UNJUSTLY SUSPECTED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1500, 7 March 1887, Page 3

UNJUSTLY SUSPECTED.

At a sale whioh took place on the death of the reotor of a parish near Chester, a piano was knookod down to a tradesman of the city. On being tuned and repaired two costly rings were found beneath the keyboard. The finder communicated with the rector's widow, when the following sad story oame light : Eleven years before a lady Btaylng at the reotory had lost theae very rings. She had evidently taken them off while playing and laid them on the the piano, and they had them Bomehow slipped m under the keys. Suspicion, however, bad fallen upon a maid then m the service of the family, and she was sent horn.. Her father, a email farmer, waa terribly upset at the disgraoa which had fallen upon his name and family, and refused to receive her. The poor girl went away fr_ >m the neighborhood, m fact, she disappeared. On the finding of the rings every endeavour was made to .find her, but m vain. Advertisements were even Inserted m the publio newspapers, promising her a considerable annuity, but with no result. Unjustly su.pected, she had hidden herself from all her former belongings, and w;»s n<.ver h<.ard of again.