Unjustly Suspected.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2048, 28 March 1887, Page 2

Unjustly Suspected.

At a pale which took place at th# death of (he redor of a pariah near Oh rlor, a piar-o was knocked down to a tradesman of the city. One being tuned and repaired two costly rings were found beneath the keyboard. The finder communicated witc tbs rector’s widow, when the following sad story came to light; —Eleven years before a lady staying at the rectory bad lost these very rings. She had evidently taken them off while playing and laid them on the piano, and they had then somehow slipped in under the keys. Suspicion, however, had fallen upon a maid then in the service of the family, and she was sent horns. Her father, a small farmer, was terribly upset at the disgrace which had fallen upon his name and family, and refused to receive her. The poor girl wont away from the neighborhood ; in fact, she disappeared. On the finding of the rings every endeavour was made to find her, but in vain. Advertisements were even inserted in the public newspapers, promising her a considerable annuity, but with no result. Unjustly suspected, she had hidden herself from all her former belongings, and was never heard of again.