The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-24
QUEEN OF SIAM HAS
HER JEWELSSTOLEN
Recovered After Long Hunt
By Detectives
DOGS FOR TOILETTE
Must Match Color of Paris Women's
Dress-The Celebrated. Dog,
Raoul, Dies of Broken
Heart
by PAUL vILLIERs

By RAUL v 1LbifftS
Paris. June Especial accord
ing to a dispatch from Bangkok. the
crown Jewels of the Queen of Siam
have been recovered after a hunt which
took in the better part of Europe and
Asia. The gems were got In the rear
room of a shop at Colombo. Paul de
Boseck, the Frenchman who was ar
rested in London charged with trying
to dispose of the Queens pearls. has
been sentenced to Bangkok to two
years Imprisonment.
The King of Siam. desiring to be up
to-date, sent an officer of the court to
London and Paris to have some of the
royal Siamese heirlooms reset and new
Jewels added to the collection. At con-
expense new ornaments were
made. and fine present of rare pearls
purchased from a London jeweler on
the way to Siam the royal messenger
was held up and relieved of his rich.
The gems vanished. Their
recovery is thought to be more mat
ter of luck than anything else. One of
the detectives, stopping off at Colombo,
went sightseeing. His suspicious were
aroused in the shop of a Singhelese
merchant through overwhelming sntaches
of a conversation carried on in French.
his own tongue. Search followed and
revealed the hiding place of the fence"
A village near Dillon in the Vosges has
given an Illuminating proof that country
children are not necessarily dun and UNI
nf
the infant children were dispensing when
motor car killed fowl belonging to
the master The auto was sweeping by
at such swift pace that all the indig-
nant master could see was a cloud of
dust and the corpse OF his rooster. The
following morning a mite of years ap-
preached his desk with a serial num-
Der carefully jotted down on scrap of
paper and the explanatory remark:
Monsieur, the car that killed the
cock"
Dogs to match ones toilet is the latest
fad among the women of Paris In the
Bots a few evenings ago one of the love-
Hest women of this city of lovely women
appeared with two tiny dogs. one black
and one white, and a silk frock which
was itself a Study In black and white
~ -. mo-. III. ,,,.,, oaa, 800.
plumes. Inc correct tning Is 70 carry
the dog or dogs In the hollow of the
arm.
retired commission agent who wore
IN b,s buttonbo1e .tba rihhor NJ tbe 70
~,
e'oh oi iloiot, was hilieo ny pass
ing auto in the streets of Paris. Suit was
started by a relative. asking damages
against the owner of the car The de-
60 .a,,..s ~. ~. A.,
'e"se au'Nts'eu 'aa eeau mon
knight Oh the Legion OF Honor Out
entered the plea that he was "a man of
no value, The counsel who raised this
remarkable point is himself an OFFICER of
the legion. fact which was brought to
the attention Of the court by the LAWYER
for the plaintiff. The Judge marked his
displeasure at the suggestion that the
ribbon counted for nothing by awarding
damages of sNoo-a substantial penalty in
the Partisan courts
French feminists are e,ated bv the an
nouncement made that M Leon hour
geois the minister of nnhllc works. has
ratified the appointment of a woman to
the second grade of emnlovment in the