STORY OF A RING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 10

STORY OF A RING.

LONG ARM OF THE LAW. Last week there was recovered in Mei« bourne a ring, the search for which was begun by Scotland yard, London, nearly a year ago. In her complaint to Scotland Yard in 1921, a woman said she was a i widow with three children. Two or three months before a man,, who claimed to be a police inspector, made her acquaintance* and courted her. She lent him several articles and he promised to buy her a ring, On tha pretence that he* wanted to .get the right me ho borrowed . from her a "diamond cluster ring, valued at £25, The ring jwas a gift from her dead husband ana she valued; it highly. When he obtained the ring the man disappeared. Scotland Yord found that the man was an Englishman, who had enlisted with the Aa.Fi, and had sailed for Brisbane ( in September in 1921. The Brisbane police made inquiries, and when they discovered that the man had left the vests! at Melbourne the Melbourne police were asked to take up the search: The man was found at South Melbourne. Ho admitted his identity, and in explaining what he had done with the various articles, said he had sold the ring for £6; to a city jeweller. The. jeweller still had the ring, and ihs man promised* to recover it. In a day or two the much-travelled ring will begin its journey back to its owner. The widow cannot afford the cost of extradition proceedings, so no farther action will be taken. -.■ .