Show collector in hard luck apropos of napoleon a d curious footnote to the history of the famous conqueror appeared in a new york paper under the heading bending asks police to find napoleons letter the loser of tile the letter described it as having been written by napoleon on august 18 1805 to the AuIt austrian trian general mack I 1 i on the occasion of the letters latter s defeat the french emperor in admi admiration ratio U ot of tile hie courage displayed by his tons squished opponent presented him with a handsome gold clock end and wrote a letter of appreciation to go with it the clock passed through various hands after the death of general mack and had been bought in Berl berlin ln with the authenticating letter by an amen ainer ican collector the collector lost his hl wallet containing the letter while on his way to 10 his bis home la 10 san SAD the outlook |