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Show New Yolk. July 3. The Sit it has a I'il tsburg disp.iic.i which says that Miss Came lJi.ll.thc 19 year -old niece of Levi Had Duff, a well Known Putsbui if allot ney.was atrasleil upon the stieeis i l tn.s city vesteiday lor sieahn over $2,000 t rth of diiuonds liom se.'eral ol l'ltis-uuiii's l'ltis-uuiii's leading jetvleis williiu liie past lotty-eiglit liuiiis When taken lo liie 'station House she so impressed Inspector McAIeer that he altervvaid said she"was the boldest llieil j evei came m contact with. She stood up and with a gesture o c. ntempt, exc'n m-d: 'How daie vou.snf older in v airest in tins lnaiiner, what have 1 done? I'll make you pay dearly lor this. Levi Hud Dull is my uncle ami 1 am a lady, sn, not a ciuniual," With her was arnssted John C Cameron, Camer-on, a web known youiiif man, who is tieasuier of the Melroplilan l'lShiuijfdub. Investijratiou revealed that .Miss Dull I and Mi Cameron weie to be married last niijiu. Cameron was short on his ac- i counts, and furthemiofeylriif vetilyl money for wedding expeitW ,tm fw JET duij trip. Inspector McAIeer said last niffht that after much persuasion and several hours continuous tftbit he succeeded in getting the young ivunwnFi version ol the story. She de.iiedevtrythinf thtil thtidetectives produced pawn tickets showing wheie she had pawned the dimotids. Then she faiuted. After she recovered she sak5 Cameron had taken out a hcese yesterday to be martied last 11 itf lit ; that she told Cameron She would laiie Ihe money, and she had takeir this method of stealing to do is, tnat was all. Later her 111. cle apeared and had her released on Irs bail lor $2,-00 $2,-00 friends also went bail for Comeronfor J,,5oo and both depaited under bond, to appear in conn next Tnuisday. There has never bf en anything against Cameron and he is enphalic iu h.s sia lenient le-nient that he is inn .cent of any cnniic aud also defends Miss Duff, 'ihe police think that she is more to blame than he and that sne has deceived him. Last nigh they weie married at the home oi Mr Cameron aud drove away iu a closed carriage The dimonds which the youiijj woman appro 1; a ed o nsis.ed of four stouts of speed va ue. Thev wire taken from the BrUiS establishment, the stores tfShae-fer tfShae-fer and. Lloyd and D L Kee.l & Co Tlie inwit appearance of Miss Duff 'disarmed suspicion and gave her sccess. Her methods met-hods Weie those ol the's'nop litter. She succeeded in taking 11 ; '.lie diamonds Irom the tray when in.- clerks attention was momenta! ly attiacted elsewhere. The thf It was d coveied at the Hiisgs eitablnhnierrt immediately upon her d e-larture e-larture and her desciipt on was limned lately given t ) the detectives, who mat e tne arr. st up n the ,'trect. At the pawn sho, c Miss Daff s d U at a nioitgage was ahot t being loreclosed on her h u,ai d il, by pawning her jewelry, slie could secure se-cure money 10 pieveut it. sue proposed doing so rather than selling anything. She laised about 750 on th stones. At the various 5t res she gave different uamef.as she also did at the pawn shops it is hinted that her family objected to the imuiiage. |