The Wheatland World

There seems no end to the curious stories about jewels lost and stolen. One of the latest is that of Mrs. A., who recently took a pair of large ruby solitaires to be reset at J.

where they had been purchased. The morning after the maid brought her the card of the firm, saying a gentleman wished to see her, and, on going down to the drawing room, found one of the clerks, who told her that the stones, which were apparently of great value, were in reality false and worthless. Very much agitated over the intelligence, Mrs. A. asserted that the jewels had never left her possession since their purchase and claimed that the fraud must have been perpetrated before she received them. This, of course, the firm denied, but the feeling on the subject became very bitter on both sides and detectives were employed by both to ferret the mystery. When a former butler of Mrs. A. was proved to be a discharged clerk of the well known jewelers the inference was obvious, although no proof against the man has been found and the jewels have never been recovered.—Boston Gazette.