GEM IN SCRAPBOX.
NAPOLEON'S DIAMOND
PICKED UP BY STABLEMAN
LONDON, August 6.—Diogenes could put away his lantern if he were in London to-day, for the honest man he was looking for has been discovered. Lady Galway, wife of Sir Henry Galway, formerly Governor of Western Australia, paid a visit to her jeweller on Monday, and took away with her a huge kellow diamond. It was once the property of Napoleon 1., and is valued at £IOOO. When she reached homo, she searched in her dress, where she had hidden the gem for safer carriage. To her horror it was gone. Only tho tissue paper was left.
Naturally a hue and cry resulted. Posters were posted up, offering £SO reward to anybody finding the stone. Even if it were not stolen, there was a great risk that the finder might mistake it for a worthless bit of yellow glass, and throw it away.
This, in fact, very nearly happened. It was a stableman in the neighborhood who picked up the diamond. He thought it was of no value, and tossed it carelessly into a box where he kept his bits, buckles, and scraps of leather. Luckily one of the posters eventually caught his eye, and he returned the diamond to its anxious owners.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16211, 23 August 1923, Page 5
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