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DIAMONDS RECOVERED.Detective Foster Sueeeeds in Locating Lost Diamonds Valuedat $900.00.Detective ,T. R. Foster ot tlnefcity has just succeeded in unravelling a mystery surrounding the theft of a valuable diamond brooch. About two years ago a detect*.ve bureau in Min-uea|»dis wrote to Mr. Foster stating that a Minneapolis woman had a diamond brooch stolen, with thirteen stones in it and valued at $900.00.The servant in the household was suspected and it was learned that she had left for Manitoba. Mr. Foster paid little attention to the nuthal at first, but on a visit to .Winnipeg he saw a private detective working on the case. From the time the ‘jewelry was stolen until the time of it* recovery the brooch has travelled over many parts of Canada. After coo-skJeHag the matter for some time, Mr. , Foster decided to try for the re ward of $.00 debars, and accordingly paida visit to the capital. With a photo that had leen sent him from the bureau aud a little information as tofthe j thief's probable wiierealiouts, he visited around but could not get any trace of the woman. On his way home to Brandon he recognised a person tallying with the photo bidding farewell to a gentleman who got on the same train. From the conductor Mr. Foster learned that the man had a through ticket to Vancouver. A detective in the best was instructed to look alter the man, and wrote a letter to the effect that the ftavii had left for Dawson City. Mr. Foster was about to give up the search for either the man or the woman but fi-nally kept on typclng them both until this week when lis active brain traced the diamond* to a woman living in sea tic* wIkj imu jrorrhrt.*-eel them without knowing that the brooch had been stolen or what Was tt*e value of the diamond*. Mr. *Fos-l»lfiiorfowdttT.hxmwccter iw to be rougra tulated on |ii» SuC-• --- - It is not known whether tbereward is still open, Imt the lawful owner of tire brooch Is well Able to to recompense any person for the trouble of recovering it.** a iintcdiklatOfi lt;a1r:35-67-
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Brandon Western Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jan 18, 1900
Page 3
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Kenneth J.
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