The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-27
A STORY OF LOST JEWELS.
\ Careless Maid Put Them I'm a
Drawer and Forgot All About Them.
From the Edinburgh Scotsman.

From the Edinburgh Scotsman.
"A valuable casket of jewels which dis
appeared in most mysterious circum-
stances has just been restored TO its owner
by the Edinburgh police. A lady and gen.
tleman belonging to the Highlands recent
~ arrived in Edinburgh, and took a suite
OF rooms in one of the hotels. The
hIlsla, as usual, did the ladys packing
DeIore leaving the north, and among other
articles taken was casket Containing the
lady jewels, which We're of great value
- -a.lr worth, It is said, being many thou
sahos OF pounds. On arriving in Edin-
ourgh, the maid also did the unpacking.
ana seems TO have mechanically lifted
u. me Dox OF Jewels and TO have deposited
then IN drawer in a piece OF furniture
IN one OF the bed rooms of the suite the
FAMILY were occupying in the hotel
me LADY had come to town TO consult a
medical man, and was under the impress
sion on starting that she might have to
TeInalh IN Edinburgh for a few weeks.
Blt TINS turned out not to be necessary.
trunks were packed again, and the lady
and gentleman departed after a few DAYS.
stay IN lhe CITY 10 visit friends in other
parts. But IN the course of the packing
Ihe maid asked the lady what she had
done with the Jewels The lady natural
~ SAID that she had never seen them
ana asked; You surely never brought
appears to have lost her head altogether:
she had evidently forgotten entirely that
she mad put them into a drawer on ar
found, she ultimately allowed the lady to
persuade her that the jewels had not been
brought to Edinburgh at all
The visits the lady and gentleman were
paying ended in the beginning of last
week, and they returned to their Highland
home There the jewels were sought for
ana, OF course, could not be found The
gentleman Immediately telegraphed to his
agents in Edinburgh. They plit the mat
ter into the hands Of the police. The maid
was sent south at the same time and was
closely Intercepted by the chief of police
but nothing could be made of the poor
girl, VINO was now in very excitable
state at the thought of the jewels having
either been lost or stolen. The police
could make nothing of her; she could not
remember having handled the valuable
caskeI, and accordingly they were thrown
enurely on their own resources in max
ing their inquiries.
The case was, intrusted to Supt Balm.
who, with a staff of detectives, has been
engaged in investigating il for several
days. The whole of the rooms in the
hotel which had been occupied by the lady
and gentleman were searched save one
which, in the interval, had been assigned
to an invalid lady, who, it was thought
should not be disturbed unless there was
an absolute necessity to do so. This was
agreed TO all the more readily from the
unlikelihood that anything so valuable
would have been left in this particular
room. The police endeavored to get on
the track of the jewels, but in vain. They
made inquiries at all the places at which
the lady and gentleman had stopped on
their way to Edinburgh, and at those
houses they had visited on their way
north. and the usual inquiries were made
in the city. These were of a fruitless
character. Before doing more, il was re-
solved to have the remaining room in the
hotel examined. The wife of the hotel
keeper was sent into the apartment to
take a general look around, so that the
invalid might be disturbed as little as pos
sible She proceeded to search the draw
ers of the furniture of the apartment, and
reposing at the bottom of one of them,
she, to her great joy, found the missing
casket. on the box being opened the jew
els, of course, were found intact.