ROYAL TREASURE
CROWN JEWELS OF MEXICO
RECOVERY FROM SEA BED,
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.!
NEW YORK, August, 22. Fabuloustreasures of Mexico’s ill* ' starred royalty are (reported to have yfy* been recovered from the secafloOr off Virginia, wliere it had lain for twenty years, since the Ward liner Merida Bank. Captain Bowdoin, a no fed salvager, reports the K hoisting, of, a sale that is believed to contain the Crown Jewels of the unfortunate Emperor Maxmilian and his mad Empress Car. 4 lotta. . r The jewels of Maximilian have been ' a legend of Mexico since the ’sixties, iwhen the Emperor Napoleon, [rent a puppet Hapsburg, Maximilian, .and his bride, to rule the virgin empire. Maximilian went before a firing squad, and his Empress became insane .from the shock. She suffered the loss of her memory, and identity, ft he died a low /• years ago in obscurity.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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146ROYAL TREASURE Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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