Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-07-24

fEmSH@8 Egf\ in front of Friendship, the Mclean
A8M W washington home, the supersti-
MO touS people of the country shook
their heads with on "I-told-you-so"
O air and invariably they were heard
to exclaim: "The 'evil-eye' Hope
s%5arnozAS rs active again!
Presumably almost everybody has heard of the
43ones diamond and of the long history of mystery,
iuisforftH1e. shattered hopes, blasted fortunes and
eIaitssS DEATHS which is declared to center about
Eae ffsalG1S sem- Suffice it to say that the Hope
staaasssas3 is a sapphire-bIue stone of 44A karats:
seeaG IL made its appearance in France in 1868:
FEaaf te Is believed by the superstitious to have the
evH eSe;" that its published history, which is
yerofsahty largely imaginary, would seem to bear
out ftS evil Influence on the fortunes of IFS many
%9SEnefss and that the parents of the dead how are
Gas crescent owners of the gem, so far as the
sEoFfd SU7arRs.
The ~$3hsO00.000 baby was the son of Mr.. and
Mis- Edward BeaI Mclean. He was exnectod 70
zEoaerM 4 vast fortune from his grandfathers
I&oaSa al McZean, the owner of several newspa-
EpeFs. aEad T2toHRaG II. Walsh, a millionaire mino
sopeTafsag of Colorado. He slept in a gold cradle
@he gift OF King Leopold of Belgium, a partner
fTtth Walsh IN tine famous Camp Bird gold mine
an ttAe Sgz Juan district of Colorado. He had
&fVe aaArses LII five of the finest mansions in Amer
1sca- aAe rad a pirate car, which carried him to
&at1H Eeaeh. TO California, or wherever he was to
ss"- @% &Aa1 u 1Al co2en automobiles of his own.
ArosR the moment Of his birth Vinson was IA
EzloHs as the most carefully guarded baby on earth.
A sHia14f arEay OF guards, detectives and attendants
and a c0ETrs OF doctors and nurses watched over
%1tRE n aoHrs in the day. When he was an infant
me tuaE his airings, in a baby buggy which was a
ReritahSe steel cage locked by special padlocks.
Ehis WAS one uf the precautions against kidnapers.
Tlhen came a moment when the vigilance of his
atfenfAaases s~aR relaxed. Slipping away, the boy
starhaA SsFrass the street. A "fivver'' bearing a
West Virginia license and containing three women
game along and ran him down in front Of his
hamay
y It uaYS in fG6S that Jean Baptiste Tavernier, d
French Traveller, appeared in Paris with a diamond
Of HaarE9eAoezs saxe and cOloring. Some said it had
a1eeH stKNeH1 from IT'S place among the ornaments
NE a HIndU Exas- More insisted it had been taken
4Srfm fine palace CT che Grand Moguls of Delhi.
TTNVhYvsHsE lit ca1ae from, the story places it i'm
zGedlaseay 19eerward In the possession of Louis
INV wh0 placed 1t among the crown jewels of
RrsMeTs and permitted it to be worn by Nine. de
AfeU9szEsan.
ThEas GzaG diamond is launched upon a career of
. Eli fR-tzEs and disaster and tragedy.
&C. HgTz mot long. SO runs the story, after Traver-
GAeE agid 1t Co Louis XIV for $500, 900 francs and
E barney. fnat Travernier was torn to pieces by
Naibd dogs while he was on a hunting expedition.
' Mnmu- lie Montespan's fall is part of history.
She WIS suppianted soon by Nine. de Maintenon.
At tha time tine diamond weighed 67k karats.
The ssrTy Gays that in the rough it was Of LIP
GEaEsaSG- and that the king sent it to an Amsterdam
3epgSfer no he cat and polished.
Along with other court jewels the diamond de-
sssnsietI upon tine death OF Louis XIV to Louis XIV.
IrDfiifinn permits several of his f~avorites to have
yEaszn rs and so tine lives of all of these are sup
posed fv have ended in tragedy, failure or worse.
E0Dis XII GAME into possession of the stone in
e-uRrse 0F time, and through him 1t went to Marie
4AnfoErefser who wore It, extending the same priyi-
HHgE tS ner friend, Princess de Lamballe. Genuine
history records that Marie Antoinette died on the
5zIhJnfins- and that the princess was torn to pieces
Fay b French mob and her head carried about upon
) n psSa-
: Che shnsse WIS lost sight OF about 1902. Then,
Z after d Srzn of % years the stone reappeared in
ES5S I'm the meantime the story writers again
s.rs4larefsi Es size 20 A karats. Wherever the gem
was Ms Ehcae years OF mystery, stories are numer-
GUS fndsy that 1t still was performing its mission
snf b~EfzIlkfnx lives and fortunes.
dyHe " shese accounts attributes to Daniel
Rtlasdn. q 1ewefer of London, who got the stone In
ES3A. % STORY that after 1t was supposedly stolen
3reaz e@@ <egal treasures of France by a Paris
Rose ahe zan was sold to an Amsterdam jeweler,
TygTfEzHzz Ezsx. who recut the stone to its present
diEaeasEzRs- The story goes that Hendrix, a son
0f WHifarR 2sIs. stole the Jewel from his parent,
Twhsb diaxz q ruined man. Then this record dis
1p0sgm GG Efsndrik by suicide, after which the
zhgns Ese SHf0 possession of one Francis Beau
f4aer. en- -gah0En tire story ascribes q death by star
u2fIua- IT ~as this man who sold the stone to
EEEasaEa-
FEum Eiias0n 1t passed into the ownership Of
Henry " Hope, a banker Of London, and ac-
aEslrzzA Gse nan1es under which 1t now is known.
Th& prfsss ii stated to be $4,000. 1t is not clear
akzznk ELone suffered greatly through his possession
~ ting dRzH1auds nevertheless stories are to be