THE DIAMOND MAKER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 5

THE DIAMOND MAKER

BANK KEFUSES TO PELIVER THE FORMULA.

IPKESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, April 4. In ordfciring 1 ihe Union, of London and Smiths-Bank tc produce M. I.cDjoino's scaled packet, Sir Albert Derutsen, at tue'Bow Street Court, intimated that he wa« net empowered to enforce the order; but other steps would be taken ii it were not obeyed. The B.mk declined to produce the packet. .

rLemoine, who is a .Fajench engineer, vwi arrested in" 'Paris early in January on a charge of swindling Sir Juku* Wernher of £64,000 by pretending to manufacture diamands. Lemovne held that he had demonstrated his ' discovery, and, the/t Messrs Beit and Weniher and others at the head of the diamond tirade had ratified hie claims. ~on the other hand, it was reported that a, jeweller had given evidence that he had furnished Lemoine with fusible plugs for the crucibles used in the experiments, so •that read diajnonds could be concealed in them. It, appears that contract with {sir "Julius Wernher stipulated that Vhe formula of the manufacture of diamonds should bs in a Loadou b^au, and should not be opened unlil Lemoine's death, when it would become the property of Sir Julius. The aagisfcrate who has been hearing fhe 1 case in France into* 6*6 * «"»*. Ume ag^ thathfi waa considering w Wf™™ ™ obtaining and opening the enve*^ ' T^_ message on Saturday intimated tbat x~ moune had been released on condition that he proved within two months that he is able to man/ufactinre diamonds.]