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Show HIS DILEMMA LIKE SHYLOCli'S Jeweler Must Get Diamond Dia-mond From Appendix at His Risk. - OMAHA. May 30. Like Shylock" and his pound of flesh, Tinley L. Coombs has been placed by the courts In the dilemma of not being able to claim his property awarded by the judge except at the risk of killing a woman. In this Instance the pound of flesh Is a $300 diamond in the appendix ap-pendix of a self-confessed shoplifter. Mae Thomas swallowed the diamond Saturday In the retail store of T. L. Coombs A Co.. Jewelers. From a tray of diamonds on - the counter the woman removed re-moved the handsomest stone and con-, ctaled it in her mouth. To avoid being found with the diamond on ber person when searched she swallowed It. Fearing appendicitis, the Thomas . woman confessed con-fessed this to the police, who confirmed the story by taking an X-ray photograph. The diamond Is yours." said the police Judge to the Jeweler yesterday. "Take it. but if you resort to a surgical operation against the prisoner's will and she dies you can be held for murder." The surgeons say the diamond cannot be recovered without an operation, as the X-ray showed it to be lodged in the intestines. in-testines. About the"only chance Coombs has of recovering his 1300 diamond is that the Thomas woman will develop an attack of appendicitis. Symptoms already have been rotf d. |