RING’S RETURN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20540, 15 February 1935, Page 5

RING’S RETURN.

Lost When Plane Crashed in. Mountains. OFFERED FOR SALE BY ITALIAN Two years ago the French liner Georges Philippar caught fire off Somaliland with considerable loss of life. Two English passengers, Mr and Mrs Longvillars, who escaped, chartered an aeroplane to fly home to England. The plane crashed in the mountains, and both were killed, together with the pilot. Months later an Italian named Joseph Lardi, called at a jeweller’s shop in Lyons and offered two rings for sale, for which he asked 100 francs. The jeweller examinee} the rings and found them to be very valuable. He discovered that the rings had belonged to Mrs Longvillars, and they had been insured at Lloyds, and that a claim for their loss had been met after the aeroplane tragedy. Lardi was placed under arrest, and he told the police that he went to Italy to visit his foster-father, who, he said, gave him the rings for his wife, stating that he had found them in the mpuntains, just near where an aeroplane had been wrecked. As Lardi’s antecedents were found to be good, his story was accepted, and he was set at liberty.