Pearls In Dead Letter Office.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1926, Page 1

Pearls In Dead Letter Office.

£ 10.Q90 NECKLACE RECOVERED. LONDON, Nov. 28. AVhile Scotland Yard and the Canadian police have been trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a pearl necklace valued at £IO.OOO, the property of the Hon. All's E. J. .Blyth, of Byder-strcet, St. James’, S.AA.. pearls which are believed to lie the lost ones have for over two months, l-een lying in the 0.P.0.. London. They wore' found in the dead-letter olfi-e. Mount Pleasant. E.C., yesterday. Mrs Blyth, who is absent from England at, present, returned to f.<.; : -L*n from Canada on August 20. She handed her jewel case to the purser of the liner. Two days after arriving in Loudon she opened the case and lomu 1 the necklace missing. A week later a report from Camion stated that the necklace had been found in the grounds of a chateau in Alberta; but the supposed pearls vore imitations. Li September Afr Tan Blyth, son ol Airs Blyth, received an anonymous letter, hearing a London postra.ua, statin"': “If von will apply for a letter I addressed to Ah' Carrulhcrs at the G.P.0., Southampton, you will receive a great surprise.” Air Blythe received a second anonymous communication asking him to call for the letter at the G.P.0.. Mount Pleasant, EC. Owing to his studies at Cambridge M r Blyth took no notice of these < omul,mieationx until last wee U-on > v len he handed them to Messrs Summers, Henderson, and Co., the assessors, v m had offered a reward of £I,OOO lor the recovery of the „ IN LOST UaM)KEdCIHM . Mr Summers, with Scotland A ard detectives, went to the dead-letter office and opened a bulky lettei addressed to Air Camithcrs and oiiml inside the pearls, wrapped m a handkercliief lost with the necklace. Mr Summers said to a reporter h.s "Thei-e is tkat lh ° ,I<?ckl l ,c ° is Mrs Blvlli's. It appears to me that the crook after obtaining_ it posted it either from Canada or Item somewhere in this country to Southampton and intended to call lor it. Probably the fear that l'.e was b, in watched made him alter his plans. f • after a fortnight he wrote to the p<~ti,ester at Southampton and asksil to the G.P.0.. London. Ih »\ U ( master did. Aim; >‘,ng Bn - ’ weeks unclaimed the h trei • 1 into the dead-letter office. We cannot tell where the IvlU was ousted until it Ims been nm-reseop - "dh examined, as the cover has been damaged.