PRINCESS LOUISE'S WEDDING. Plot to Steal the Royal Plate.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 6

PRINCESS LOUISE'S WEDDING. Plot to Steal the Royal Plate.

Tub « Irish Times ' London correspondents says :: — * A curious report circulates in connection with the "Royal marriage* In order to furnish forth the wedding feast; in style of becoming splendour, the two millions'" worth of Royal plate hoarded in what areknown as the gold and silver strong rooms' of Windsor were"largely drawn upon everyday for a fortnight before the nuptials.. Selections from the vast treasure were removed from the castle to Buckingham! Palaco in charge of two servants 6t" the* pantry and a Yeoman of the Household, re- ' inforced by half-a-dozen constables in plaint clothes. The precautions were not unnecessary, for there is word o£ an'drganisedl conspiracy to steal the plate in transit, and it has been discovered that had the Royal servants Been the sole escort}.', they we*re to have been attacked by the gang' and disposed of somehow in order- *tQ v sGcur,e th© valuables. The moving spirit of the enter- * prise is supposed to be a desperado known, to the police, who are now' engaged in the attempt to establish the case against him and his confederates. '

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