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IRELAND'S CROWN JEWELS STOLEN

On July 6, 1907, the cleaning woman at Dublin Castle's Bedford Tower discovered the first evidence that a daring theft had taken place practically in front of four guards. She found that the door to the strong room where the crown jewels of Ireland were kept had been left open overnight. That afternoon a porter, returning a gold and enamel collar to the safe, gave the alarm that the safe was already open. The jewels were gone. The robber would have had to obtain keys to the tower's main door, the strong room, and finally the safe. Police reported it would have required at least ten minutes to remove the rubies, emeralds, and diamonds from their casings. The thief and jewels were never found.

It was the time of the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin. A policeman and a soldier had been on guard outside the castle day and night. Within fifty yards of the castle were the headquarters of the metropolitan police, the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Dublin detective force, and the military garrison.

The four men specifically responsible for protecting the jewels were dismissed. Over time, they all died tragically. One died in a car accident. Another was killed while out shooting alone. A third, jailed for fraud, was on his release from prison when he vanished. The body of the fourth was found in the garden of his home, riddled with bullets.

Two weeks earlier in Ascot, England, on a table on the lawn in back of the grandstand, the prestigious Ascot Cup, a twenty-carat gold trophy thirteen inches high and six inches in diameter, weighing just over four pounds, disappeared in front of a policeman and another official guarding it, as well as a crowd of gawking admirers. The thief and cup were never found.

200 Stolen Items: Police Looking for their Owners

Police looking for the owners of nearly 200 objects stolen by a gang specialized between December 2011 and February 2017 in France.

Jewelry, watches, handbags, gold coins, clocks, knickknacks and other charms: Police trying to find the rightful owners of assorted booty amassed during years by a gang specializing in theft by deception, now behind bars.

The survey used to dismantle the network was…