A COSTLY SANDWICH.
Just before a Regiment of Engineerdeparted from camp for Chicago, where most of the members live, several sought medical aid to find a missing diamond, owned by a Mrs. S. F. Gates. The soldiers "proposed to the regimental surgeons, it is reported, that each be X-rayed in an effort to ascertain who had the missing diamond in his midst.
The diamond disappeared while the soldiers wore eating at a canteen, after marching in a_ Memorial Day parade, and there is a suspicion that a soldier swallowed the diamond in a sandwich.
Mrs. Gates is a ca.nteen worker.' She made many of tho sandwiches which were eaten after tho parade. Sho wore a handsome diamond ring when she began. Afterward, she, disco%;ered the stone had dropped from its setting. Careful search failed to disclose it. Mm. Gates thought it foil into a sandwich.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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145A COSTLY SANDWICH. Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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