THE MISSING NECKLACE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 September 1913, Page 5

THE MISSING NECKLACE.

STORY OF ITS RECOVERY. "BY. CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRiaHT. PARIS,' Sept. 6. The newspaper Le Matin relates that Price, representing the underwriters, was approached by two Frenchmen, jasking if he would give the £10,000 re*vard if the necklace was restored. The frenchmen said they knew where the jewels were, but were unable to purchase them themselves. Price found a jeweller willing to play the part of intermediary. He was instructed to pur«hase the central pearl and the third on the left, which is unique. He gave him marked French banknotes, and the disguised jeweller reached London and got into communication with the Frenchmen, who took him on a strange trip to the slums, detectives shadowing them throughout. Finally, the jeweller refused to go further, and arranged that the gang should meet him at his liotel with the necklace next day. The thieves arrived singly, their hands in their revolver pockets, and - producedthe necklace of 61 pearls intact. Only the diamond catch was missing. They asked £50,000 for the necklace, and the jeweller finally secured two pearls for £8000, promising £32,000 next day for the rest. Instead, the men were arrested. The ■; Matin states that sugar was substituted for the pearls while en route -to London, with the complicity of postal officials, who can be arrested directly an accomplice is caught.