Show P. PAWNBROKERS ItS Now Non that the fire Herald and antl the Trib Trib- Tribune Tribune une unc seem to have passed out out-of out of the convulsion following the recovery of or diamonds from a a pawnshop let us gently genty call cal to the attention of or the police po po- 0 lice Ice department that a pat pawnbroker pa has not nol man many rights in its such a case as that latel lately under discussion All Al the presumption Is against him when hen henhe he buys diamonds o of n a domestic And Antl when any one comes to him hm with diamonds to sell sel or which she offers alters as a pledge for a loan the obligation of C Inquiry is upon him If I he icy takes goods an and no questions asked he does floes It I n wholly at his own risk And the books tt were aforetime full ful of or ca sires cases es tt where hero the doctrine was cans established that pawnbrokers bou bought ht at their peril peri More recently the pt principle has been accepted and is no longer challenged challenged challenged chal chal- b by people who nho know Stolen property ma may ah a always s 's be he re recovered recovered re- re covered and the rightful owner ma may take it Jt 1 without regard to the pretense pretence e of an Innocent purchaser He lie who buys bd's a horse knows of or the doctrine of caveat Let Let Let the bu buyer el be be- ware Pawnbrokers know It too And there Is la no good reason why a policeman should advise tho rho ott owner ner o of or property ty which has been Icen stolen and antl recovered that she has hag choice of re- re her property or paying the amount of or the loan made mate by bythe the patt pawnbroker pawn pawn- n- n broker We e certainly do not want to awak awal- awalen awaken en the now note dormant qu qualities of or this case caso We Ve do o not want vain tho rho Tribune and antl the Herald ld Iel-ld ald to again exterminate each other But Bu for Cor the soothing of or the two of them we take lake the liberty to say sy that neither quite gutty seemed to understand what it ll was all al about The owner onner Is subjected to lo no choice bettt between be he- tween een replevin and antl repayment of or the pawnbrokers pawnbroker's loan If H the UI diamonds are In the hands of or tho rho police police and ant and I that Is la where thc they probably should be until the thc caso case Is tried tried there there Is oni only ono thing thinE for the police pollee department to do to In lu the end ent and ant that that Is s surrender surrender sur sur- r render nd r them to the ott owners owner No one ont wi dispute tte title From whom shall they be Ie Certainly not from Crom the police polee 1 rom From the pawnbroker er That is hardly a tenable ground From the accused girl Neither of these thee has any title tile and it I t was injudicious injudicious lc- lc ious lous for the chief of or police pollee to have advised the women who ott own n the gems that the they might either replevin the rho goods or 01 return the loan to the patt pawn pawn- n- n broker about about a like sum In each each case That was ha bad Neither the pawnbroker er the police pollee polee nor the thief has las an any right to the jewels an and a n writ of or replevin should not have been suggested |