Dublin Castle Mystery .

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 10

Dublin Castle Mystery .

"* Two months ago the submarine wire tingled with the exciting news of the mysterious disappearance of the Irish Crown jewels from Dublin Castle. The , precious baubles are valued al some £40,000. -Night and day they were guarded by two armed sentries. Yet they were taken #ut of a safe, with the aid of a key, just before King Edward's recent visit to the G-reen Isle. Like Miss Kilmansqgg's courtship, it was l a strange and painful mystery '. It made a few days' sensation. Then the story ended—' the cold chain of" silence ' suddenly circled' Tt round about. But from the other side of the Atlantic comes a" story which, if true, would indicate that the Irish Crown jewels have been more or less in the habit of vanishing like the fairy gold of Ireland or the treasures of the Nibelungjenlied. We quote from a copy of the Chicago ' Record-Herald ', which publishes a special cab?e despatch frcm its Dublin correspondent. The story told by-the 'RecordHerald ' runs in part as follows:— ' The safe had been opened with a key. To find out how that, key "was obtained and who got it kept the police very busy for a week. Then they found out, suddenly dropped the quest,.- and became strangely ..reticent. They had traced Ihe jewels to London and to the shop of a. pawnbroker. The money lender told them' that this was by no ir cans the first' time that he had had tfiem pledged, and he showed records to prove it. Moreover, he made no secret of the fact that he had - taken them in pawn from a high Government official. This time that official was taken by surprise by the King's suddenly announced visit and could not raise the money to reoeem them in order to restore them as formerly to their safe. Since theTr-he has scraped enougti cash together and the jewels have been returned to the Castle. The scandal is being hushed up on account of the important office held by the person who pawned -the jewels. 1 We give Ihe story as. we find it, without note or comment.