SMUGGLED JEWELS.
Treasure said to be worth a hundred thousand pounds is reported to have been found in a cottage a Jassy, in Roumania. The police had occasion to pay a visit to the dwelling of a peasant woman in search of proofs of a treasonable conspiracy. They found several well-made metal trunks, but instead of the papers they expected these contained an immense quintity of jewels and gold and silver ornaments. The woman, who was arrested, declared that they were brought to her house by her daughter, since dead, who was servant in the employ of the late Prince Nicolai Gliika, at the end of the seventies. The Prince died after an operation in Paris, and in the confusion that reigned in his palace the trunks were smuggled away. The woman and her daughter had been afraid to sell the more important of the valuables for fear of detection, so these had remained untouched in the cottage for thirty years. As far as the police can tell, this remarkable story appears to be true.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
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175SMUGGLED JEWELS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
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