WALLACE’S SWORD
THEFT OF HISTORIC WEAPON
United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, November 9
Four masked men, on being informed the way to the Wallace Monument, near Stirling, stole Sir .William Wallace’s gigantic twohanded sword. William Kidd, the '7O-vear-ol<| caretaker, opened the main door in response to knocking. The men told Kidd they were Scottish 'Nationalists, and said : “We have come for the sword.”
. They locked Kidd in his room and then Jclimbed to the third flour, smashed the glass case containing the sword, and escaped in a car. The sword was transferred to the monument in 1888 from Dumbarton Castle, where it had lain since W allace wag captured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1936, Page 5
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