Leech and Garner gold mill consulting

Attleboro, MA gold-alloy mill founded 1899; supplier to surrounding jewelry manufacturers (Swank etc.). Tom uses two theft stories: gold rings thrown into the stream behind the plant (solution: purchase the mineral rights to prosecute), and the fired-employee's-girlfriend flushing rings down the toilet to spite the company.

I used to work for a gold company down south of here in Attleboro, where they make most of the jewelry and gold jewelry in the United States. I used to get some really good stories about people trying to steal gold. The company I was working for was called Leach and Garner. They had built a plant in 1899. All the other jewelry manufacturers built up around there because Leach and Garner was the mill. They would take gold bullion and melt it. They had two continuous casters for making gold alloys, and they would continuously cast strips of the whole, and then they would make it into everything you could think of: tubes, sheet, foil, bar, wire. They sold it to the jewelry people, who'd take the wire and make it into eyeglass flex frames or whatever.