JEWEL THEFT IN FRANCE
CORSICAN’S STORY AT TRIAL (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) PARIS, July 7. A self-confessed Corsican gangster, Barhelemy Ruberti, told a crowded Court at Aix-en-Provence today, that Major Lindsay Watson, a hero of the two world wars, had no part in robbing the Begum Aga Khan of jewels valued at £200,000. Watson is among those on trial on charges arising from the hold-up of the Eegum in a daring daylight coup four years ago. The prosecutor described him yesterday as the main “tip-off” man to the gang about the Eegum’s movements. Ruberti admitted today that he was one of the five men who held up the Aga Khan’s car on the Cannes-Nice road in 1949, but he declared: “I regret to see Watson accused. He is not involved.”
Ruberti named “Big Roger” Senanedj as the instigator of the robbery. The police believed that Senanedj was murdered by an accomplice to keep him silent, but Ruberti said today that Senanedj was alive although his whereabouts were unknown.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27088, 10 July 1953, Page 6
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