Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-04 | Page 8 | Young Astor Hopes to Get His Ring Back

Young Astor H Hopes pes to o Get His Ring Back NEW YORK May 4 The Thc diamond engagement rin ring that John Jacob Astor III gave to Eileen Gillespie now rests rest In a vault but he hop hopes s to g get ct n it back This Thic he made known when he returned Thursday from a a. trip around the world undertaken alter after hie hi en engagement a ement to the New NewYork NewYork York debutante was broken The ring was once the thc prop prop- erty of at Empress Eugenie and was purchased b by m my fathers father's mother after th the collapse o of the second empire Astor Actor said M My father never used It I inherited inherited in- in it from him Now v its it's gone but I hope it will be re re- turned When I Gillespie the ring she was under 18 and her parents felt justified in placing it in a vault He estimated the value of the ring at more than Mrs Gillespie and her daughter daugh- daugh ter declined to comment