NECKLACE MYSTERY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5094, 28 February 1927, Page 2

NECKLACE MYSTERY.

£20,000 miILS DISAPREAR. PARCEL UNBROKEN. LONDON, February 25. Police detectives and skilled investigators employed by insurance assessors, confess that they are nonplussed by the disappearance of the £20,000 necklace of Mrs Bruce Ismay. She sent the necklace with another worth £25,000 to a famous Bond Street firm on Thursday for restringing and revaluation. When the restringing had been completed the necklaces were handed to the sales counter, where they were wrapped and passed to the packing office. The senior officer of the firm said he had both necklaces wrapped up and personally delivered to Mrs Ismay, awing to their great value. They were also under a guard the whole time. He obtained a receipt fiom the butler, and the parcel, unopened, was placed in Mrs Ismay’s room, where it was opened in the presence of a maid less than an hour afterwards. There was then only one necklace. The seals of the parcel were intact and there were no signs of tampering.

As illustrating the intensity of the search, refuse of the streets along the whole route from the shop has been sited with' ut avail. A reward of £2OOO is offered for the recovery of the pearl necklace. The missing necklace consists of 53 pearls. Mrs Bruce Ismay is the wife cf the well-known shipping magnate, Mr J. Bruce Ismay.