MISSING EIGHT YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 9

MISSING EIGHT YEARS.

JEWELS IN TOE OF SHOE. BOUGHT AT A RUMMAGE SALE. ALL RETURNED TO OWNER. In the tip end of a shoo, bought at a rummage sale at Westport, Connecticut, on June 28, were found jewels valued at £800, for which the police had etarted search eight years ago. They were the property of Mrs. Chas. I. De Bevoise, wife of General Dβ Bavoise, of Long Shore Farm, near Westport. When the jewels, consisting of two wrist watches and three diamond rings, disappeared Mrs. De Bevoiso was Mrs. Frederick C. Lewis 2nd. Since then she obtained a divorce and was married to General De Bevoise. Thought Jewels Stolen. Mrs. De Bevojse had her jewels when plio returned from Europe eight years ago. However, soon after the jewels disappeared. The matter was reported to the police, who thought the case was one of robbery and made such announcements as "an inside job." Both Mrs. Do Bovois and the police had forgotten tho missing jewels, when a well dressed woman of middle ago entered police headquarters.

"I thought these might be of interest to you," she said, handing over the wrist watches and the rings. One of the watches was of platinum and studded with diamonds.

"I found them in a shoe," she continued, "which I bought at a rummage sale to-day. A jeweller looked at them for me and said they wero valuable."

The police solved the rest of the problem by looking at the initials engraved on the watches. They refused to give out the finder's name, saying that pne requested them not to. They were also at a loss to explain how the jewellery found its way into the shoe, but aufreested that it mipht have been placed there by a frightened thief who intended to return. The police also said it was possible for the jewellery to have accidentally dropped into the shoe. At any rate they returned it to Mrs. De Bevoise.