UNLUCKY STONE
STOLEN IN NEW YORK. Thieves who broke into a house in Port Chester, New York, made off with a gem which is reputed to bring death to those who own it. It is a beetleshaped gem found along the Nile by a British engineer about 1900. It was recently the property of the Kendig family, whose mansion was broken into. The gem had been put away in the house by Mrs J. R. Kendig with strict orders that it was not to be touched. Her husband had died within a few days after coming into possession of the scarab. And the engineer had died three days after he had had the scarab made into a tiepin and had stuck it in his tie.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 8
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125UNLUCKY STONE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 8
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