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Show mm IN GEMS IS CATCH DFFISHERMAI! Packet of Diamonds Lost on Lusitania Is Recovered in Net of Fish. i i By lni ernational News .Servii.e. i CORIC, Dec. 1. The details have just come to light of a romant if story of a poor Irish fisherman's "catch-' of a packet of diamonc worth about Sl.'sOOO, wh.ich was w:ished out of the Lusitania after she was torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale. Tlie gems were t-unsigneJ to a Ixindbn j f:rm and were insured for 513,00 with the Union Insurance company. The company com-pany paid the claim in full and believed they had heard the last of the matter, but a welcome surprise was in store, for a month or two ego they received a letter1 stating that the diamonds had been recovered re-covered and that tlie ownrs had much pUasure in refunding the JL3.U00. It seerr.e tha t an Irishman had found the packet of gen;s among a quantity of fish he had hauled up in his net, and had thus mad'- the most valuable catch of his life. Yithout telling anyone of his lucky find, he s-nt the diamonds to London as an ordinary postal packet, where inquiries were made and their , ownership traced. The honesty of the fisherman has been rewarded by a gift of some hundreds of pounds. |