Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-09
GEM OF Ill LUCK
BRINGS FABULOUS
PRICE AT A SALE
Stolen From Sacred Temple In
India, 1t Has Been In Pos
session of Many Persons
of Renown.

Washington, Special: The famous
the most beautiful gems in the world,
been purchased for $500, 900 by Ed
ward b. Mclean. of this city, from Il
firm of jewellers OF New. York and Paris.
The gem, which is sapphire blue,
weighs 33A carats, M once belonged
to III. T. Hope.
The jewel is believed to have beer.
u from the large blue diamond.
Weighing in the rough 1l2A earats,
sold by T%avernier to Louis XIV. which
disappeared in the troubles of 1892. The
diamond was brought to this country
from Paris about -four months ago.
Mr.. Mclean, the new owner of the
diamond. is fully acquainted with the
said last night that he was not a bit
superstitions. Society is specializing
whether Mrs. Mclean will have the
courage to wear the gem. She was the
former Evelyn Walsh. daughter of the
late Thomas i. Walsh. the multi-mil-
lionaire. and is the mother of Washing
tion's 500, 600, 900 baby.
Long Trail Of Ruin.
The gem has left ruin and misery in
Its wake from the day ii left the hands
of an Indian potentate down to the
present time. Young Mrs. Mclean is
as fearless of superstition as her hus-'
band, wherefore Washington society
may shortly enjoy the big sensation OF
seeing the Hope diamond shedding it's
brilliant ray in the circles of the elect.
The sensational history of the Hope
diamond began about the middle of the
18th century, when Andreas Tavernier,
a French traveller. stole it from one OF
the sacred temples of India and sold it
to King Louis XIV.
King Louis had the beautiful gem cut
and polished and as a mark of favor
bestowed it upon his favorite. the beau
tful Nine. de Montespan.
The superstition connected with the
Jewel commenced at that time. Taver-
nier was torn to pieces by wild dogs
while on a hunting trip. Nine. Monte
pan lost every vestige OF authority and
was abandoned by the king.
Marie A%ntoinette Had Il.
mond by Louis XVI. Shortly after the
presentation France was torn by revo-
luton and Princess De Lambelle, who
begged the jewel from Marie Antoinette,
murdered in the streets of Paris
while wearing it. Marie Antoinette was
guillotined later. +,
For nearly half a century nothing
was heard of it. Then it bobbed up in
the hands of an English jeweler named
Eliason. Eliason declared he had
bought 1t from a Frenchman in Lon-
don. who was dying of consumption. It
about this time that the jewel
came into the possession Of the Hope
family. Eliason sold 1t to the London
banker, Henry Thomas Hope.
Hope died o afterwards and the
diamond passed to his grandson, Lord
Francis Hope, who married May Yohe,
the actress and gave her the diamond
which she wore on the stage. May Yohe
o1a~nH xryfk6 Hf~f n,k~-~ 7.-1N-
Strong. and soon afterwards the ia
nous diamond was sold to help pay Sir
Francis debts.
It was bought by Simon Frankel. a
New York jeweler. Frankel nearly
failed in business Immediately after,
heard Of the superstition connected
with the diamond and hastily sold It at
a great loss. Jacques Colot, a French
broker. was the purchaser Of the hoo
doc gem at a price Of approximately
$4,000 900.
Princes Tragic Fate.
Colot sold 1t to a Russian, Prince
Ivan Kanitovski. Kanitovski lent it to
a vaudeville actress in Paris. Her lover,
mad with jealousy, shot her at a per-
two days later and a week
after the prince was found a~ssassinated
by revolutfOnists. The jeweler broker
Colot did not escape the influence of
the gem, for after a weeks brooding
the deaths of the actress and the
prince he went insane.
Abdul Hamid, the deposed sultan of
Turkey. was text to come in possession
of the gem. He was deposed and inn
prisoned soon afterwards.
Then In 1909 the diamond was re-
ported to have sunk when a vessel was
wrecked Of h coast of Singapore. The
diamond, however. was found in the
possession OF a New York ieweler De-
Is, 1910. It was intact, in spite
Of rumors that 1t had been cut up and
sold.