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Show POSTAL EMPLOYEES AIDED IN ROBBERY Important Evidence Presented Begard-ing Begard-ing Theft of $625,000 Pearl Ncck-laco Ncck-laco Between Paris and London, LONDON, Sept. 12. That postal employees connivod at tho theft of tho $ti2n,000 pcavl necklace which mysteriously mysteri-ously disappeared on .hily 1(3, bolween Pans and Loudon, was established by evidence presented nt a hearing today. Whether the guilty employees bolong to the Pronch or English postofl'ice, the authorities decline to divulge at present. pres-ent. Five men wore arrestod on suspicion Septombor 2. Tliroo of them, Lockett, Silbormau and Guttworth, were taken into custody ut the British museum tube station, while the other two, Grizard and McCarthy, woro captured near Hat-tou Hat-tou Gnrden, in tho center of tho wholesale whole-sale jewelry district. On the witness stand today, a Parisian Paris-ian diamond broker named Quadrat-stein, Quadrat-stein, who assisted in laying the trnp which rcsultod in bagging the quintette of suspects, testified" that Guttworth told him it bad cost. $1 2,000 to acquire the necklace, and that among tho recipient re-cipient a of tho money were two postmen, post-men, who received i'l'OOO each. Guttworth also told him that Lockett, one of the prisoners, was tho man who, July 2, 1909. snatched a bag of jowolry valued at $500,000 from a Paris jeweler named Goldsmith in a Regent street r est n urn nt. |