The detective police of Harbin have captured a man who has been staying for some time at the Grand Hotel, and (o all appearance was a gentle-Ian with plenty of money us he paid his bills promptly" and did not hesitate to show himsel{ in all the beat restaurants and cabarets of the From what has now transpired in the city, it seems that this man is a first-class swindler, "known to the Shanghai police and also known in Europe, His method of working was to call at jewellers or pawnshops for the purpose of purchasing precious stones, and having selected certain stones he had them wrapped in paper and placed his seal_on the packet, amounts of money with him, and would return later with the money, but that he did not wish to examine the lot a seond time.
The jeweller, not noticing any thi wrong, made the packet and had it sealed, but is seems that the swindler very cleverly substituted an. exactly imitate packet, containing nothing but According to the statement published to-day in a Russian press, an Englishman who possessed a considerable quantity of Ural emeralds offered his parcel to the swindler, never doubling that he was an honest man, and going through the procedure as above stated. 'The buyer went way to bring the money, but never: returned. 'The vendor' becoming suspicious, opened the parcel and] found that it contained nothing but ordinary stones, and then immediately informed the police. The detectives very quickly arrested the alleged swindler at the Grand Hotel before had the slightest. Idea that the alice were after him, but they could find no stones, from which it is inferred that he gave them to a Russian woman who bad been staying with him at the halal as his wife, and who has already left Harbin ostensibly for Maden, but probably for some other
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