£10,000 ROBBERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13727, 18 April 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

£10,000 ROBBERY.

VICTIM'S FAREWELL LETTER DRAMATIC SEQUEL Tmnr. was » dramatic and pathetic tUm in connection with a mysterious theft ■' £10,000 worth of diamonds from Mr. 1? Heymasn, oj Ely Place. Mr. Hfynu fiH was walking along Newgate-street ©a » recent Saturday when he wa» seised »itk: ! illness,» which incapacitated him for * f-, minute*.. When I « recovered he {<hi»j that diamonds worth £10.00) bad bees stolen from one of his pocket*. Moat a# i the property belonged to his sister'» hat. • Kind, Mr. A. Go,ion, of Amsterdam, «j the shock occasioned by the loss wj, „ acuta that. Mr. Max Heymsnn made %« his mind to die, and wrote farewell letUs to his wife and each of hi.* three broth**, and five sisters. Fortunately his dctifa was frustrated just in time. ™_.'. One of the inters, written to W brother, Mr. Maurice Heymann, of JSbt% Place, was is follows;— ™ "It is slicost too painful for me to {. for.ii you ox the terrible misfortune whkk has happened to me, '* Last night I went to ilie Centra! Post Office to wind three packages of diamond to Amsterdam. , "On my way back, after for**rninj these severe! thousands of pounds' wajft of diamonds', I found my pocket-book stolen. "It contained about £10,000 worth, td diamonds. I hare SenS information of Una already to Amsterdam. "When I wan in Newgate-street oasr* way to Holborn Viaduct, I suddenly fcjp: a. terrible pain at the heart, and went to take somotning, thinking it would quiets me. " , "Alt it once T had the most, terrihea heart attack you '.an imagine. My pock#t* book was in a p<*;k«t of my coat at ijyt left side near my heart, and I wanted to take it out to put it in a right-h*sd|. side pocket. '■• " I found a lot of paper.- in my right pocket, comwruently 1 could not, "get th< pocket-book in there. '• Being in such pain, 1 put it in m outside pocket, of course -vith the id«i of keeping my hand over i. till the r*hi stopped. "In the .meanwhile the pain increased, and I leaned against the wall of a hows* for a few minutes. When the pain finished I went ahead slowly, " Then I wanted to put my pocket-book in my inside pocket ajain, but it waa gone. "My stock is insured for about £5000, hut 1 can't stand the blow, as the worts will not believe me, and when you receive this 1 shall suffer no more. " . "If you can pray from time to time do what you can for my poor, unhappy wife. UJr "I shall bless you in my gr. for it Give my love to your dear wife. Adieu, dearest brother, yours, Max." P.S.—Once mote, I would like to mjU you, my dear brother, as 1 shall stand foi my judgment, this is exactly what hip, r-sned as I have written to you. "My life is insured for my wife's &ife« for £500, but what is that?"" ■?•,' Late at night the writer of the aba* asked for a glass of hot water. His land lord, however, had his suspicions, and telephoned for a brother, who went into the room and found .Max sitting alone in front of the tire. "We know what yo» want to do," said [lis brother. "Is it poison, or a revolver, or what?" Then Max produced' a bottle of morphia, and said he wanted to dissolve it in hot wal« and kili himself with it. The morphia was snatched out of his hand and thrown into the fire. He is being taken care of by his friends.