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Show FOUND AFTER FORTY YEARS Discovery of Ring United Again Two Loving Hearts. A strango romance ot a lost engagement en-gagement ring nnd of Its recovery forty )ears later on a turtle, of tho renewal of tho engagement on tho recovery of tho ring, and of a happy marriage ensuing, hns eomo to light at Augusta, (la. Fort) )cnrs ago, In 1SCC, John Martin, Mar-tin, then n constructing engineer on the Grand Trunk railroad, and Freda Olmstead the belle of Augusta, were betrothed nnd ns a pledge John placed upon her linger a gold ring Almost Immediately he went awny on nn inspection tour In his nbsencp Miss Olmstead went for a boat ride with a )oung man on a neighboring lake While they wero out they tnught a small turtle and the girl sportlvel) slipped off iier on-gngenunt on-gngenunt ring nnd slipped it over Its bend A moment later tho turtle slipped from her hand Into the wnter and disappeared When Martin returned nnd learned of the Incident his Jealousy was aroused He doubted her stor) As n result the engagement wns broken off, and Mnrtln returned to Germany, his nnttve lnnd. Lnst spring ono of n fishing pnrty. on tho lake captured n turtle and found a diamond ring encircling Its neck. It vns the ring that Miss Olmstead Olm-stead had lost Sho communicated tho circumstances of Its recovery to Martin, who had remained unmarried and ns a hnppy sequel they wero mnr-rled mnr-rled In tho Georgia city. Miss Olmstend was 1C years old (Then sho was betrothed. Mrs. John Martin was CC )enrs old on April 21. Tho bridegroom ls 71. Ho exhibits many )outhful trnlts In talking of his lovo romance. Ho ls tho only surviving sur-viving member of his family and ls solo owner of nn extenslvo estnto In Germnn) For man) yenrs ho was engaged en-gaged as a builder In Iloldelberc, his natlvo city |
