AJAX -- A stolen pendant containing an infant’s ashes can be returned anonymously to an Ajax UPS box, says the man who owns the box.

The pendant was stolen Monday when Lorraine and Dave Hutchison’s Clements Road East home was broken into during the day. The couple made an emotional appeal for the return of the locket on Tuesday.

Lucas Lane resident Mark Butt has known the couple for several years and wanted to do something to help so he offered up his UPS box, number 318, at the Ajax UPS store at 75 Bayly St. W.

Mr. Butt suggests putting the pendant in an envelope, writing the box number on it and dropping it into the mail slot at the store.

“Turn around and walk away no one will ever know the difference,” he said, adding there are no cameras in the store.

The circular pendant, on a 16-inch silver chain, is about the size of a toonie and three-quarters-of-an-inch thick. Leaves and branches are engraved on both sides of the pendant. It’s soldered shut.

The Hutchisons lost their son six years ago when he was just 16 days old. Mr. Hutchison placed the ashes in the pendant so that Ms. Hutchison could have her son with her when she ran in marathons.

On Tuesday, the Hutchisons said they don’t care how they get the pendant back, as long as they get it back.

“He’s already been taken from us once, now he’s been taken away again,” said Mr. Hutchison.

Police have canvassed pawnshops and neighbours but, so far, there’s been no result.