“My Husband Will Pay"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 22

“My Husband Will Pay"

PRICELESS PEARL NECKLACES HRS. MORTIMER DAVIS of -the dancers internationally famous as the Dolly Sistersl appeared before the examining magistrate at the Palais de Justice in Paris recently. Some time ago Miss Rosie Dolly and her husband bought two magnificent pearl necklaces from two Parisian jewellers, MM. Pollack and Chaumet. She had the two necklaces made into one. Payment for them not having been completed, the jewellers lodged a complaint and asked for the restitution of the necklaces. Miss Dolly handed over the remade necklace and M. Chaumet identified the whole of his pearls, but M. Pollack identified only part of his necklace, four dozen pearls being missing. He alleges that Miss Rosie Dolly had a bracelet made with the missing pearls. The inquiry was adjourned. Sirs.

Mortimer Davis was represented by Maitre Alexandre Millerand, the exPresident of the Republic. Miss Dolly’s Explanation Miss Dolly, explaining how the 48 pearls came to be missing, said she wished to have them included in a St. Andrew’s Cross which she possessed, and she told her maid to see to it. Later, when asked for the jewel, her maid said she had lost the pearls and replaced them by false ones. The examining magistrate asked Miss Dolly whether she would agree to the two necklaces being sold or whether she Was willing to pay for the missing pearls, and she replied: “These two necklaces were offered me by my husband, and I am particularly fond of them. He is a rich man and will pay.”