RECLUSE'S FORTUNE
The dingy hotel room occupied for 25 years by Mrs. Ida E. Wood/a 03-years-±lßo,ooo to searchers employed by the ? £ k the Potiti°n of her relatives (says the "Daily Mail"). The fortune 1™ Je7 els' , a l D(i includes a magnificent diamond necklace so long that it hangs to the waiat. It ends *„ a h di |. mond pendant. It was .worn by the old womaa when, as the reigning toast of New _orJt, she danced -with King Edward when he was Princo of Wales. ■Jewels of almost incalculable value 7ZI d'| covered,g';ttering between the folds of rare old laces, i v the billows of rich old costumes, and even behind -he.radiators, in the hotel-room The **"«** ?****y to-day sewing some :f, k he t T w 707 ef S"°ld BOWIIS> hold«g the silk two inches from her eves. Sheresolutely refuses to disclose the hid->ng-pla, Ie of diamonds which the searchers of her 40 trunks have failed to discover. Though adjudged mentally incompetent, her invariable reply to all inquiries about her still-concealed treasures is: "Since when has old age become a crime?"
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 16
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181RECLUSE'S FORTUNE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 16
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