HIS DEAD WIFE’S JEWELS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3547, 7 August 1920, Page 2

HIS DEAD WIFE’S JEWELS.

E (1141.-\;\'[l’AGNL*l KJLNU 1.031115 GEMS I \«\"'uRTH. .£4(>,uoo. R I.)omils lmvc 311:1? rezuzllcd 1110 of an _ extl":umlin:u';,* roxuuxx-:0, the «thief scenes { «.1' whicll are laifi in fßer}in.'=.l’ul‘i.~' __;uld ‘L-Von‘ Y0:-l~'. ;;\\'r'ile.~t 11:0 Pzlris c.ol'x'C—‘i.~"‘L)(:iluL‘l)”l m" f:"u- _~l_<>z'.<!uln' Dztiky Ex? _ 1::-(*.=::'). \'\'2L]t'.Ul' .\l_umm, of 4-h:lnlp:lgn'e fmmfi, Iqurriml an .‘-\‘.mol'ic::n .'wii'e. Mulnm, mm is ;x_ may-x-.v.:r.1:, In:l'.l:2;_{‘(.‘(l by some InyS[..«.-‘l‘imls illeuns fu o.<(‘:lpc from I‘3":c.n:.:<9 biwk to (;‘ror.m:.u2_v dircuily after the outbreak of v».'u.x'. Wlmt he did Cllll'illg the tlurzltion pf hv.).~".'i M 3955 is \‘.l:Lp'pOt.l in mystery. Dix’w:l,ly ufrcr the ur:u'lslice .'\lfimnl’s wiflr Laq-4'11: an tuttion for 4li\'m'(:e. but thv :IH':lix' nll':xp;g‘ml on alld on. Then Fr:l.u .‘.lu:nm fa-I; ill. \'\'§;i‘m >'l:c was Still .iII a special '.Acj; Was passed by Congress by which {he .21-g:li:wd her .-'\mL‘l'-in-.m uirizc-n.<h.lp. * Hm‘ ilhlos,q_ be<,'ullle gru\'<'r and she‘ was to‘.<l t'}lulT she was <lyillg'. '.l‘ln-cu days bufox-e hm‘ 'de:lL.h. 'wlli('.h. took place in J.’:lriS. she told In;-r sister, Mrs: Louis S. ',l‘l'c:Ldwell, that she had :1 pre-se-ntinwnt that. her husband would cn~ dvavour to secure possession of her jewels. Her presentment. was correct. Mrs 'l‘reudWell was enlb:xl'kin'g in -the Adl'_izltic at Chol'boul'g when she was s'toppcd by the police, who "seized her luandbag, (containing jo\\'ellery worth about: £4(),000.

The ]:‘r-ench police» had undoubtedly been inst.ructe(l by the Cierxll2l.n police a.ctin;,>‘ on behalf of Herr Mumm, and their written instiuctiolxs said that the jewels would be fomld in :1 bag carried either ‘by Mrs 'l‘readwel-l or her English maid. Mrs Tmeadwdll W-,qte..~:t.e(l¢ (leclaring that the js'i*vel.‘s- w€re her lown pl'operf.y, uncl. tlml: her sister’s gems were ilcposited at the United States Embassy in Paris. I have ascertained flzlaft this is a fa.c~t, and txlmt the jewels will be llel<l in. ’r.l'usl: fo'x' the late Mxs Mumm’s five-lear-old daughter.