TREASURE ON SEA FLOOR
DISCOVERY OFF VIRGINIA FORMER MEXICAN ROYALTY SAFE LIFTED TO SURFACE BELIEVED TO HOLD JEWELS i3y Telegraph—Presb Association—Copyright (Received August 23, 8.35 p.m.) NEW YORK. Aug. 22 Fabulous treasures of Mexico's former Royal personages are reported to have been recovered from tho floor of tho sea off Virginia. They had lain there for 20 years since tho Ward liner Merida sank. Captain Bowdoin, a noted salvager, reports the hoisting of a safe believed to contain the crown jewels of tho illstarred Maximilian and his Empress, Carlotta. The jewels of Maximilian have been a legend of Mexico since the sixties, when Napoleon sent a Hapsburg and his bride to rule the virgin Empire. Maximilian went before a firing squad and tho Empress became insane from shock, suffered a loss of memory and identity and died a few years ago in obscurity.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21578, 24 August 1933, Page 9
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