Show DIA R CANT CAN'T BI fOUND OND Jewelry Firms Gave Him Worth of Jewels Jewels Jewels Jew Jew- els to Sell but He Didn't Come BacK z w YORK TORK May lay 1 H Half a. a dozen doze wealthy firms In the tM l Ial Maiden Lane district dis are looking J. J Edward Boeck a diamond broker to give an accounting of gems of ot great value entrusted nt ted to him on memoranda and which he secured to dispose dis po pose pOe of to to alleged w wealthy clients client The 1 e exact value of Jev elry s so so secured by Boeck Is not d definitely y known because of ot the tle e unwillingness n I ss of sore some of the firms firma firmato l ed f tt 1 to d discuss the transaction a fl at t this time but estimates In the Jewelry establishments establishments establish establish- ments menta place their value alue at st from to Boeck had office room at 10 Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way but had not been seen for over a week He lIe lived In ii splendid style at an town up-town club but inquiries Inquiries' showed that he had absented himself from his rooms for l some d days Some Borne of t the firms w which entrusted r d him r 1 with tg the valuables s sw have i if called le the attention of f the grand jury to f the leal matter al t tai ai arid and nn that l body is ia investigating I Ithe the case Boeck who Is a a. big big- handsome man was very successful In selling gems according according ac ac- ac cording to the tM stories told In the Jewelry district lI He made many man big and pr profitable ble sales gained the confidence and patronage pat of oC wealthy Y persons and for that cf J yar ar reason found u no difficulty y in securing u Jewels of ot value valMe on simple memoranda II He lie Is married hIs IS wife wite living tving n near ar Ta- Ta maqua maua Pa Fa Boeck Is said eald to be the son Ion of ot a a. Polish nobleman who ho was banished from his country because he refused to recognize Russian rule When a a. young man man Boeck went to the Far East and lived for tor years In Shanghai He returned to this country country country coun coun- try at the opening of ot the St. St Louis exposition expo expo- In the suite It Is said of Prince Pu win Lun confidential secretary of ot the Emperor of ot China and representative of ot the Imperial Chinese Government In charge of the Imperial exhibits at t t the exposition e. At the close of the fair he remained In th the United States and about six months ago he ha went Into the Jewelry bus Iness incas and was as so 80 successful ful that he was soon toon In a position to command from the diamond dealers their cost prices and offer to take their goods at cost and split the profits of retail sale with them J. J p P. P Morgan and United States Senator Sena Sena- tor tar Clark are among th those o Wt are said to have hae made large purchases of Jewelry through Boeck Boeck Is about 38 51 years old a T was last heard from in Philadelphia his birthplace He is I. said to have lived In Pittsburg for a time |