STOLEN NECKLACE.
REGISTERED IN PARIS. (SYDNEY "SUN" SPECIAL.) (Received July 18, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. The pearl necklace valued at £150,000, stolen between Paris and Hatton Gardens while in transit by post, was registered in PtR-is on Tuesday last. It was addressed to Max Mayer, an Australian authority on pearls, and contained 61 pearls. It was insured. It is assumed that the theft was perpetrated in France. BIG SENSATION CAUSED. The loss of the necklace has caused the biggest sensation in Hatton Gardens history. Mr Mayer, the owner, was occupied for a year in collecting the 61 1 pearls of which the missing necklace consisted. It is believed the necklace was the most valuable/.in. the' world, the price asked for it being £150,000. It w'as insured for the full amount at Lloyds, who offered £IO,OOO reward. The sugar placed in the packet from which the necklace was taken represents the weight of the pearls to a gramme. Several seals had apparently been removed and exactly similar ones added.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 July 1913, Page 5
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169STOLEN NECKLACE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 July 1913, Page 5
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