Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-12
HOODOO Ring
THAT PARTED
FOND HEARTS

"a VIEW YORK.-When Frank M.
Laid stood on the end Of the
iron pier at Atlantic City the
i Y other day with Miss jeanette
Carberry and threw carat
and a half solitaire diamond ring as
far as he could into the waters of
the Atlantic some of the spectators
thought him insane. But as the ring
flashed and sank Laid turned and
said, Thank heaven it's gone" and
Miss Carberry sighed happily.
The act probably dispensed for ali
time with the hoodooed engagement
ring that four times caused Mr.. Laid
to figure in broken engagements and
which five times he placed upon the
finger of Miss Carberry, where now
a new cut diamond flashes. Unless
some luckless loving couple dallying
in the sand at Atlantic City some time
dig up the solitaire the hoodoo Will re-
main with the mermaids.
The story of the Ill luck that has
followed the ring and it's peculiar ad-
ventures leads toward the realm or
uncanny mysteries. No explanation
yet has been offered, no theory
evolved beyond that the whole thing
must have been the work of some hui
man enemy of either Ladd or his
flancee.
Nothing Extraordinary in Principals.
Mr.. Laid is New Yorker; that is,
he has a business in New York but
resides in Brooklyn, down in the Pros
pect park south district. Miss Car
berry lives in the same neighborhood
with her parents, and until two years
ago was assistant buyer for big New
York wholesale millinery establish
mcnt.
Mr.. Laid has a small apartment and
takes breakfast with family named
Brescher, consisting of the father,
mother, and one child, boy of
twelve. While on friendly terms with
the Breschers, it cannot be said that
Ladd is at all intimate with them. He
sees them at breakfast, but seldom at
any other time, as he lunches in New
York and usually dimes in town and
returns to his apartment during the
evening.
Their First Meeting.
Laid met Miss Carberry in the fall
Of 1909. They fell in love with each
other and their engagement was an
nounced in January, the date Of their
marriage being set for June 27. Evil
IDENTIFY Ladd felt tolerably certain that
he would be accepted even before he
made the formal proposal, as he adj
mits that the week before they be-
came engaged he gave an order for a
pure white diamond solitaire and or
dered 1t set in high ring Of old red
Guinea gold.
Miss Carberry first put on the ring
the evening of January when she &C.
copied Mr.. Ladd's proposal. She was
much pleased with the ring itself, be-
sides she seemed unusually happy and
wore the ring proudly. The following
Friday Mr.. Laid called to take her
to the theater She wore the ring
and distinctly remembered that after
Mr.. Laid kissed her goodnight and
started away she turned out the light,
and as she started to her boudoir she
stopped on the staircase and kissed
the ring The following morning the
ring was missing.
The Ring Disappears.
Miss Carberry made hasty search
OF her room and her bed, then sum-
moned her mother, informed her of
the loss, and told her to take every
thing in the room and hallway to
pieces and find the ring, as Mr.. Ladd
was going to call that evening and
she would not want him to know. Her
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