VALUABLE JEWELS LOST IN MOTOR CAR FIRE
RESULT OF COLLISION TO AVOID CYCLIST. OCCUPANTS RESCUED TFITK DIFFICULTY. , EXPLOSION OP PETROL (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 20. With her best jewels, worth about sixty thousand sterling, including a diamond tiara and three perfect strings of pearls, Lady Glanely left Newmarket in a motor car to poin her husband, a racehorse owner, at Bath. The car skidded at Royston ([Hertfordshire) in an attempt! to avoid a cyclist and overturned, catching fire. Lady Glanely, the chauffeur and a maid were rescued with difficulty, the jewels remaining in the car. The petrol exploded, and some scattered jewels were recovered, otherwise' they were almost a total loss. The cyclist sustained a fractured skull and leg) and is in a critical condition.—Times Cable.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 5, 21 December 1928, Page 7
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