THIEF SEEKS RECEIVER

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1936, Page 14

THIEF SEEKS RECEIVER

£B,OOO GEMS TO PETTICOAT-LANE. LONDON, May 2. John Dimente, 28, a Pimlico signwriter, who was sentenced on Tuesday at the Old Bailey to IS months’ imprisonment for stealing jewellery worth £B,OOO from Mrs Eugenie Bonsor, a wealthy widow, of Seymourstreet, W„ gave evidence at Marylebone Police Court yesterday when three men were charged with receiving the jewellery. The men were John Harris, 65, job buyer, of Osborne-road, Forest Gate; Nathan Sussiene, 35, street trader, of Brunswick Buildings, New Goulstonstreet, E.; and Samuel Harris, 56. Dimente stated in the witness-box ( that on November 24—a Sunday—the jewels were in his possession. “Not being in connection with any receivers of stolen property,” he continued, “I went to the East End of London to see who would buy them. The first man I spoke to was named Freeman, and from Freeman I went to another man, who was auctioneering or selling on a stall in the next turning to what is known as Petticoat Lane” (Middlesex-street, E.). That man, Dimente said, was Sussiene, who took them upstairs to his flat, where the jewels were produced. Sussiene went out, and on his return said 1 , “I have found someone. You must come to a tea shop.” Dimente added, “He asked me how much I wanted for the jewels, and I said that I did not know the value of them, but I would be satisfied with £2O an article.

“The jewels were actually in my pocket. I went with him to the tea station. Sussiene left me with Freeman, and told me to take a seat at the back of the shop, and he sat down at a table where two other men were seated.’’ The other two men were Samuel and John Harris. When he left the shop, accompanied by Sussiene and Freeman, the other two men followed', and eventually caught them up in a side turning neai 1 the Minories. John Harris said the jewels were not worth £2O an article, and eventually he (Dimente) received £2O for live pieces. More was promised, but was not received. After questions to a police inspector about the presence of young men at an identification parade, the three accused were remanded on bail until next Friday.