STORY OF A DIAMOND.
- - <► A strange story about the “Sunbeam ” diamond is told iu La Lanterno. In 1866 a diamond valued at over £120,000 was found in a Chilian mine. Its owner, Joam Pareso, hawked it about Europe and at length found a purchaser in Queen Victoria, it was put into the hands of a Bond-street (London) jeweller to lie .scr, and for eight days was exhih-t.cd in his window.
One fine morning the jeweller found the case in which it was specially set apart broken, and the jewel gone. No trace of the thief could be found, and the jeweller partially indemnified the Queen for her loss. On the 7th of May 1 ast there died in a miserable lodging in Strasburg a man of 70 named Julian Partridge. His landlord was amazed to find in Partridge’s pocket a huge diamond, wrapped up in a letter, telling that he, finding himself dying, wished to explain that the diamond in his pocket was the “ Sunbeam,” which he had stolen. Knowing that Mr Pareso had shown it all over Europe, he had not, after all, dared to attempt to sell it. The diamond was returned to the Queen, who of course repaid the jeweller.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2585, 4 October 1884, Page 3
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203STORY OF A DIAMOND. Kumara Times, Issue 2585, 4 October 1884, Page 3
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