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Show $10,000 PEARL WAS LOST Absent-Minded Attorney Put It In His Pocket and Forgot About It. Now York. A $10,000 pink pearl, ono of tho most beautiful of Ub typo In exlstonco, was lost in Part IV of the Bupromo court, whoro it wns tho bono of contention botweon a rich Jewelry Ann and a society woman. Bailiffs crouched under chairs looking for it on tho floor; lawyers pawed nbout among papers on their long desk In Boarch of It, It waB tho gom for whoso possession Ludwlg NUson & Co. have been suing Mrs. Jules J. Vatablo, who was, before hor marriage, MIsb Eliza both C. Stokes of Tuxedo. Ludwlg Nisson declared it had boon stolon from him in 1907 by J. Edward Iloock, who had sold it In San Francisco, Fran-cisco, and demanded that tho pearl bo returned to him. Mrs. Vatablo, having hav-ing bought it in good faith, naturally would not return it. Hence tho Biilt. After a thorough search of tho courtroom court-room had beon mado Mr. Kellogg, Mrs. Vatablo'B attorney, discovered that he had absent-rnindodly put tho pearl In his pockot. |