THE DIAMOND-MAKER.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 530, 25 March 1908, Page 3

THE DIAMOND-MAKER.

FORMULA STILL SECRET. [»V BIiECTEIO TEIiEGEAPH COPX-IGTI.j IPER PRESS ASSOCIATION,! A fresh application made by tho French Government at Bow street Police Court, to secure release from the Bank of tlie envelope containing Lemoino's recipe for the manufacture of diamonds, has been refused, as Lemoine objects. The French Magistrate, M. Le Poittevin, is embarrassed by the fact that the formula is in the hands of a London bank. Lemoine offers to make diamonds in the presence of the. Magistrates, but stipulates that lie be liberaed on bail. The diamond magnate, Sir Julius Wernher, who charges Lemoine with defrauding him, objects to the stipulation. Lemoine, for his part, prohibits the disclosure of the formula, which was deposited in the London baftk hy agreement with Sir Julius Wernher. Giving evidence before the French court, an Englishman. Mr Jackson, said that he had been present at two experiments in Lemoiue's laboratory. Lemoine was completely naked in order to show that there was no trick. Mr Jackson himself compounded the substances, put them in a crucible, and sealed it up. Lemoine then ran the crucible into the electric furnace on a shovel the handle of which was about 15 feet long. About twenty-five minutes afterwards he drew the crucible out. Mr Jackson opened it, and found in it 2o 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 ot 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 tor more. _______