CLEOPATRA'S RING?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 11

CLEOPATRA'S RING?

RARE INTRINSIC VALUE.

STOLEN AND RETURNED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, December 4. A hermatiie stone, sa'd by its owner once to have been worn by Cleopatra, the Siren of the Nile, is a valued possession of Mme. Inga Julievna, a former Norwegian opera singer, who now resides at 1301, North Harper Avenue, in Los Angeles.

Tradition, according to Mme. Julievna, says that the Iron-ore stone bearing the engraved figure of a fly, can rightfully belong to only one living person. She says that although the stone has been lost by her three times and stolen once it always returns to her possession under uncanny circumstances.

"The stone was given to me in 1913 by the late Colonel Thomas E. Liverpool in Boston," she said. "Its value w intrinsic only. It was stolen last October 4, and came back to me in a mysterious way on Sunday, November 24, at dusk. A man telephoned three times, telling me to run downstair* and look on the bottom step of the staircase. My daughter and I looked, but did not find it. On the third call we looked and found it under the carpet as he said we would." She said that on each of the three occasions she lost the stone previously persons had returned it to her after its loss had been broadcast by radio.