GEM IN SCRAPBOX

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 1 September 1923, Page 7

GEM IN SCRAPBOX

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LONDON, Aug. 6. Diogenes could put away his lantern it’ ho -were in London to-day. for the honest man he was looking tor has been discovered. Lady Galway, wile of Sir Henry Galway, formerly Governor ol Western Australia, paid a visit to hoi* jewe'ler on Monday ,aiul took away with lie ra huge yellow diamond. It was once tho property of Napoleon L, and is valued at £IOOO. When she reached home, she searched in her dress, where she had hidden he. gem for safer carriage. To her herro it was gone. Only the tissue paper was left. Naturally a huo and cry resulted. Pesters wore posted up._ offering £no reward to anybody finding the stone. Even if it. were not stolen, there was a great risk that the finder might mistr.lto it for a. worthless hit of yellow glass, and throw it away. ° This, in fact, very nearly happened. *t was a. stableman in tho neighbourhood who picked up the diamond. He thought it was of no value, and tossed carelessly into a. box where ho kept his bits, buckles, and scraps of leather. Lucidly one of the posters eventually caught his eye. and he returned the diamond to its anxious owners.