GOLCONDA DIAMOND
EAMO US STONE’S HISTORY. The famous Golconda diamond, which has been sold to a London diamond merchant by the Archduke Joseph for £25,000, is not only the most magnificent Indian diamond in existence, but also has the most romantic history. The diamond was found about a century a.go by an Indian digger at Golconda, in the State of Hyderabad. The finder was murdered by an overseer named Turner to whom he showed the stone. Turner, pursued by the police, swallowed the diamond and died in agony in the arms of his captors. The police doctor who made a post-mortem examination discovered the diamond in the dead man’s stomach, concealed the
stone and sold it to a wealthy Engj lish planter, who caused it to be in- ! eluded in a costly diadem ordered for a well-known English dancer who was performing in Calcutta at the time. . During her return journey to Eng- ! land the dancer mysteriously disappeared from the ship, and in 1849 a down-at-heel individual offered the diaj mond to a British peer known as a collector of precious stones, j The peer, however, informed tho : police, who, on going to interrogate the would-be vepdor, found him in a squalid lodging-house with his throat ! cut. ' Three years later the diamond was ■ bought by an Amsterdam jeweller, j who. m 1870, sold it to the treasurer 'of the House of Hapsburg, in whose j possession it remained during the j tragedies of the Archduke Rudolph, Empress Elizabeth and the Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 10
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253GOLCONDA DIAMOND Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 10
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