Show A CLEVER ROBBERY CIJNTIIAI office f J detective bit off Ibo Z 1 end of a big black cigar as he sut alone al-one i of the email r r r 1 table In nn uptown up-town cafe n few evening ago nnd as he struck a I match 10 Unite the I weed he raid A prolPMlonal diamond thief n about as sharp si they make > m lie doe nt hold people up on the street and It lint often that he commit burglary burg-lary to get Ihe lIam lie may meek them but that about aa far as hIt h-It > M In the way of breaking the law A short time otter exIn weU > r Ilyrne rwriwnlm Ihe detective burMa bu-rMa I bid hart of a rue which WM the elevvrwt piece of work no the part at a diamond thief I ever heard of OlIO morning when I reported at headqiMrlin the chief Mtd hut n retired re-tired bntlRMM man who lived on one of the era it reels near Fifth mrmiw wanted him lo Ifflll up one of bill mOIl In InrMflRaln Into the bias 01 II valuable diamond The chief assigned me lo the Job Md In half an hour I wu at the bout boutThJi Theta Is I the story M the mm nave It la me He was a widower l and among his decwtwcl l wife Jewel wii a lair of lire diamond wrrlims Having no use for Ibm he bad tried to ell them but Ihe diamond ilmlurs would not Eire him more than half their cost no he nil tcrllted them The neil day n Ilne street broker whose name he mentioned and whom I know well called on him unit looked Nt the Hones lie took quite A fancy In them lull said he only wanted one of them which be Intendixl to have 11 as n meant pin The owner flood n price niton < something like twelve him deal dollar The broker did not object 10 the price but wanted In have Ibo tone pmed I upon by n Jeweler saying say-ing he would Mild n chock for It If mho report wan favorable lie look the stone away with him The day following lime broker called noon the owner of the diamond and Informed In-formed him tint Im had been robbed of the Hone He had placed It In his safe al the office the night before and when he went to get It the noil morning In IrOllll1 lo submit It to a Maiden lane diamond dealer for hli opinion ax to Its value bo found It had disappeared lie was positive that he had placed It In his mote and Ihe only permit bolides lilmMlf who knew the combination was time ten who was west nt the lime Ito was Milling lo i > ay the owner for Iho diamond In CAM It was not found but thoujht U best lo let him know of Ibo robbery The broker said tbst ho woo ALLLJi 1 s 1 s j + Atl xy iiu Birr TO wouic TO TIND Till OOMIIINATION ohlUed 1 III go to lAndnn on Maturity steamer nnd bo requwitcd owner of the diamond to have n detective look the matter up and he would pay all ei pfnic It the detective would call nl hire I hi-re ho would give him what Information Informa-tion be hid but lie didnt wish any of tlia clerks to know shout limo miller as ho didnt want them to feel under suspicion As the owner had told mo that the stones Hi the two oarrlng were almost similar I asked him 10 let me ice the remaining one so I might bo nblii lo Identify other stone In caw I should stumble upon It it any of Iho pawnshop pawn-shop The owner went to n small safn III tho corner of the room and opened It Iulllng out ono of the drawers hu came I toward me at the lamo time looking for the diamond He was unable to I find II and thinking be might htvo plsced It In another drawer he ex nmlned that also but the diamond wu nowhere to be found Ho wns posltha ho had placed It In one of the drawers of time sate after delivering the other diamond the broker and he was the only person familiar with the combination combina-tion Hire were apparently two diamond robborle each happening nbout the sumo time the purpose of the thief Intuit In-tuit to obtain poMowton of the ialr of earrings I made the usual I examination pall Inquiries about the eervnuls In I Iho i bl hails and then went dawn I IOn uf flee of the 1lno beet broker Tho large t ante to which the clerks hail arrest I wai nut Interested In and 111I1kl pM d upon It ns lielnR In n proper t position In limo private office of Ibo broker wee another and much smaller safe which stood a little distance away from a window that looked upon tho street This safe woe no illualed that v It could easily le seen by passershy and as there were no shades to the window win-dow U 11 ai not likely that the oafs hac been tampered with during Ibo night since It wai In plain view of tho tollc and private watchmen who pawed the building every few minutes I was not able to see tho broke when I called on the following day and did not visit the offlea again uall the next week when I woe told he hind sailed for Europe The pawnshops were searched ama am-a report of Ibo case w t 4it to other cities but no elite to the 1lnx ula nionds was oblniel All efforts L dueover the thief or to wertiln the method by which the robberies had been committed were without result and t woo beginning to fear that It woos case that could near he cleared up when one evening the telephone bell rang and I was wanted The person at the other end of the phone was the owner of the diamond who wl h 1 IM lo meet him In the lobby of bo I Mttropolltia opera hoit as man 101 could get here I went up II one and on entering the loBby the tint person I I caught dghl of was Ihe owner of the diamonds walking nervously up and down and evidently In in Melted condition of mind Hi pled me while I was a dOH11 ince away and with A smile of recognition beckoned me tn approach him Tte found the diamond did the thief al lies Mine time he Mid e clt wily Thal good Mid I wher ore they IIMrCom Come with mil and Ill how you lie led the way down the elate on one side of the building until III nearly reached the orehrsira Handing IM his peril ftlosni 1 he Mill In the Hghlh row near the renter ren-ter alt a lout blonde woman wnr Inl A pair of large diamond earrings Those an the earring that formerly belonged to my wit and the man hoI ho-I s tilktns with the woman la I the fine street broker who II I uptoed llo be In ion rope I turned the RH M toward the eotmte nod cave n careful look at the people be bad pointed outline out-line I street broker cold I lowering lower-ing th glMM That no more the line oiled broker than t am That 11 Hut recotnli hint potlllvely no the man who railed on me and presented hits card M lime broker Oh1 Mid I that the way you obtained your Introduction lo the Ilne street broker In I It give you his sal did lieT Will I am not surprised nt that man then preventing somebody else 1 card It there ass anything to be made out of It That fellow In I onu 011 1 he sharpest confidence men of fill I 0110 and bin I he I the first t know of his being In Now York And nn for the woman wllh him ahna a notorious Tenderloin chancier who baa gotten ILo better of more than one iiioneybtiK In Ibis town If that man II I your 1lno street broker you can bo pretty lure how I earrings the has on nro your property I gave the tip lo ono of our men whom I found In limo lobby nnd na wo Idnt cure lo make n itccnn during lime performance we walled until It wan over and then gathered the pair In and look thAi down lo headquarters It 1 W easy enough to hold the con dcnro man but It was hard lo get the oman to give up tIme diamonds flue finally consented to surrender them under protest but of course she never naile any moro fund about It and the owner kept poixesilon of them attl hatconmdnoaemaohdldiniPItsen 1 bout two year ago and I timer learn 0d I the solution of the mystery of his getting both of the diamonds until new I n-ew months ago when Ibo dory came out I ITII The Impersonation of n wellknown broker by preventing n card with the irokeri name on It wa a simple deice de-ice to get possession of one of Ibo dlv mind The thief bad learned of Ilia broker Intention to Mil I for Ituropo Inn In-n few day and this act was made use of lo keep that part of the transaction III n for until the brokers return to New York When the confidence man called upon Ibo owner of the diamonds tn announce an-nounce the supposed robbery of the lay before hn had planned to secure possession of the other stone for the of eged purpose of having n diamond ex port make n car < fill inscription of IIII icing I nlnuxt nn exact duplicate In o1or weight and ibapo and by Ibis meant ho missing diamond could be Identified by any pawnbroker or diamond dealer 10 whom II might bo ottered The owner of the diamonds wee at luncheon In limo dining room below when tho confidence man called and Ibo servant was directed lo show the ilsllor Into the library U was In Ills room where lima owner hnd met the supposed broker on his previous visit and It was hero that the cafe containing the diamond Hood The confidence man had carefully watched limo opening of Ibo cafe the day before and ho had noted that It woo worked by n simple combination When the servant disappeared frunt tho library the thief glanced around and seeing that ho would be with I scred end could roadlly hear any np pronrhlUR footstep be set to work to llnd time combination It wan only five minutes after ho had been left alone before be-fore the owner entered the rooom mu round his visitor apparently highly agl latnd over the mysterious disappear ann of Iho diamond ho tint taken away with him the day before be-fore and leaving the owner In Icnor anco of the fact that while ho was quietly rating his luncheon In the roan below Ibo combination of Ibo cafe hall been discovered and limo other sti < < i e nl 11 t was at that moment In the vst pocket of the man who stood before him or course the owner never saw the tble afterward until ho accidentally bin as have related It Is I not hard to Iota ones sell III I New York but thin thief took Ibo chance of meeting the owner of the diamonds In tho crowd at Ibo opera and lost |