RETURNS GEM TO IDOL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 8

RETURNS GEM TO IDOL.

BURGLAR'S GUILTY fONSCTENCE. Tlie great god Budd, Kipling’s “heathen idol made of mud,’’ demonstrated its power over a guilty conscience and incidentally furnished a robbery elite when a valuable jade ornament taken from a miniature statue of Bndda by a burglar who tooted a Chinese store, at Lots Angeles. was returned. The jade was a |iortion of stolen goods rained at 1:500. Tbe statuette from which il wa- taken I tore an inscription to the effect that a thief of holy things would suffer the pangs of guilty conscience until the stolen articles were returned. The fact that this inscription was in Chinese convinced the proprietors of the store and the police of the natiiinality of the thief. The jade was returned in a package pod-marked ."-an Francisco. and with it came a letter saying simply that the little idol’s pronouncement as to a guilty conscience had been felt down to the last pang.