Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-05
MYSTERIOUS BLUE PEARL,
Eye of Indian Idol Valued at $500
600 Is Lost in Boston.

A blue pearl worth 100000, stolen
from the eye of a statue of Buddha
in India, sought for five years all over
the world and recovered in New York
few days ago, was stolen or lost
again here today.
Such is the strange story that Harris
MacAdams. Of London, tells.
Mr.. MacAdams has the idea that
some one, perhaps an East Indian de-
voice, a Buddhist priest, perhaps, fol-
lowed him first to New York and then
to Boston, awaiting his chance to steal
the pearl, to him priceless because of
it's sanctty.
or course, Wilkie Collins told very
much the same story. infinitely better,
in 1.-THE Moonstone."
Mr. MacAdams says that as the
temporary possessOr of the blue pearl
he was only an agent a messenger.
He was acting for Major Prize. of the
Seventeenth Lancers, of His Maj
esty's army. Major Prize in turn. is
acting for firm of English solicitors.
who represent the Rajah Rama. In
the possessions of the Indian potenate
stands the temple whose statue Of
guard, was despoiled Of the blue pearl
and other sacred gems that adorned
it.
After ceaSeleSs search for years,
SAYS Mr/MacAdams, the blue pearl
was located in New York in the hands
of certain pawnbroker. At Major
Prizes urging MacAdams hurried from
London to New York. There he paid
1913, 900 to the pawnbrOker, who there
upon handed over to him the blue
pearl and 10 pawn tickets for other
gems that once adorned the inscrutable
Buddha. MacAdams says the New
York pawnbroker never saw these
other gems, but bought the tickets
from the person who pawned the blue
pearl.
Mr. MacAdams says he engaged
passage on the iceland, due to sail
from here tomorrow. In New York
he was full of the idea that some
one with designs on the pearl was fol-
lowing him. So he bought small
pigskin case, designed to be worn on
the wrist, like the watch of a golfer
or an automobilist. In the case he
put the blue pearl and the 10 pawn
tickets and wore the case strapped
to his right wrist day and night
Taking train in New York, Mr.. Mac
Adams arrived in the South Station
here at P. M. today. He wished to
get some small change from his trous-
ers pocket and found difficulty in
hand in his pocket: the pigskin case
was in the way. He unstrapped the
case, and later, he thought. after get
III ha
strapped the case to his wrist again.
But he is not certain of this. He took
a taxicab from the station to the Ho-
tel Touraine, congratulating himself
that the blue pearl had progressed
safely so far back to Buddha's orbit
Mr.. MacAdams arrived at the hotel.
The blue pearl. recovered with in
finite pains and at enormous expense,
was gone: the pawn tickets were gone.
Never was a cleverer trick done by
East Indian iugglers-or by New
York crook.
Mr.. MacAdams said tonight that he
has put the matter in the hands of the
Pinkerton detectives here. Thew will
continue the search for the 100000
pearl. He did not report his loss to
the Boston police.
So. it will be seen, the strange story
which Mr.. MacAdams tells does not
end like Ns"The MoonstOne." the blue
pearl will not shed it's soft luster as
Ruddha's eye-for some time. at least
A blue pearl figured in New York
last summer 1t was a perfect oval,
weighed 1919 grains. was worth $l4O.-
900. 1t, too, had been stolen from the
eve OF an idol in monastery in La
hore.. in 1879.
This pearl was sought by His HIGH
ness Jagagit Singh. Rajah of Razahs.
Of Kapurthala. The sacred rem had
been traced all over the world and
f'naliv into the hands Of the 'Htn
Leopold King of the Re'e,ans Fnet
gallant King, the story ran, gave the