THE GLASGOW JEWEL ROBBERY

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 63

THE GLASGOW JEWEL ROBBERY

A LESSON IN THIEVES’ SLANG.

Mr McConnell heard a very remarkable case reflecting the greatest credit on Scotland Yard, .at Oierkenwell Sessions recently. * George Grant (50), jeweller, confessed to an indictment charging him with having feloniously received jewellery, valued at <£26, stolen from Mrs Dunn, of Regent’s Park Square/i’ Glasgow, last October, while that lady was at church. ■ Two days after the burglary, DetectiveSergeant Gough, of Scotland Yard’, happened to be in/'company with DetectiveInspector Leach,, in St. Paul’s road, Canonbury. There they stopped the prisoner, who was told that he was suspected of having: jewellery-in his possession at i which he cbuld not satisfactorily, account; After some - dehly, Grant- owned up, “I have some jeweLLefy,” he> said. ‘‘To! avoid a scene in the street, if you', let me go into my house-I will.explain.’*;// / . / .: They all wont Tilth the rhou s.e/ dSfq. 34. St. Paul’a.road,. aiuFtbe prisoner produced three large/pearL pins, . surrounded, with diamonds, two 18-carat gold watch cases minus the works, several oxidised watches, five gold rings, and a number of precious stones.

Part of the articles were recognised as Mrs Dunn's, but the other goods' had not been identified. ( PRISONER’S CAREER.

Warder Cook proved that the prisoner had been sentenced to twelve months' hard labour for receiving at Glasgow in 1870, and to eight years' penal servitude for larceny and receiving a large quantity of watches stolen at Liverpool in 1889, but received by hm at a shop he then occupied at Hojcton.

Detective-Sergeant: Gough said that since Grant was released on tiekef-of-leave he had been suspected of receiving, and had been frequently seen with thieves 'n London, and no doubt he had worked with them. It had been his practice to have stolen goods sent to him in the not suspicious way of having it sent per registered letter. He was in communication with. 1 an - °A d Ulasgow convict, as was shown by a letter found on. Grant when arrested. THIEVES’ SLANG. It was a very interesting document, and ran as follows, the principal contents being written in. thieves’ slag:—■ ‘/Friend George—Have sent you <\ few, chings in R.L. (registered letter), it has two R.S. (‘red-shells’—gold watch cases without the works).Two W.K. (‘white j>*i> ties’—silver watches), small R.P.K. ' red plated kettle’—gold plated waten), two nee lickets .three ‘spark’ (diamond) rings, a pearl, prop’ (pin)), a few odds anu ends. They re -’s_ and another patty’s. *‘He is talking 1 about coming up beside you (to live near you). If he speaks about these things, throw him a deaf "an (don’t understand what he is talking about;. “He is selling off this week: He is threeparts broke, so you will know how to perform’ with him. Things are very quiet here at present, nothing but rubbish going about, so it is not worth troubling with; but things in the shop is fairly well, so we have no need to grumble.” SMART ROGUERY.

Grant, said the detective, had teen in he habit of despatching stolen property, : was thoughtfi. from London, and he had received _by registered post the proceeds* of robberies in tne provinces. So thick’y of robberies in the provinces. So quickly dM this reach the prisoner that vhe Pas able to pawn property before the police could circulate. the description o% the stolen goods._ ' \ \J.' A 1 lthe Watches fbtihd oh prison'premises had been ‘‘doctored.” One was a forgery ;on a well-known maker;:-- The e&graving of. the and the name painted on the dial wbre forgeries.. Moat of them had been/[rechrip'pned,” numbers- and ; names Jiad. been erased: or added, and tlie stones from rings bn.dM|na had been knocked but and reset ip. ether articles - yiew of estroying idbhtifibatipn'. /:/ /./ //!' ; His Lordship passed sentence bf/tjhree years’ penal servitude. A'x-