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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rene_R, post: 9482365, member: 81814&quot;]Your post contains some very interesting things to consider. Thank you!</p><p><br /></p><p>As a side note, the thief used a different way to carry the stones, possibly more unconventional. When he was arrested (on a ship in the middle of the Irish Sea), the police initially couldn&#039;t find any of the jewellery. He was brought back to Liverpool, where he was thoroughly searched. The officer later said:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>I commenced a more strict search of his person. I found on him this handkerchief</i> [points at handkerchief]<i>, containing a great portion of the missing diamonds, tied round his waist in the manner of a belt, secured firmly by a string passed round his body, between and round both his legs. Prisoner at the moment said. “Now, you&#039;ve got it, you&#039;ve got all.”</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I am interested in the Jewish connection you all mentioned for a particular reason. The thief later went on to become something of a national hero in Australia. Starting in the 1950s, the idea emerged that he had been Jewish. That&#039;s not true (he was a Lutheran Christian), but the question remains where the idea came from. He may have spoken Hebrew (the thief knew a lot of languages), which could be one explanation. Another would be if his connection to the Jewish diamond merchants back in England had been known. The story of the diamond robbery did reach Australia in the 1890s. There is no proof that the connection to their &quot;hero&quot; was ever made, but if it had been made in the 1950s, that may explain it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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