ROBBERY OF CROWN JEWELS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 314, 13 January 1908, Page 3

ROBBERY OF CROWN JEWELS.

gOTOGjUF THE COMMISSION. Rewired Jan. 12, i.l p.m. , London, January 11. Ike sjttinf of the Dublin Commission of Inquiry relating to the theit of Crown jewel* revealed that the Government in October informed Sir Arthur Vicars that it had decided to reconstitute the office of the Ulster King's Arms and remove the holder from the post. Sir Arthur Vicars then withdrew from the commission's room with his legal advisers became the inquiry was private. He demanded a full publie judicial in quiry.

About 3.30 )p.m. on the 6th July, an official with the Office of Arms, Dublin, Castle, had occasion to put some article into a sale in which the State jewels bcbngfcg to the Order of St. Patrick had otea kept, but on trying to unlock the dear he discovered that it had been prerkwsly unlocked, and on testing the leva]'the door readily opened. The lost tint* on which this safe is known to have teen opened was on 11th - Juue but, who the jewels were inspected and found t* be correct, and there appears to be as doubt but that the door was locked when the inspection was over. There was no *ark on the safe to indicate that any valence was used to open it, nor was there any indication to Bhow that access to the building was obtained otherwise than by regular means. FoUowyg is the official description of the artklM stolen:—

Insignia of the Order of St Patrick.A diamond star of the Grand Master of the Order of St. Patrick, composed of brilliants 1 (Brazilian stones), consisting of poiats issuing from a centre enclosing » cross ef-iubiea ad a trefoil of emeralds and ;akj-brat enamel with "Quis Beparabiti tfUftJOrJUU.," in rose feewndsj ' X DumonK Wge Of .the Order.—A diamond batfge < Up" Grand Master of the OrdeSol . Patrjak, set in silver, uinlaliilii|"h irffnfl in emeralds on a ruby eroayimiTrouiiM by a sky-blue eaameQedjfrcle, wKa "Quis Separabit, SfDOGLXXBII.,* in rose diamonds in a circle of tS large Brazilian stones, eurauuted fef a harp ia diamonds and a

loon. Fit* GoM and EaammeUed Collars of the Order.—Five collars of Knights Companion of the Order of St Patrick, composed of g(Jd, with roses and harps alternately fled together, with knots ?f ■rid leaves ouaadled, and an Imperial Jewelled cnwn ftratmating a harp of gold, one laving attached a badge of the Order, eaapoted of Brazilian stones and the Cross of St Patrick in rabies in a Mae enact circle, with the motto "Quia BtpraMt, UDCCUXSUI," in hose diamondi, the whole endoeed by a wreath of trefoil in emeralds on a gold ground enamelled, in colons. The total value of the jewels stolen taw been set down at "«0,000.