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Show uu HUGE ROBBERY STORY PROBED i 1 eiLIt, 4 rt t C (. .. I viiivvvjrv, vul . 1 o . il a. .m o 3 e 1 'New York Jewelry salesman, who told I he police Tuesday night that he had 'been robbed of $300,000 worth of un-jset un-jset diamonds, was questioned again j ;today at the detective bureau, where he was held until morning. while police Investigated his wtory Moser sold he was loaving the Con-.gress Con-.gress hotel on Michigan boulevard I With Charles J. Morris, representative ot the- New York Life Insurance company, com-pany, when three bandits Jumped tin the running board of Morris' automo-j bile making Morris give up the wheel I which was taken by one of the rob-bcrs. rob-bcrs. whose own car. waiting across .the street and driven by a fourth ban-I dlt, followed. Outside the downtown district ttie jbandlts stopped. Moser said, and took the pouch containing the diamonds declaring they had followed him from! St. louls to obtain the stones. The ' 1 1 . 1 I 1 f r f hr.n thu lrniM,.n ulf .-.a Ion Morris' car, locked it, took tho key I ,and drove away In another car, according ac-cording to Moser. IA0OKIXG FOR WOMAN, j After a dinner with Morris and sev-I jeral other diamond salesmen. Moser Imet a woman at the Blackstone hotel.) (The police were looking for the woman' today. Moser said he Intended to leave last; Tuesday night for Cincinnati, and accepted ac-cepted Morris' offer of a ride to tho railroad station. They wero starting for tho station, he said, when the I bandits Jumped Into the car Morrtu u'h, !.',., n(,iiinj , detective bureau, substantiated Moser s: I story' of the robbery, it Is eald. j Moser said he Uvea at 502 West Ono Hundred Ninetieth street New;. York, and represents three New York1 Jewelry firms Jacob Pchoen. 81 ' ;.Muiden lane; Iul8 T hltelaw, Nassau street, and Samuel Ienkowsky I A Son. 71 Nassau street ' I Moser said he had about 2S0 unset,: diamonds, ranging ln size from one to I .two karats The bandits, he declared, mado no attempt to search him or . i Morris for money or personal Jjewelry. j Hl'(iK LOSS REPORTED. "'hi if .if Detectives Hughes was I summoned from his home Immediately i after Moser had made his report toj the police, officials of the Plnkerton.'! Detective agency, representing the company in which the diamonds were Insured, were called also The total loss ln robberies of diamond dia-mond brokers and salesmen in Chicago during the last two years amounts to more than $2,000,000. accordding to police reports More than $1 000 000 (Insurance companies whose operatives 'are still Investigating. It wan said VALUATION- REDUCED. NEW YORK, Oct. IS. Max Moser 1 New York Jewel salesman reported I robbed Tuesday night in Chicago, carried car-ried unset diamonds valued bv the ,'hree firms represented here at about IjlSO.OOO, OO |