DOLLY SISTER'S PEARLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 13

DOLLY SISTER'S PEARLS

POLICE TO SEIZE £56,000 NECKLACE never paid for . Paris court recently ordered the uestration of a magnificent pearl ' eq klace valued at £56,000, which IZ bought by Miss Rosie Dolly (for--olle of the famous “Dolly Slsme ..j an( ] her husband, Mr. Mortimer ‘ e ” s , son of the late English milD ® <sir Mortimer Davis, says the lionaire, “Daily It bad been alleged that the pearls had not been paid for. According to the evidence given to he court by the petitioners (two well--1 wn Paris jewellers), the famous 'dancer, about, a year ago, bought at .heir respective shops two pearl neck-»-hirh w'-re similar and cost lacos, wnicii c9g,000 each. - Miss Do 1 1? had lhe tw ° necklaces ..‘verted into one. C °n was alleged in court that at the Mr Mortimer Davis, who had t in his possession the necessary h°nda to pay for the necklaces, signed ra l bills, explaining to the jewel- , .h a t he was to come into possestnn of a fortune, bringing him £200,000 a year, left to him by his fat tt e was further alleged that these hills have not been met, and that d (Acuities have been experienced by ,hn jewellers iu communicating with Mr Mortimer Davis, who is now travelling in America. • s tor Miss Rosie Dolly, she was „il'„eed to have replied to the jewelfers_who asked for the £56,001) due ,o them or for the return of the nrecious necklace —that “it must be at the bottom of one of my trunks.” In consequence of the jewellers’ complaint, the court has ordered the sequestration of the necklace —a measure which was opposed by Miss Dolly’s counsel. . . . . The investigating magistrate has given instructions to the police ta look for the necklace and seize It.