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From an archived newspaper article dated Friday, June 28, 1912
"BIG RUBY UNDER HIS SKIN
Burmese-Eurasian Was Used as Hiding Place for Jewels by His Father.
Surgeon Watson tells Tip about some strange smuggling, a story of Burmah rubies and diamonds that passed through this port undetected, if not unsuspected. Tho surgeon was called to a big hotel to see a gentleman with a painful arm. The patient was a yellow, slender, tawny blond, the left arm a little swollen and very painful. A hard lump was found under the skin just above the elbow, and this wa spressed on the "funny" nerve that runs behind the elbow. The lump felt so queer and unusual that the surgeon took an X-ray shot at it and found it to be a big ruby, about five carats.
This is the novel story of a man with the ruby in his arm. He was a Burmese-Eurasian (his father half white). In his childhood his father had been the chief of a band of dacoits, cut-throat highwaymen, and had skillfully and painlessly inserted a number of stones into the layer of fat under the skin of his fat boy, to make him a walking cache of secret treasure. As a youth he went to a mission school, later was graduated from a "tech" school, and was now a highly successfull businessman. The man with the arm set with rubles would allow no more examinations or X-ray pictures. There was not a trace of scar near the ruby, so skillfully had the insert settling been made. When asked what he intended to do about his hidden treasures, he said that was for his father to say— If alive.—-New York Press."
Maybe someone will get a kick out of this...
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"BIG RUBY UNDER HIS SKIN
Burmese-Eurasian Was Used as Hiding Place for Jewels by His Father.
Surgeon Watson tells Tip about some strange smuggling, a story of Burmah rubies and diamonds that passed through this port undetected, if not unsuspected. Tho surgeon was called to a big hotel to see a gentleman with a painful arm. The patient was a yellow, slender, tawny blond, the left arm a little swollen and very painful. A hard lump was found under the skin just above the elbow, and this wa spressed on the "funny" nerve that runs behind the elbow. The lump felt so queer and unusual that the surgeon took an X-ray shot at it and found it to be a big ruby, about five carats.
This is the novel story of a man with the ruby in his arm. He was a Burmese-Eurasian (his father half white). In his childhood his father had been the chief of a band of dacoits, cut-throat highwaymen, and had skillfully and painlessly inserted a number of stones into the layer of fat under the skin of his fat boy, to make him a walking cache of secret treasure. As a youth he went to a mission school, later was graduated from a "tech" school, and was now a highly successfull businessman. The man with the arm set with rubles would allow no more examinations or X-ray pictures. There was not a trace of scar near the ruby, so skillfully had the insert settling been made. When asked what he intended to do about his hidden treasures, he said that was for his father to say— If alive.—-New York Press."
Maybe someone will get a kick out of this...
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