morbiusandneo
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- Jun 16, 2007
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Big Jim Colosimo "treasure"??
"Outside of Crown Point,IN" is the purported cache of diamonds from a 1920's gangster. Wish i could locate the original "lead" regarding this story. Can't locate a local story printed source about this. So, it just may be a rumor someone put into a treasure magazine many years ago, and this simply got repeated as factual, entering treasure leads type publications with no basis in fact....I used to live in Chesterton, Indiana and spent a lot of time on this lead, only chasing "ghosts". Some called him "Diamond Jim", but these were just what I would call secondary leads with no references to legitimate newspaper sources. It was a big waste of time in the ned, for me. My only hope was that if I did find some proof of the validity of the story, I was hanging that hope on this cache being hidden in a metal box. What are the odds? (....probably at least 5-1 against it even being in a metal box!!)How else do you locate diamonds hidden in a silk bag, or a wooden jewelry box? You don't, that's how. So, in the end this was a lesson for me, and hope anyone trying to find this take my experience to heart. steven.
"Outside of Crown Point,IN" is the purported cache of diamonds from a 1920's gangster. Wish i could locate the original "lead" regarding this story. Can't locate a local story printed source about this. So, it just may be a rumor someone put into a treasure magazine many years ago, and this simply got repeated as factual, entering treasure leads type publications with no basis in fact....I used to live in Chesterton, Indiana and spent a lot of time on this lead, only chasing "ghosts". Some called him "Diamond Jim", but these were just what I would call secondary leads with no references to legitimate newspaper sources. It was a big waste of time in the ned, for me. My only hope was that if I did find some proof of the validity of the story, I was hanging that hope on this cache being hidden in a metal box. What are the odds? (....probably at least 5-1 against it even being in a metal box!!)How else do you locate diamonds hidden in a silk bag, or a wooden jewelry box? You don't, that's how. So, in the end this was a lesson for me, and hope anyone trying to find this take my experience to heart. steven.
