ALLEGED FRAUDS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 155, 25 March 1908, Page 7

ALLEGED FRAUDS.

PROSECUTIONS IN FRANCE. LGMOJNE, THE DIAMOND-MAKER. FORMULA STILL SECRET. BY TEI.r.GKArn —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGET. (Bee. March 24, 11.30 p.m.) London) March 24. A fresh application made by tho Ip-endi Government at 13ov/ Street Police Court, to secure relpaso from tho • Bank of the onvelopo containing Lemoino's, recipe for the manufacture of diamonds, has been refused, as LcmoinO objects. Henri llochotto, company promoter, has been arrested in Paris charged with frauds in connection With his flotation of industrial stocks representing three millions sterling. Ho employed 400 clerks.

A PECULIAR CASE. Tho French Magistrate, it. lio Poittevin. in embarrassed by the fact that the formiiia > is in the hands of a London bank. Lemonio filters to. make diamonds in the presence ot the Magistrates, but stipulates Umt lie be hoenytcil on bail. The diamond magnate Sir ■ Julius WVnlier, who charftcs Lei'noine with defrauding liim, objects to the stipulation. Lemoine, for his part, prohibits ' the disclosure of the formula, which was deposited in the London bank by agreement with Sir Julius Woruher. Givin*},' evidence before, the French court, an Englishman, Mi*. Jackson, said, that he had been present' at two experiments in Lemoines laboratory. Lcmoine was completely naked in order to show that there was no trick. Mr.' Jackson himself cofhpoumlcd tho substances, put (hem into a cruoiblo, and sealed it up. ■ Lemoino then ra;i tho crucible into tho electric furnace on a shovel, the handle of which was about 15 feet lofii;. About twentylive minutes afterwards he drew the crucible out. Mr. Jackson opened it, and found m it 25 littlo diamonds. At another time they obtained 30. He offered the diamonds to a London jeweller, Who found them- very fine, but. refused to tnko them without a Certificate of origin. An expert to whom he then showed them told him . that they'came from Jagersfontein and gavo him a certificate. ■ The jeweller then paid a Good price! for them and asked for more.