Knowing that diamonds are an investor’s best friend, two prospecting cousins, Philip Arnold and John Slack, pulled off a sparkling con game and never looked back. In late November 1870 two grizzled, weather-beaten prospectors visited San Francisco financier George D. Roberts, whose own fortune had started in 1850 when he struck gold while working as …
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