FINDINGS NOT KEEPINGS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3411, 30 December 1911, Page 3

FINDINGS NOT KEEPINGS

STORY CF A VALUABLE PEARL

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i.i Bi.Lish law aa act of theft, as an ill-advised carriage-cleaner employed by an automobile company in Paris has found to his cost. Last summer a Madame Payer took a taxi home, and on entering her dwelling found that she had lost a valuable pearl attached to a platinum chain. It had undoubtedly been lost in the cab, because Madame Payer remembered noticing it while in the vehicle. Unfortunately, she did not take the number of the taxi, but she recollected that it was yellow and had a blue flag, so she went to every garage in Paris, seeking to find the lost pearl, but without result. Xo one had seen it. The police were informed, and made diligent but equally fruitless enquiries. A few days ago the pearl turned up in-; the most unexpected fashion. Paris is ’ a very large city, and it his numerous \ jewellers, but by an extraordinary chance the person who had found the pearl went to the very man who had sold it to Madame Payer. The jeweller recognised it at once, and the thief, who is employed as a cleaner of taxicabs, was handed over to the police. Recently lie was sentenced to eightmonths in gaol, and will have plenty of opportunity to reflect on the extraordinary coincidence which led him to the shop of the cue jeweller in Paris who was able to detect his wrongful possession of the missing pearl.