DRAMATIC SEQUEL
STATE JEWELS RECOVERED,
(Received 9.50 a.m.) DELHI, January 30.
The alleged fraud, perpetrated on the Maharaja of Bharatpur, one of India’s leading ruling chiefs, had a dramatic sequel. Anxious to raise a. largo sum of money, the Maharaja negotiated with a Calcutta Anglo-Indian agent to dispose of State jewels valued at £70,000. The agent in whoso custody the jewels wex-e placed gave the Maharaja’s agent two cheques for them. The cheques were dishonoured axxd the agent arrested. A bag was found, but no jewels.
A report of the disappearance of the jewels was read in newspapers by a youth, a friend of the arrested man, whom, he recalled had left a bag with him to keep safely, saying “it contained paper's.” The youth took the bag to the police, who found the jewels intact. — A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1927, Page 5
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