MR GLADSTONE'S IVORIES
THEFT FROM HAWARDEN CASTLE Thomas James llogers, aged fifty-six, a greyhound trainer, was found guilty at Maidstone, Kent, recently, of receiving eighteen ivory carvings, part of the famous Gladstone collection, stolen from Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Patrick Murphey, a dealer, who was charged with him, was acquitted. Both men were arrested at Rogers’s house at Gravesend, where a man went ostensibly to purchase the ivories, hue in fact he was acting under instructions from the police. Rogers said that when he arrived homo°oh April 10 ho found Murphey there with the ivories. He did not know they were stolen, and only put Murphey in touch with a dealer. Miirphc.v’s defence was that he went to bnv, not to sell, and rover at any time had the ivories in his possession.
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Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 7
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139MR GLADSTONE'S IVORIES Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 7
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