New Britain herald., 1930-11-28
POLICE GET RING
 REPORTED STOLEN
Girl "BorroWS" It From New Male Friend and Disappears

The next time Joseph Terranova of 193 Broad street. Windsor, buys himself a diamond ring, he no doubt will take better care of it than he did the last one he owned. He will also probably look upon strange girls who wish to try it on with q greater degree of suspicion than h. regarded q fair maiden who cajoled him into allowing her to try his last on her finger and then calmly walked away without taking the trouble to return the ring.
 Terranova learned his lesson in q singular though costly manner.
 He told Sergeant StadIcr that he was driving south along Main street in Hartford yesterday when he was accosted by young girl who asked him 10 drive her to New Britain. He assented and the two started toward this city. They had not been on the way long before the girl unfolded tale to her companion 10 the effect that she was coming 10 this city to collect 5 from a girl friend who was in her debt for that amount.
 Terranova was not loath 10 drive the young lady to her destination and he told the police that after arriving at the designated address the girl left him only to return later with the information that no one had answered her knock on the door.
 Getting into the auto again she directed her courteous escort along several other streets until they came upon another auto parked in front of a house. Telling her escort that the machine looked like one in which her friend often went riding she suggested that they wait awhile in the hope that she might see her debtor friend.
 Still under the influence of his tender thoughts for the girls well fare he told the police that he con- sented. Noting for the first time a large diamond ring he was wearing on his finger, the girl asked him if she might try it on one of her own dainty fingers. Seeing no harm in this arrangement Tcrranova told Sergeant Stadlcr that he accedcd 10 her wish.
 The girl was profuse in her com plimentary remarks about the ring. She was rather surprised 10 learn how well it fitted her, Tcrranoya told the sergeant.
 With the knowledge that the ring was such fine fit the girl also sud- denly became aware that the auto they were watching was not the one | she believed it to be.
 Informing Terranova of this fact she further imposed on his good na- ture in requesting that he drive her to a drug store that she might tclc phone her friend. This Terranova . gladly did The girl left and return , cd short time later with the ill., ! formation that her friend was not at ! home at the time but was expected | in about an hour.
 Paving nothing in particular to do or no particular place to go Ter ranova agreed to spend the short time with girl while she was waiting the return of her friend. The two drove about the city as the girl directed and finally came i to the railroad station. At this point | she told him that it was necessary 1. to go into the station and she insist l I, ranova promised that he would.
 He waited and waited but the girl l did not return. He told the police | that he saw her enter the railroad 1. station but could not say when she 1. left.
 After having heard the report of |, the disappearance of the girl and l the ring Sergeant Stadler accom- l panied the man on a trip about the l. city on a vain hunt.
 Sergeant Thomas J. Feeney work 1, ing on a description of the girl as | the only clue recovered the ring to- day. The police did not divulge the i name of the girl.
 The girl is alleged to have told . the police that when she entered the | railroad station she net some ac- ! quaintance and was delayed longer l than she had expected to be. When i she returned to the place where !. Terranova had been parked she ! found that he had gone.
 She further told the police that she had been seeking him since.