Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-01-26
The Graghic's Weekly London Letter

London, Jan. 25.-Tha trainin.
cruiser Cumberland has lefs layin:
on board te black sheep anon! Inc
royal children. Young Prince Albert
whose only fault is tat, being of \
lively temperament and exceed ngl,
fond Of harmless boyish FRANKS. he
does not come I'D to the standard OF
nicely which Queen Mary has set fol
her little lamb. Everybody know
that 1t is customary in many Euro
pean families to ship their black
sheep across the Atlantic and as q
rule the United States S selected Il.
the most suitable reformatory echoo!
for these, bat the future mapped ou
for Prince Abe! by lis stern moother
is different from the ordinary black
sheep, and the cruiser which has been
selected as his temporary prison is
not to be permitted to go near any
port in the Tn led States. So if peo-
pie in America have any expectations
of seeing among them the grandson
Of the late King Edward, they had
better give them up.
The mysterious theft of the Dublin
crown peyels and heir later fate con
tnues to agitate the minds of the
English people, WHO have got the scent
of 4 b g scandal, which tn authorities
are determined to keep from becoming
public property.
According % a sensational Londol
weekly, whose bold motto eve buy
the truth is emb,aZoned on its iron
page every week, there is no myster.
any longer and only the eXceedingl,
paper from revealing the name of th-
If one may bel eve he story toll
in that paper. the Irish crown pewels
in spite of all official denials, Were
recovered more than three years agt
and have since teen been restin:
safely in TIE vaults in the castle a
Dublin. That the theft, or rathe
the thieves have not been prosecuted
due to the fact that the chief cul
prit is too close to he throne. Tn
crown jewels We're stolen by mean
Of a false key made from cas- o
the real key in the keeping Of 81
Arthur Vicar. The false key wa
landed to one of a gang of four WE'
had access to the office of Arms an
the stolen peWels were immediatel.
paWned. When the theft was dis
coered it took only a few houra to lC
cate the pawnbroker, who IS com
PEELED to give them up, but who sal'
that if. he comp led with the law h
was determined to demand the pun
ishmentof the man to whom ne len
tie money, and the high social stand
ing of the man made such thing i'm
possible. Lord Aberdeen was there
fore told that he was responsible 10
the Jewels, he. ust stand the eXpens
of their recovery. The sum advanc
ed was 50 great hoWver, that IN
Lord could no. raise itself and mum
Der of very rich men were approached
every one of whom refused to do any
tn ng, until certain Irish peer o
enormous wealth promised to; do s.
on three conditions, two of w'1lcl
we're compiled with almost immediate
ly and the crown jeels We're Gu.etl
put back into the vaults from Whlcl
they were stolen. But so far the all
thorities have not found any oppor
tunity to adv Sc the public OF the FAC
principally because no one has eve
been able to invest plausible eX
PLANTATION of tn theft and recover
Which would not prove embarassln
to some of the very highest people Il
the country.
The fact that a mysterious airsh
time and again been seen lowering o
flying swiftly above the various place
in England last time above the harpo
OF Dover in the early morning hour Q
January 4th, has glen rise to niue
uneasiness and any number OF III
mors. Generally it is though ina
the airship belong to the Galsef
growing aerial fleet and is practlcln