THE STOLEN NECKLACE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 7

THE STOLEN NECKLACE

£10,000 REWARD. HELD FOR A RANSOM. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (l!ec. August 28, 8.10 p.m.) Sydney, August 28. The New South Wales l'olico Do-art-ment has received advice from Scotland Yard that- a reward of £10,000 has been offered for information which will lead to tho-recovery of tho pear 1 necklace which disappeared while in transit through tho post between Paris anil ffatton Garden, consigned by Mr. Salomon to Mr. Mayer. NEWS OF THE NECKLACE.' (Rec. August 28, 11.20 p.m.) Berlin, August 28. A gang of thieves holds the Mavor necklace for ransom, Tho text of the offer runs as follows:— •£IO,OOO reward will ho paid by llesars. i rice ami Gibbs, of 23 St. Swithin's Jjano, L.C., acting for and on behalf of 11 3 to such person who i i! i^' T . 6 rs ' : information wnich shaLl lead to the conviction of the thief or thieves and the recovery of tho stolon property, such property consisting oi a "J 10 Oriental pearl necklace, of G1 graduated pearls, and weighing 1259 grains, tho centre pearl weighing 47 1-16 grains, and the thirty_ pearls on ono.side oi tho string weighing in rotation as follows:— Grains, 11 1-16, 11*, lOjf, 12J, 12, 13?, 142, 14|, 153, 351, 15J, 15 9-16, 16 5-16, 173, 18, 17f, 19!, 20}, 19 7-16, 21 7-16, 21}, 22, 223, 233, 245, 27-3, 33 3-16, 34, 8S 3-16, 45 9-16. And tho other side as followsloi, 111, 11}, 12}, 12}, 13 7-16, 15 1-16, 15 1-16, 15}, 15J, 16 7-16, 16}, 16}, 18, 17 7-16, 17}, 17 11-16,. 20j, 21}, 21}, 23}, 23, '23 9-16, 24 13-16, 24 7-16, 27f, 30 11-16, 33jj, 39 5-16, 40 1-16. ■ Terminating with a diamond clasp and snap. The necklace was contained in a box wrapped in blue linen paper, sealed with several largo red seals, and measuring 121 in. by sjin. by 2}in.' Thiarc was alto in the -same box two drop pearls weighing 941 grains, and ono round' pearl weighing 27 grains. The theft is believed to have been. committed- between tlio hours o.f 4 p.m. on.Tuesday, July 15, and 8.30 a.m. oil Wednesday, July "16, in transit b,y post between the* Bno do Provence, Paris, and Rat.ton Garden, London. Information to be i'lirniished eiither to Messrs. Pricc and Gibbs, as above; Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, 'solicitors, of Ely Place, Holborn, London; or au.f police office. ' | The feeling among persons financially i affected by tho theft is that the necklace robber}' was committed after the package was accepted by the French Post Office. Jl. .Salomon's staff in Paris is an exceedingly small one on which complete rriianca is placed-. Shrewd persons, ' therefore, are now not indisposed to seek the beginning of a plot over four years ago —in the French Postal Strike, it will lie remembered that between. 700 and 800 employees were then suspended and that over 200 of tho strikers we.re dismissed. That occasion would eeem to have been the opportunity of a lifetimo for the man who works by stealth. It is understood that all sorts -and conditions of men were then enrolled in the service of tho State and there is an impression that tho swris may then have been sown, of n planit which has only lately been appearing.