LATE HEVER CASTLE THEFT
POLICE AND DEALERS PUZZLED (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. The police and dealers are puzzled about the purnose of thieves who broke into Colonel Astor’s Hever Castle. Dealers in. London to-day said there could be no value in the art market for the objects stolen. Lady Astor's mink coat was the only piece of any monetary value. The police at first assumed that the only possible purpose of the raid on the castle must have been to secure a small specified number of objects coveted by some extraordinarily enthusiastic but unscrupulous collector. Dealers emphasise that there would not even be a black market for the missing-relics and curios. ' The police have some leads. A cigarette lighter believed to have been dropped by the thief has been found, and a party of young women, who saw the Rolls Royce car used by the thieves, are helping the investigators. The thieves, although they threatened the watchman, treated him with all consideration. They laid him on a mat and put a pillowunder his head, but the watchman, nevertheless, is very “fed up.” He has left the castle and gone to Tunbridge Wells to • “get away from it all.” . .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1946, Page 7
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