THE MISSING NECKLACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 8 September 1913, Page 5

THE MISSING NECKLACE.

—♦ HOW IT WAS RECOVERED. IBy LI.ECTRU J ELEGKAI'D — Cueykiuh i l UNITED i'UESS AnHoCI* rM.N i Paris, September G. The newspaper Le Matin relates that Price, representing the underwriters, was approached by two Frenchmen, asking if he would give the £IO,UOL reward if the necklace were restored. The Frenchmen said they knew where the jewels were, but were unable tc purchase them themselves. Price found a jeweller willing to play the part of intermediary. He was instructed to purchase the central pearl and the ’third on the left, which is unique. He gave him marked French banknotes, and the disguised jeweller reached London and got into communication with the Frenchmen, who tool, him on a strange trip to the slums, detectives shadowing them throughout. Finally the jeweller refused t< go further, and arranged that the gang should meet him at the hotel with the necklace next day. The thieves arrived singly, their hands i” tbeir revolver pockets, ami produced the necklace of 61 pearls intact. Only the diamond catch was missing. They asked £50,000 for tbc necklace, and the jeweller finally secured two pearls for £BOOO, promising £32,000 next day for the rest. Instead, the men were arrested. Main states that sugar was substituted for the pearls while on route to London, with the complicity of postal officials, who can be arrested directly an accomplice is caught.