STOLEN PEARL NECKLACE.
CONVICT'S OFFER.
REVEAL HIDING PLACE FOR
£5000,
(Heceivcd 0.30 a.m.)
LONDON, January 1
The police and Lloyd's underwriters are debating whether they will offer £5000 reward to a convict for revealing the hiding place of a pearl necklace worth £40,000, which was stolen from Mrs. Mango, wife of a Greek shipping magnate, on New Year's night, 1921.
A notorious forger named Durton, who is serving seven years' penal servitude at Parkhurst prison, offers to reveal the hiding place of the pearls if £5000 is deposited to his credit at a London bank. The underwriters have already paid £38,140, for which the necklace was insured. Durton, who is an educated man of good presence, claims to have been present at the Savoy Hotel when the necklace was stolen.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2 January 1924, Page 5
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