Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-26
CITY AND DISTRICT.
THE STORY OF BROOCH.
a Lest Diamond PIN on Its Travels
How Ii Was Found ffer Many Months
Through an Advertisement i'm the Star.

osT-oN WEDNESDAY EvFNING-A Ola
d5dsr o star noerai reward Will De paid to the
The above advertisement appeared in THE
EVENING STAR one day last February. few
Gays subsequently another advertisement ap-
peareo onering reward of 800 for the recov-
cry or the brooch, and no questions asked The
loser thought, perhaps. that the reward was not
suNcient, for another advertisement followed,
onring $500 reward 1t proved of no avail
however, At the time, and the owner gave up
the brooch as irrevocably lost. Now comes the
sequel A Washington young lady was visit
Ing some friends In Philadelphia this sum-
mer. Among her acquaintance was a
young physician, who in the course
OF conversation one evening told her
OF peculiar case that he had
day 10 attend the sick child of an Ignorant and
poor Frenchman who had come to Philadelphia
nom Washington. The man was poor that
I'll he feared the child would die as he had no
money TO pay physicians fee. Consequently,
He had been called too late. He did ali in his
power, however, 10 save the little one; sat by
the bedside and worked and watched, but all In
vain The Frenchman, although overcome
with grief at bis loss, was very grateful to the
doctor for his unremitting efforts, and telling
him that there was money in the house,
slipped into his hand lady's brooch, the only
means be had of paying him. The doctor put
Il into his pocket without looking at 1t. Hes
posed 1t could be of little value, and he
didn't care TO mortify the poor Frenchman by
examining it in his presence. On reaching his
Office, however, the flash of the stone setting
almost convinced him that the jewels were gen.
uine diamonds, and when he saw Tiffanys
stamp on lhe oack ne no LONGER 9ount er ne
Was told that the stones were very valuable,
and that the brooch was worth something over
. thousand dollars Returning to the French
IAN to inquire how such a valuable article
came into his possession the doctor learned
that one night last winter while in Washington
kha Ere ri inns xVaS NIL "a cara nj
the gentlemen's courtroom at an elegant enter
tainment given at one of the handsome resi-
dences in the West End. Late in the evening
he found it necessary to go out on the pave
meut TO find the carriage of one of the guests In
front of the house he trod on something hard
and looking down saw ii glitter. He picked 1T
up. and putting IL in his pocket attended to his
GRAND. He did not dream of the value of his
ind even after examining 1t later. Suisse
quently he went to MIR. Roustan, the French
minister, but could get no advice from him as
To what he should do and so retained it, The
doctor was satisfied that the Frenchman was
ignorant of the value of the jewel, or else he
would never have given it 10 him for his small
over to keep 1t, thinking that he would be
much more likely to find the owner than the
Frenchman. The young lady To whom the
story was told. and who was much interested,
could throw no light on the matter. On her re-
turn home not long ago, she repeated the story
in the family circle. Her sister on hearing it
said: "Why, that loss was advertised in
The STAR last winter / remember IL very
well, for there was very large reward offered
for the recovery of the brooch" The returned
traveller thinking she might unravel the Inys-
terry went at once 10 The STAR office and hunt
ed through the files. She found the first two
advertisements, the one offering liberal re-
ward and the other S1OO, and mailed copies of
the papers containing them to her friend in
Philadelphia.
1t was not long before she heard from him.
He had written To the Washington address, but
received reply from Newport, whittier he at
once forwarded the lost brooch receiving in re-
turn a handsome sum of money a reward. |
This he turned over to the poor Frenchman,
q q q tad n hIS cd forth Lost
jewel has been found, poor man has been |
raised from utter poverty to comparative plen- |
ty, and two persons have the satisfactory con- |
sciousness of having done a good deed, all on |
account Of a little advertisement in THE STAR |