JEWELS HEART AND HAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1923, Page 3

JEWELS HEART AND HAND.

.IP, u 1.1 ,r>. 111 ..w ■ ...... NEW YORK. July 2G. When the White Star liner Homeric arrived at New York yesterday evening she found the Customs officials awaiting her in the bay in a special tug. The officials boarded her, searching not lor hidden stoves of liquor, but lor £20.(M0 worth of pearls and diamonds carried by Air Frank Amlitore, who iwidelv known as the “ millionaire stevedoro of Brooklyn. Mr Amlitore had omitted to include tin gems in his Customs declaration, and the authorities might have known nothing about them if newspaper despatches last week had not contained a picturesque account of how on the boat train from Baris to Cherbourg lie di.--i overed he had left them in his hotel, ami how he recovered them by aeroplane and succeeded m catching toe Homeric as the gang plank was being withdrawn. Alt - Amlitore tMil the C ustoins agents a touching story of blighted romance, which the latter are to-day subjecting to a merciless process of investigation. His store is that he purchased the jewels iu America and rushed to Bans in order to lay them, with the offer ot his heart and hand, at the feet ol a beautiful compatriot, Aliss Alorohcad. The lady spurned the jewels, hear, and hand,' and he returned forthwith disconsolate to his adopted land, ignorant of the fact that lie had violated value of the jewels in his possession (he law by omitting to declare t.ie