STOLEN ART TREASURES RECOVERED
Rc.-eivcd Mondav, 7.5 p.m. LOXDOX, July 7. A policemun cyciing 011 his lieat at Hyde, ( li.'siiire, found stacked in a gatev.ay mosi of the vanished £10,000 art tri*auri"- which belonged to the late l.ouis ( 'ari ier says tlie I)aily Exjiress. They were paeked in half a do/en tea diesis t ?> . 1 ei 4 1 1 1 smaller lioxes, tlie cont • • t, 1 - iu.'liiiiing ilozens of silver salvers, porrehtin ligures, and big silver wine coolers. Tlie treasun's were brought to Euglaml from France in 1939 aml liidden iu tlie gnrage at Ingmire 1 1 all. Sed bergh, Yorkshire, wliieh, almost lhrmighout the war, was requisitioned by the ariny and surrounded by liarbed wire and sentries night and day. Last Xovemlier w lien ('artier's executors went to collect tlie treasures tliev found mu uy eases empty. Recently police in quiries were in' ensilled and apparenllv the t liieves deeided to abandon the lool as too rara and' eostly for disposal lli rough doiibtful cliannels.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 July 1946, Page 5
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