produced. The largest pearls are half an inch in diameter. Their texture and delicacy of flame, brilliancy, and lustre, are astonishing, according to the experts present. Spanier. one of the witnesses, identified the matchbox found on Tuesday as the I same as that in which the prisoner showed him the pearls. j Spanier told a romantic story. After. Price had furnished 100,000 francs' (£4,000), Spanier met Gutwirth (one of the accused) in First Avenue Hotel. The' other prisoners were mysteriously intro-1 duced. and they tried to persuade him to ] come to a private house. I Spanier refused, and finally Grizzard engaged a room at the First Avemie Hotel, locked and bolted the door, and j produced the necklace. Spanier described how he simulated : anger and complained that he had been ; humbugged in order to hasten the deal. | Gross-examined, he said that at oise | time he, Quadranstein, and Brandstatter i were in the room with Silverman and j Grizzard. He coulH have screamed for assistance and secured the necklace imMediately, but he preferred to abide by i Price's instructions to purchase the two pearls. j Finally he gave the accused r. ten '"minutes' start to enable them to escape.