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Show RECOVER DlillS BY MEREST CHANCE Negro Arrested in San Francisco Fran-cisco Furnishes Surprise for the Police. SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. A chance arrest of a negro roustabout of a travel-j travel-j Ing circus in Berkeley today led to the recovery of a rope of diamonds valued at $100,000. for which tho police of the Pacific Pa-cific coast have been malting a secret search tho past week. The diamonds are the property of Mrs. Frank G. Hogan. 'wife of a wealthy and prominent resident of ' Pasadena. Mrs. Hognu lost the diamonds while attending attend-ing tho circus In Pasadena. When eho left her home for the circus Mrs. Hognh took the diamonds with her, fearing to leave them In her house while no one was at home. The costly Jewels woro tucked Into a cuff of her coat. On her return from the circus, Mrs. ilogan found that the diamonds were gone. Her fright at the loss was ao great that she did not tell her husband, but the pollco woro notified. They had been picked up In the caw-dust caw-dust of the circus ring by the roustabout, who goes under the namo of Lew Fields. The circus hand- got Into a dispute with a fellow worker at Berkeley yesterday and was arrested. "Shake him down and see Avhat's lie got in his coat," whispered one of th men with whom Fields had been quarreling. quar-reling. Tho search revealed a rope of seventy-five seventy-five perfectly cut diamonds. Fields ha3 been kept In custody by the police, but no cbargo has been made against him. He admitted finding tho diamonds at Pa?adena, but ?ald ho had no Idea, of their value. |