£3,000 PEARL NECKLACE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 69, 15 December 1919, Page 12

£3,000 PEARL NECKLACE

STOLEN IN FAMOUS LONDON HOTEL. There was a flntler of exciioment at luncheon time at the Carlton Hotel, London, when it became known that one of the women visitors to the restaurant .had been robl>ed of her pearl necklace worth .4:3000. The theft, which was of an audacious character, was, it is believed, committed by. n woman. The necklace belomrs to Mrs. Shears, wife of Contain AV. Shears, who lives in Cromwell Koad, South Kensington, S.W. Sho and bcr husband had luncheon in tho restaurant of the hotel, and dnrins the meal the string of the iicel.-hir"> which wa° composed of 150 graduated pearls, broke. Mrs. Shears took off tho necklace and placed it in her hand bap. Afterwards p lip w-r-pf to the women's clonk-room mid placed the hnndbaT on a table. A. minute or two Inter she wa= nmnr.cd to fi'ul (hat the handbnc had been stolen. She at, open informed en attendant nrd h n r j husband, but although inouiries were made immediaWy and a watch set nn, the doors re on" 1 p<: cfpTi fi'-i'vimr t'\e | eniitninimr '.he valuable neekInnp. nor w\» vivope •■■eon whom sn«niHo?> <y>«M ]*< pdlHi'-iiml The irenp..nl lvOief wi>s that the thief was a wntnin otherwise sb" not have p-.r'-i- | 0( 1 fo the cloak-room. Tt i« tvi.-HWc that tho th'V. who. of pii'ft have Vei- (lyp.-so'! soi»n iHic'l lv.or's—i"rl>e"= a falcr n«"f n-.fl nddr"*" W--ed a table, suv «••• ; f'rl-l! 1-r Mr' break'""? O? t 1 "!' i--tpii7 and lb" of the peek'- ; i ir , vv'. rp->li«tn? its ,1,1 i.-p.-l 'tc f.-'!"- .W'-« tho lobbcrv ns opportun'tv fcreil. • ' The TCev T. M. Ahlous, who tins recently presented to the li'-ii-ir of Vrnnkley by" V'scount Cohhnni, has h.a<' a varied experience. He was formerly ehnpln'tt of the defendant" of <l,e lentiieers of t.he Bounty aI: Norfolk Tshnd. . Kator lie worked in t;l>e of Pre- I torift as priest in clmi'KO of Piete:T.bm\', i and reijtor of Jfyidelbwif. At. .H-ai/.M----bcrg, as a member' of the school 'board; . ji>. Aldous toqk a larse part in educa-i-'orial' 'ilKilfrw' in comicclion with (he Ediical ioii' lVct:' of ''General- Smuts. More recently h" «-.is '-ector of Lochloo, in the I diucesu of Brecliiii. ,