Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1913 — GEM PACKAGE IS OVERLOOKED [ARTICLE]

GEM PACKAGE IS OVERLOOKED

Diamonds Valued at $3,000 Lost from Express Wagon Finally Found by Driver. Baker, Ore.—While $3,000 worth of diamonds lay in the middle of Center street Express Messenger Ruqsell Browning passed tbe busiest half hour of his life. When he was not wiping the sweat from his brow he was searching the pavement The diamonds were in a package consigned to a local jeweler from ai Chicago firm. Instead of placing them in his chest with the other sealed packages. Browning threw them carelessly in the bottom of the wagon. When he stopped to deliver the package at its destination it was missing. Cold beiads of sweat stood out upon his brow when he thought of the loss.