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A LOST BAG containing $50,000 worth of jewels was
returned to a local jeweller Friday afternoon by an honest
North Vancouver businessman.

“¥ can’t believe it,” John Ware
said. “‘! thought it was gone for
good, This is like Christmas in
November.”’

On Thursday afternoon John
Ware lost what he said was his
own life savings and some valuable
customer property after he placed
a bag containing an estimated

$50,000 worth of sapphires, gold,
diamonds and other jewelry on the
roof of his blue 1978 Mustang at
about 11:40 a.m.

“‘t was loading the car and I was
in a hurry,’’ Ware said. ‘I forgot

the bag and drove off with it on
the roof.” .

When Ware arrived at his
Pemberton Avenue jewelry shop,
the bag was gone and the 28-
year-old goldsmith was suddenly
struck with the horror of what had
happened.

A subsequent frantic retracing
of his route failed to turn up the
missing bag and the uninsured
jewels.

But on

Friday, Michael

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Christmas
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Duplissie, the 29-year-old owner of
D & S Eavestroughing Ltd., called
Ware to say he had found the beg
near his house at Fourth Street and
St. Andrews Avenue.

Duplissie said he tracked the

safe
driving
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because I’m an honest guy.’’

A jubilant Ware paid Duplissie a
$1,000 reward late Friday after-
noon and the two, who live on the
same block, but do not know each
other, shared a celebratory beer in

PHOTO OF NORTH VANCOUVER JEWELLER: SEE PAGE 3

jeweller down through a newspa-
per classified ad run by Ware and
returned the foot because he knew
how much it meant to Ware ‘‘and

Ware's jewelry shop.

Duplissie said he would use the
reward money to take his girlfriend
on a holiday.

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

WITH CAMERAS rolling, cameramen film an explosion that sent
a dummy skyward on the set of Airwolf I. The episode, A Piece of §
Cake, was being filmed at North Vancouver’s Cleveland Data.
Three special effects technicians worked on this particular explo-
sion scene. See stories, page three.

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