THE STOLEN CARUSO JEWELS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17651, 11 December 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE STOLEN CARUSO JEWELS.

A man has been arrested in connection with'the recent robbery of jewellery from the summer residence of Signor Caruso. Two--women known to the New York public as the Poillon sisters visited the offices of the company with * which Signor Caruso had his wife's jewels insured and told the officials that they were in communication with & man who, they believed, was concerned in the robbery. The "police were notified and dictagraphs were installed in . the women's-fiat, and the man was invited to call on them. One instrument was hidden behind tapestry and another under a bed with wires leading to the roof, where detectives and shorthand writers were hidden. . The man, who gave , the name, of Harry C Toback, called at the hour fixed. Accordin to the police'the man offered to sell the sisters £9000 worth of Signor Caruso's diamonds for £6000. He is said to have suggested that the monev should be paid in cash at, an hotel in "Baltimore where the .stones were hidden. The women assented and further agreed to accompany him to Baltimore, but as he left the f lit he was arrested. He denied '-aire con. Jittcfa»it>?vrtit.tb ft .JewcMbeft t , * ,