£60,000 FOR DIAMOND.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1928, Page 1

£60,000 FOR DIAMOND.

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Aliss Peggy Joyce, the blonde who is famous for her marriages' and jewels, lias bought the largest blue diamond in the world. The trinket cost her €OO,OOO. The stone has been set in a closefitting necklace made of a single line of platinum links encrusted with small diamonds, an adornment so flexible that tbe huge jewel gleams with every movement.

The diamond, weighing 127 carats, is more than an inch square, and is named the “ Black Starr Frost Diamond ” after tho company that obtained tbe jewel from tbe Kimberley mines 15 years ago.

Aliss Joyce (who lias had four marriages dissolved) lias not been allowed to buy this unique addition to her collection without a report spreading that there is yet another romance budding in her life. But this rumour she herself does not confirm.

AY OMAN HOAXES POLICE

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An April Fool’s joke on the part of Mile. Leontine Gigonx. a stalwart woman newsvendor, lias led to her be-

ing sent to prison. Early on Sunday morning, April 1, AJlle. Gigou.x was seen by the police standing on the bridge leaning from Notre Dame Cathedral to the left bank of the Seine shouting that she had just seen two men throw a woman into the river. The police searched the Seine for miles in a vain endeavour to recover the body.

Yesterday Alllc. Gigoux, pressed for further details, confessed with a laugh that it was only a joke. She declared that her “young man” bad left her. and she thought that if lie saw her name in tbe newspapers be would come back, and that she bad made up the story on tho spur of the moment. As she had not only told her story to the police, but. had also repeated it to a police magistrate, she has been sent to prison to await her trial for contempt of court, during which time she will be able to reflect on the risk of choosing the police as tbe victims of her joke.