JEWEL ROBBERY
BARONET'S MANSION £30,000 TO £50,000 CAT BURGLARS ESCAPE WEALTHY GUESTS' LOSS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Dec. 26 While the guests, including many wealthy and well-known society people, were in the drawing room after dinner on Christmas Eve, cat hurglars climbed into the first floor bedrooms of the lonely mansion near Luton, Bedfordshire, of Sir Felix Cassel, K.C. ' They escaped with jewellery worth between £30,000 and £50,000. The guests are not sure how much jewellery they had with them. Sir Felix Cassel, who was created a baronet in 1920. was called to the Bar in 1894. He was a member of the London County Council from 1907 to 1910 and represented West St. Pancras in Parliament from 1910 to 1916. From 1916 lo 1934 lie was Judge Advocate General. He was married in 1908 to Lady Helen Grinston, daughter of the third Karl of Yerulam.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22922, 28 December 1937, Page 9
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