THAT PEARL NEGKLACE

Northern Advocate, 4 September 1913, Page 5

THAT PEARL NEGKLACE

ARRESTS ON SUSPICION,

PAWN TICKETS FOR PEARLS DISCOVERED.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright)

LONDON, Sept. 3

In connection with the mysterious disappearance of the pearl necklace valued at £ 150,000 which was transmitted by post from Paris to London in July last and which has occupied much public attention ever since, the police have arrested Joseph Grizzard, Simon Silverman and Leisir Gumwith, Austrian diamond dealers, and John Lockett a jeweller, and James Macarthy, aged 82.

The accused were charged at Bow Street Police Court to-day, and remanded for a week.

A detective deposed that he and others watched the prisoners on Monday last at the Museum station and arrested them on Tuesday.

Gold and Bank of England notes to the amount of £230 were found on Macarthy. The latter declared his innocence, and said he had just sold two houses. He added that a Continental gentleman had given him French bank notes which he changed for English.

On Lockett being searched, there were found on him £330 in bank notes, jewellery, and several pearls.

Silverman had in his possession a quantity of French notes, and pawn tickets for £ 80 for a bunch of pearls.