FLIGHT OF LEMOINE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 228, 19 June 1908, Page 7

FLIGHT OF LEMOINE.

HO DIAMONDS YET. A SUCAR-ANB-CARBON RECIPE. WARRANT ISSUED. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTRIGHT g (Rec. June 18, 9.61 p.m.) Paris, Juno 18. Lemoine, who is charged with swindling Sir Julius Wernher of £64,000 on . pretence ( that ho can manufacture diamonds, and who j was liberated on bail to give him a chance j to provo his skill, has tied. ( The envelope which was deposited with the Union of London and Smith's Bank, j and which to contain tho for- - inula for the manufacture of the diamonds, has been opehed. It stated: — r "Take powdered sugar and carbon, place ( them in a crucible, and raise the tempera- ( ture of the furnace to 1700 or 1800 degrees i Centigrade. Thus obtain crystallisation. Next apply pressure to the lid. The diamonds are then made." t Experts describe the formula as an excellent hoax. In a letter to the magistrate, Lemoino states that the owner of a factory impeded his experiments. If these experiments were brought to a successful conclusion elsewhere, he would reappear and confound his detractors. A warrant has been issued for bis arrest. A LABORATORY INCIDENT. Giving ovidencg before the French Court, an Englishman, Mr. Jackson, said that he .had been present at two experiments in Lemoine 9 laboratory.- Lemoine was completely naked in order to "show that , there was no trick. Mr. Jackson himself compounded tho substances, put them into a crucible, and scaled it up. Lemoine then ran the crucible into the electno furnace on a shovel, the handlo of which was about 15ft. long. About 25 minutes afterwards he drew the cruciblo out; Mr. Jackson opened it, and found, in it 25 little diamonds. At another time they obtained 30. He offered the diamonds to a London jeweller, who found them very fine, but refused to take them without a certificate of origin. An espert to whom he then showed them told him that they came from Jagersfontein, and gave him a certificate. The jeweller then paid a good price for tnora, and asked for more.