TAPESTRY THIEVES
LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR USED. CUTTING IT UP. LONDON, November 2. Detectives discovered the valuable tapestries recently stolen from the Palace of Versailles at the home of Charles Prosper, a Communist, who was arrested. One of the tapestries had been cut into 12 pieces. x , Prosper told the police that he and a man named Nouvain, who has also been arrested, broke into the Palace of Versailles on a Sunday, and reached the first floor window by climbing a lightning conductor. They cut a hole in the glass with a diamond, lifted the catch easily, tore the tapestries from their frames, rolled, them up, and threw them out of the window. . „ They expected that the loud noise they made would have alarmed the night watchman, hut after waiting a few minutes they slid down the lightning conductor, carried the tapestries away on their backs, and hid them in the cellar of the house in which Nouvain lived. Officials of Gobelin tapestry factory declare that they can restore the dismembered tapestrv without leaving a trace of the work. 'Expert workmen weave together all the severed threads. It is not the first time that such work has been, carried out in such a way as to defy detectives.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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