ODDS'N'SODS -- The great diamond fraud of 1872 (1)

(The following 3-part story is compiled from contemporary accounts in the "Engineering and Mining Journal" and the "San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin.") It was 1870. The U.S. Civil War had been over for five years and from all over the...

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