DANISH CROWN JEWELS
A somewhat unpleasant experience befell a party of British tourists from the steamer Atlantis while inspecting in Copenhagen the collection of Crown jewels in the Castle of Rosenborg.
The guide accidentally touched the glass of the cabinet, or otherwise set off the defensive measures installed for the protest of the jewels. There was an instantaneous and deafening outburst of howling sirens and jangling bells, and then the entire cabinet sank through the floor, leaving a gaping hole.
All the doors of the apartment automatically closed, and the attendant in the room, drawing his revolver, commanded all present to stand still. Car loads of police, who had been automatically alarmed, rushed up in fast cars and surrounded the castle.
Explanations finally resulted in the party being released, and all felt filled with respect for the remarkable efficiency of the system of guarding Denmark's regalia.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3370, 26 September 1931, Page 7
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