GREAT JEWEL FRAUDS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14328, 19 October 1910, Page 6

GREAT JEWEL FRAUDS.

£40,000 '"WORTH INVOLVED. Astounding jewel frauds running iLite tnauy thousands of pounds liavc ooeu perpetrated upon lcaUtng Italian li.ms x>\- a Aiessina pastel chrk named .Maruilo (states a Milan eorresi;ijtuieiKi. The Italian Pest Oi'iiie lias ntLmtul a system whereby goods can be order,d at a distance payable upon del.very. Mariitlo, who is employed in this department, tampered so clove.ly w.tu tho detachable coupons that his eol'osal misappropriation at the expense oi ins Government ha\o gone or. unsuspected for two years. Meanwhile, ho is alleged to have been keeping i'iva Messcri, a yjting woman of l!U, who had been abandoned by her lover in the United States with a baby. Mrsseri passed as an American girl under the name, of Ida. I cider, and v.as installed in on aristocratic villa in the environs of Messitit, with servants, a carriage, and every kind of luxury. As seen as ofiiiia! susoioh.ns had been aroused Martdle sent lie- forward with -i-- child ar.d n maid to Florence where she was arrested in bed in the middle of the night at a iirsl-class hotel. The police on opening the baggage disclosed to view a quantity of stolen iewels and glittering twins of the value of £SOOO. also bulky packets of banknotes. Manilla has also bean nrrested. Both rnisti-ess and maid are charged as accomplices. The frauds are said to reach a. total of £40.000.