The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-10
ITS OWNER FOUND
1t Turns Out the Big Pat Hus-
sey Diamond
Belongs to Mrs. Sells reenspan
Who Identifies 1t.
1T is WORTH $4,000.
Was a Mate to One of Her Ear
Drops.
Mrs. Greenspan Gives 500 to
IT is WORTH $4,000.
Mrs. Greenspan Gives 500 to
Patrick HusSey.

The big diamond picked up by the little
daughter of Brakeman Patrick Hussey OF
the Santa Fe at the Klein street crossing
last September has been turned over TO
Mrs. s. A Sells-G reenspan. who lost ii
last fall. The delivery was made today
after Mrs. Greenspan had satisfied mr..
H. s. Montgomery. who was in possession
of it, that the valuable stone was really
hers.
The diamond was one of a pair worn
ear pendants by Mrs. GreenSpan. They
We're presented to her by her husband the
late Allen Sells when he was in the show
business ten years before his death. The
pair cost Mr.. Sells $500 though the origi-
nal price was 81 600 and they weighed near
seven carats each. They were pure white
and all jewelers. admit their value, The
s.. 100
Mrs. Greenspan lost the diamond during
the Fall Festival She came up town in
her carriage to watch parade and after
ward drove about the city When she
reached home one of her diamonds
gone She remembered that she got OUT
nues and every bit of the street in that
vicinity was carefully searched.
kept up increasingly and when Mrs
Greenspan failed to find it she advertised
for the missing gem, offering reward OF
500 for its return. She heard nothing of
it and then gave it up as lost
When some one suggested to her that
the Pat Hussey diamond might be hers
she had faith in the hope held out and
made no investigation until yesterday,
gomery and made inquiries about the
stone. She was told that he's had given
HuSSey $500 for the diamond. but that he
did not wish to keep it If it belonged to
her. Mrs. SellS-Greenspan showed MI
Montgomery the other diamond and he
was at once convinced that the HuSsey
diamond really belonged to Mrs Green
span.
To-Day Mr.. Montgomery went to Mr.
HuSSey and laid the matter before him
and told him that if he would return 800
of the money paid him for the stone he
would be allowed to keep the other 500.
Mr.. Hussey at once turned over the mon
ey and today Mrs. Sells paid Mr.. Mont
gomery $780, reimbursing him and he
turned over the diamond. He got nothing
| for his trouble.
f~sMr. Montgomery told a Journal report
er today that the stone is one of the I'm
est he ever saw. 1t is very valuable be-
stone without flaws and of perfect color
| 1 am glad that the owner has the gem
/ for / intended to turn il over as soon as
| l found out to whom it belonged.
The diamond was sent to Kansas City
] a few days ago to be inspected by man
named ]. II. Wilson. who claimed TO have
| lost large diamond from car window
sas City, but when he described the dia-
mond it was proven that it was not his
On looking at it, he at once said that 1t
/ was not he one he lost
Another man who laid claim to the dfa-
| mond was l.. Blackman. He said that ne
had lost one. a mate to the one he now
| wears, and he threatened to replevin the
| Mrs. Greenspan- Mr. Montgomery IS
| heartily glad to have the matter settled
and the diamond in possession Of the per-
son to whom it belongs.