Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-21
LINKED | WITH DEATH.
Articles That Brought Tragedy to
Their Owners.
SOME QUEER CONDOLENCES.
The Hindoo Idol That Mime. Garnet
Ordered DestroyedA Grim Exhibit
In London MuseumA Ring That
Brought Its Owners to Suicide.


In a London Museum-A Ring That
Brought Its Owners to Suicide.
OF course the psychologists have ex-
plantations for them all, but there
are lots Of things that happen that
somehow do not respond readily to
these so called explanations OF purely
mental effect or accidental coinci-
dences" and all that sort Of thing.
When Nine. Garnet widow Of sadi.
Carnot, died and her Will was read, 81
clause in it caused considerable com
ment. This was to the effect that a
certain small Hindoo idol carved from
a hard stone which would be found
among her property must be taken out
and crushed until completely destroy
ed. Many maryeled at this apparently
singular request, for the idol seemed
a harmless, ugly little thing, but her
instructions were carried out to the
letter.
: The idol had been presented to Sadis
Carnot years before he had ever
thought of the presidency of France
by a friend who had brought 1t from
India. Later he learned that there
was a legend attached to 1t which as.
serted that whatsoever would retain 1t
In his possession would rise to the
fullest height Of power in his chosen
profession, but die of stab wound
when at the zenith of his career. Car
not traced the history of the idol and
found that for 500 years the rulers
who had possessed it had all died
either In battle or by assassination Of
stab wounds. Yet he laughed at the
story, called the facts adduced by his
search a. mere chain of condolences
and retained the idol. He died by d
dagger In the hands Of an assassin;
hence Nine. CARROTS strange request.
In Chicago a paWnbroker has queer
looking old turnip OF watch that ne
win not sell and will not wear, for he
knows its history. He bought 1t at u
sale of accumulated police property,
and after the sale as a warning one OF
the police officials related three Coin
cidences" In connection with Il. The
first Chicago man to own the watch,
SO far as the police knew. had been
killed by a burglar, and the watch was
one Of the, few things the thief got
away with. a few weeks later the
burglar. with party OF his pals, pur-5
sued by the police for another crime,
took refuge Id d house on the outskirts
Of the city and sought to hold the Off
GERS at bay. All were taken alive ex-
cept the burglar, and he was shot dead.
The watch was found on his body. 1t
was around the detective bureau for a
long time, and one day one OF the
force asked permission to take it home;
to show some friends, his description
of its quaint, curious case having
aroused their curiosity. On his way
back to report that night, with the
watch In his possession, he was shot
dead by crook who had q long stand
Ing grudge against him.
The pawnbroker put the watch In
his showcase, but purely as an orna-
ment and made such investigation re-
garding It's history as he could. He
learned that 1t had been made in
France more than hundred years
ago, and five men who had worn It had
died violent deaths. Yet these were
all condolences, and the curse OF the
old woman from whose hands it had
been siaatehed by q thief in Bordeaux
shortly after 1t left its makers hands
had nothing to do with the case what
ever. s5.
. In the South Kensington museum.
London. there IS an object cataloguea
22,458. 1T is q cast of a woman's face
and was found in an excavation not
far from Luxor, In Egypt. The cast Is
that Of beautiful woman, but the
face wears an expression Of sinister
evil. The man who found the cast
died within twenty four hours after he
had touched It, and the two workers
who handled 1t died within a few
weeks. Three of the carriers who han
died 1t on the Nile boat died within 9
short space of time, and the man who
reshipped 1t at Cairo also died within
less than q week after he had played
his part In the work Of getting 1t to its
dGslIudLlOu. All tHGS6 were SetHiHkly
natural deaths. but 1t Is odd that all
the men whose fingers touched the cast
In Egypt should have died SO soon aft,
er the handling
Then there Is the ring OF which
Girouard, the French detective, has
told us and which now Ii In one OF thu
museums OF Paris. 1t Id odd In thal
1t Is flexible, slightly 70, for 1t Is form
4 ed like a twisted serpent In closely
woven gold links with an opal on Thu
top OF the head, two tiny emeraIds fol
eyes and ruby In Its mouth. Sever
such rings are not apt to be Ia exist
ence In any one city, yet seven times
during the twenty-nine years Girouart
served the Partisan police In a position
A which brought him to the norgue dali,
he found this ring ON the bodies d
suicides. Four times 1t had beeI
claimed by relatives OF the dead, AMI
! twice had 1t been sold. The seventh
time Girouard saw to it that 1t wen
through the usual red tape channels i
i q place where 1t could no longer b.
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