Ad blocker detected: Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors. Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker on our website.
Organized Gang of Window Smashers Operating in Montreal, Can.
Montreal, Can., Nov. 8.—Jewelry robberies have been numerous recently, indicating that a well organized gang of thieves are operating systematically, using the familiar process of breaking the windows and making away with such valuables as can be secured through the aperture.
On the morning of Nov. 6 thieves made an attempt to cut with a diamond the window of the store of Henry Scott, 479 St. Catherine St. Failing in this they broke the glass with a brick. Mr. Scott was awakened by the crash of the glass, but before he could interfere the robbers had secured jewelry valued at about $600 and made their escape.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th November 1917
Adanac Products, Ltd., of Toronto, has been incorporated with an authorized capital of $300,000 to carry on business as manufacturing wholesale and retail silversmiths and jewelers and take over the assets of the Jewelry Specialty Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The provisional directors include Wilfrid W. Parry, Edith E. Garbutt and Horace B. Proudlove.
W. T. A. Proctor, traveling representative of Austin & Co., Toronto, Ont., narnowly escaped being burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Queen's Hotel, Tillsonburg, Ont., on Wednesday morning, when three lives were lost. He was nearly suffocated by smoke before he succeeded in finding his way out by a back stairway.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 27th May 1908
The Fulton Jewel Manufacturing Company. Ltd., have opened up in more commodious quarters at 40 Colborne street, Toronto. The new firm is composed of R. H. Pratt, president; A. R. Dewdney, vice-president; A. H. Dewdney. secretary-treasurer; E. W. Gilmore, manager, manufacturers and importers of rings, jewelry, silver novelties, purses, ebony goods, etc;
Sparks Street, later, 217, Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario
Harry G. Langford, whose place of business on Sparks St., Ottawa, was destroyed by fire some time ago, has opened up a jewelry store at 217 Bank St., Ottawa.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 28th May 1919
H. G. Langford, Ltd., Ottawa, Ont, has been incorporated to carry on the business of manufacturing jewelers and silversmiths with an authorized capital of $50,000, by Harry G. Langford, Emma Langford, Annie Hunt, Sydney B. Wallace, and Anson H. Pratt.
This morning an old citizen, James Johnson, jeweller, died quite suddenly. He had been ailing for some days, but no serious results were anticipated. He was a prominent Methodist.
Source: The Toronto Daily Mail - 23rd Janurary 1882
At a late hour on Thursday night, Mr. James Grant, watchmaker and jeweller, Wellington Street, was found dead in the yard in the rear of his premises. It appears that after closing up his shop for the night he went to the yard, where remaining a somewhat long time, one of his family went in search and found him lying on his back quite dead. The gentleman up to the hour of his death, was apparently in the enjoyment of good health. An inquest was held yesterday morning on the body by the Coroner, and a verdict of 'death from disease of the heart returned.'
STEALING A WATCH - Yesterday, at the Police Court, John P. Charles, jeweller, was brought up and charged with stealing a gold watch of the value of $50, belonging to George McNamee, tobacconist, which had been left at Charles' store to be repaired. Bail was accepted and the case remanded.
Source: The Montreal Daily Witness - 22nd August 1871
The firm of Windeler & Lawledge, manufacturing jewelers, of Ottawa, Ont., has been dissolved, L. G. Lawledge becoming a member of the firm of Gibson & Whitcomb, manufacturing jewelers, which has been reorganized under the style of Gibson, Lawledge & Whitcomb, Ltd.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th May 1920
Gibson Lawledge, Whitcomb, Ltd., manufacturing jewelers, of Ottawa, have assigned to Alexander McKechnie.
A large libel suit has been commenced at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. Frank S. Taggart, the jeweler, in a writ recently issued, asks to be awarded the sum of $20,000 as damages for alleged libel by Charles Stark and The Charles Stark Co. (Limited). Mr. Taggart formerly managed the Stark company, and has recently set up business for himself in King St. W., and the trouble has arisen out of his old connection with the defendant company.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 24th February 1892
The conspiracy case in which M. C. Ellis, Walter Barr and F. H. Lee were charged with unlawfully limiting the facilities for transporting, producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing and dealing in watch cases and watch movements, on the complaint of Frank S. Taggart, jeweler, Toronto, seems to hang fire. It was brought up in the police court again last week. Another magistrate deemed it advisable to send the matter to a higher court, and as a consequence the issue will be tried at the next criminal assizes.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 1st June 1892
Alfred Dixon, of Frank S. Taggart & Co., Toronto, was married Wednesday last to Miss Frances L. Frankland.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 2nd November 1892
The case of the Ontario Bank against Frank S. Taggart came up for a lengthy hearing at the Assize Court, Toronto, last week, and as it promised to be of several days more duration, Judge Falconbridge laid it over until next week. The claim is for $2,500 on a promissory note, dated Sept. 3, 1891, made by Frank S. Taggart.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 22nd November 1893
The Dueber Watch Case Mfg. Co.'s Suit Against the Defunct F. S. Taggart Co.
Toronto, Can., Jan. 21.—The Dueber Watch Case Mfg. Co., Canton, O., brought an action for $18,000 against the defunct F. S. Taggart Co., jewelers, of this city, consisting of Frank S. Taggart and Charles Campbell. The debt was for watches supplied to the Taggart company, but when that concern failed the Dueber Co. bought back the stock from assignee Clarkson. who was entrusted with the winding up of the insolvent company. On this ground the present action of the Dueber Co. was dismissed by Justice McMahon. The plaintiffs have taken an appeal from his judgment to the Court of Appeals.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 25th January 1899
Frank S. Taggart, formerly in business as a jeweler in Toronto, whose failure some American houses have cause to remember, now a mining speculator in Vancouver, B. C, has sued the 'Mining Record', of that city, and its editor, H. M. Lamb, for libel, claiming $10,000 damages. The offending paper reprinted from the London 'Critic' an article reflecting on Taggart with depreciatory comments of its own.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 1st March 1899
Henri Pinault, jeweler, of Hull, Que., accused of buying stolen goods, was acquitted of the charge on Monday, May 4. Samuel Betts, a convict in the Kingston Penitentiary, who had sold the goods to Pinault, testified that Pinault had inquired of him as to where the jewelry came from and that he (Betts), told him he made his living by selling old gold. Magistrate Goyette in dismissing Pinault warned him to be more careful in future in making purchases.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 13th May 1908
The Dominion Rolled Plate Co., Montreal have a fine exhibit of rolled plate chains at the Toronto Exhibition. The company are making preparations to show their goods at the Exhibition in Montreal, which opened last week. Louis Davis, H. K. Danford and G. R. Joseph, of the Dominion Rolled Plate Co., Montreal, have been in Toronto.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 23rd September 1891
The Dominion Rolled Plate Co., Montreal, have gone into liquidation at the instance of Chas. Bolt. A. W. Stevenson has been appointed provisional liquidator and a meeting of creditors will be held Feb. 20. This step was rendered necessary, it is understood, as a result of the several heavy failures in the jewelry trade in this district recently.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 17th February 1897
