£10,000 FIND IN DEAD LETTER OFFICE.

Shannon News, 9 February 1926, Page 3

£IO,OOO FIND IN DEAD LETTER OFFICE.

BARONET’S SISTER RECOVERS MISSING JEWELS

A £IO,OOO pearl necklace, for which English and Canadian detectives had searched in vain fof over three months, has been found in the Dead Letter Office of the G.P.O. in London. An anonymous letter addressed to a Cambridge undergraduate led to the jewels being recovered intact. - They are now in the possession of the Post Office detectives, awaiting, identification by the owner, the Hon. Mrs. E. J. Blyth, sister of Sir John Brunner, Bart., and wife of the second son of Lord Blyth. Mrs. Blyth is at present abroad. The mysterious history of the necklace begins in Canada, where Mrs. Blyth had been visiting friends. On the eve of her return to England, on August 15 last, she was replacing the necklace in its case when the string broke. Only one pearl was detached, and Mi s. Blyth wrapped this stone and the two pieces of the necklace in a handkerchief and placed them finder the tray of a green leather jewel ease. "When »’Je boarded the 'iner Aseonia tne jewel case was placed in the .strong room. Some days after her nrr’val in England she discovered that although ad her other jewels were -r----tuct the necklace was gone. Paste anil £IOOO Reward Messrs. Summers and Henderson, the assessors ot the insurance company, offered a reward of. £IOOO, and a tatement was received that some pearls had been found in the grounds of the Chateau, Lake Louis, Alberta, where Mrs. Blyth had been staying. These proved to be not the necklace but only paste. Anonymous Letter to Son | Recently Mr. lan Blyth, her son, wso is at Cambridge, received an anonymous letter, telling him that if he cared to call at the Southampton Post Office and ask for a parcel in the name of Carruthers, he would receive a very welcome surprise. Mn Blyth went there, only to learn that a parcel had been lying there in that name, but that a communication had been received asking that it should be sent to the Dead Letter Office, and chat had been done. In the . parcel were the detached pearl and the two parts of the neck'aee carefully wrapped in cotton wool. Nothing was missing. The handwriting. on the parcel was the same as Unit in the letters.