STOLEN JEWELS

Southland Times, Issue 19173, 18 February 1924, Page 5

STOLEN JEWELS

UNIQUE METHOD OF RECOVERY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, February 15. (Received February 17, 7.5 pun.) The police are recovering a great quantity of stolen jewels by method and scale unique in the annals of crime. Mrs Schoelkoph, the wife of a Buffalo brewer, attended a swell New Year ball in 1922, wearing jewels valued at £50,000. Later the jewels were stolen. The police soon afterwards arrested Alfred Mahan, a New York jeweller, who was.the keeper of a fine store, but were unable to prove anything against him. Mahan finally proposed that if liberty were given him he might do something when assured that the police were not following him Mahan disappears for a few days at a time and alwys returns with some part of the lady’s baubles. First he found £26,000 in a fruit jar. Yesterday he received the third batch, almost completing the total recovery of the jewels. NEW YORK, February 16. (Received February 18, 1 a.m.) A telegram from Los Angeles states that the fact that diamonds, Liberty bonds, watches and jewellery valued at £200,000 stolen from the Provident Loan Association on February 9, also £20,000 cash and cheques by a hold-up trio, was announced to-day when a reward of £5OO was offered for the return of the property. The list published consists of 400 articles, mostly diamonds.