THE LOST PEARLS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1147, 18 September 1913, Page 3

THE LOST PEARLS.

WORKMAN’S LUCKY FIND

London, Sept. 16. , Two workmen were working in Saint Paul’s road, Highbury, when they noticed a parcel in the gutter. They picked it up and a pearl dropped out. The police were informed, and a jeweller was called, who pronounced the contents genuine. Scotland Yard was then informed. It is believed that the parcel was

. placed in the gutter purposely to enable it to be discovered. There / were fifty-eight pearls in it, and Mr Mayer identified them as belonging to the missing necklace. It is stated that the workman who was the actual finder of the fifty-eight pearls received £BOOO of the reward of £IO,OOO offered.

The pearl necklace,' valued at £135,000, was stolen during transit in the post from Paris to a Hatton-garden merchant. The necklace was sent from Paris by registered post, in a case wrapped in paper, which was covered with seals, and was addressed to Messrs Mayer, 88 Hatton Garden. When it arrived there the next day the seals of the package were intact, but on the case being opened only pieces of sugar and some sawdust .were found inside. The necklace had vanished. The • sugar was of French manufacture, and it. is presumed that the abstraction of the necklace took , place on French soil. Mr Mayer, the owner of the necklace, himself opened the package. The thieves were caught about a week ago, through a relative selling them to the police for £IO,OOO reward. But only three pearls were recovered.