THE HOPE DIAMOND
A FATAL JEWEL. BOSTON. November 20. The curse of the famous Hope diamond appears to have fallen upon May Yohe, tho noted American artless and singer, whoso third husband is Captain Jan Smuts, a cousin of General Smuts, tho former Prime Minister of South Africa. Police who were called to Captain Smuts's home found him bleeding from a bullet wound. A note in his handwriting read: “ I intend to shoot myself because I have been unkind to my wife.” Captain Smuts may recover. [May Tone, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1869, had as her first husband Lord Francis Hope, who owned one or the most superb colored diamonds at present known —a sapphire ‘blue brilliant, weighing 44 3-8 carats, and valued at between £20,000 and £30,000. It is believed to have been out from tho largo blue, diamond, weighing in the rough 112| carats, winch was once owned by Louis XIV., and which disappeared at the beginning of the French devolution. The Hope diamond is said to bring bad luck to the owner.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 4
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