RING A RING O’ ROSES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 17 September 1913, Page 5

RING A RING O’ ROSES.

‘SOFT SNAP” SQUASHED

The'local police had a little, jut. of exercise on Monday. r Tt was'reporti i ;; •» • f % v } ■ > j 1 'u If * J; t ed that it person Arils' selling*jewellery on the quiet in the hack streets, and an imaginative member of the public, with visions of the, notorious lost necklace, reported'the fact to the police. *

• The whole force of Law and Order at once applied itself to tho problem, and Interviewed the local resident who Had been approached with a view to purchasing the jewellery. All he could say was that ho had been asked to purchase a ring by some party unknown, and had told the party that he had no money concealed about his person. Otherwise, he had. told the party, a deal would have been prooable.

The police here came to a dead end, but after much investigation they were enabled to interview a resident, well known to his friends, who had purchased tho ring. He had given six shillings for it. But beyond that he could help the police officers very little, not having taken much notice of the person from whom, ho had bought I tho ring. ' Brought to another dead end the pohco sat down and thought hard I' rorn the look of the ring, which was thoroughly inspected, it was thought possible that it had.been bought in a fancy-goods shop. The proprietors of the fancy-goods shops were interviewed, and one said the ring was one of the kind he ushally sold for two shillings; and ho ventured the information that the ring in question had been bought from him that very morning. He also gave tho further information that some time after the first purchase the same party came back and bought two more rings. If the enterprising stranger had any luck, probably Stratford residents are at present the proud possessors of these two rings. As it is, the local resident well known to his friends lias loft on his bauds a ring worth four shillings less than he paid for it ; and his only consolation, poor and cold as it is, is oxpermntia docet. And at four shillings n t./tTf oxperientia is cheap.