The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-06-22
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rilclss That Brought Tragedy 70
Their Owners
SOME QUEER CONDOLENCES

The Hindoo ldol That Mmo Garnet
Ordered Destroyed--A Grim Exhibit
il london Mussum--A Ring That
Brought IS Owners 70 Suicide.
OF course the psychologists have exl
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 coincl-
dences ana all that sort Of thing
when Nine. Carnot. widow Of sadi
carnot, died and her viii was read. a
clause III it caused considerable com
ment This was to the effect that a
certain small Hindoo idol carved from
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 Sadi
Carnot years before he had ever
thought Of the presidency Of France
by friend who had brought It from
India. Later he learned that there
was a legend attached to 1t which as
serted that whosoever would retain It
in his possession would rise to the
fullest height Of power in his chosen
profession, but die Of a stab wound
when at thezenith 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 a
dagger In the hands OF an assassin
hence Nine. Carnot's strange sQuest
In Chicago a pawnbroker has queer
looking old turnip Of a watch that he
will not sell and will not wear, for he
knows Its history. He bought It at
sale Of accumulated police property.
and after the sale as a warning one Of
the police officials related three coin
cfdencesH in connection with IT. The
first Chicago man to own the watch,
so far as the police knew, had been
killed BY burglar. and the watch was
one Of the few things the thief got
away with. A few weeks later the
burglar, with a party of bis pals. pur
sued by the police for another crime,
took refuge In 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 might, with the
watch in his possession he was shot
dead by crook who had long stand.
ing grudge against him.
The pawnbroker put the watch in
hts showcase but purely as an orna-
ment, and made such investigation re-
garding its history as he could. He
learned that 1t had been made in
France more than a hundred years
ago. and five men who had worn It had
died violent deaths Yet these were
ell condolences, and the curse Of the
old woman from whose hands It had
been snatched by thief In Bordeaux
shortly after It left its makers hands
mad nothing to do with the case what
ever.
II the South Kensington museum,
London, there is an objejct catalogued
22.450. 1t is a cast Of a woman's face
and was found In an excavation not
far from Luxor, in Egypt. The cast is
that OF a beautiful woman. bur the
face wears en- expression Of sinister
evil The man who found the cast
died within twenty-four hours after he
had touched Il. and the two workers
who handled it died within few
weeks. Three Of the carriers who han
died it on the Nile boat died within d
short space Of time. and the man who
reshipped It at Cairo also died within
less than a week after he had played
bis part III the work Of getting It to Its
destination. All these were seemingly
natural deaths. but 1t is odd that all
the men whose fingers touched the cast
In Egypt should have died 50 soon aft
er the handling,
Then there Is the ring Of which
Glrouard. the French detective, has
told US ana which now Is in one Of th'
museums Of Paris. 1t Is odd In tha
it Is flexible. slightly SO. for 1t Is form
cd like d twisted serpent in closel,
Woven gold links with an opal on th'
top Df the head, two tiny emeralds fo
eyes and a ruby In its mouth Sever
such rings are not apt to be in exist
ence ~ any one city, yet seven time
during the twenty nine years Girouars
served the Partisan police IN position
which brought him to the morgue DAHL
be found this ring on the bodies o
suicides. -Four times It had beel
claimed bg relatives OF the dead, anl
twice had been sold The seventl
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