JEWEL MYSTERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 12

JEWEL MYSTERY

VALUABLE RINGS FOUND WRECKED 'PLANE PARIS, Dec. 4. Jewels worth 300,000 francs, which were believed to have been lost when the French liner Georges Pliillippa burned in the Gulf of Aden in 1932, were recovered on Sunday by the French police through a jeweller in Lyons. These jewels, a, set of rings, belonged lo Mine, bang Willar, one of the passengers cm the liner, and the insurance had been paid by Lloyds. They were brought lo the. Lyons jeweller by an' Italian coal merchant, who asked for an estimate of their value. The jeweller notified the police, wdio later took into custody a young Italian friend of the coal merchant, Joseph Leiili, who had brought the rings from Italy. Lord! assured the police that the rings were found by his father in the wreckage of an airplane in the Italian mountains. lie said he did not consider them valuable, since several jewellers offered negligible sums. An investigation showed that Lerdi probably was acting in good faith and lie was released. It was found that M. and Mine. Willar were saved by a Russian freighter and lauded at Aden. Later they went to Brindisi and took an ail-plane for France. The plane crashed in the mountains and M. Willar, bis wife and all on board were burned to death. It had only been presumed 1 the jewels were lost, aboard the liner.