Curiously enough, though the avthorities cannot succeed in tracing the criminals, they do succeed in tracing the loot. A house wa raided in South London in the course of the last few days, and fan immense amount of stolen articles were recovered. Some of them are badly damaged, but others fare intact, and they are certainly worth in' the aggregate about £10,000. The articles include a large number of revolvers, a box full of wrist-watches, clocks, a quantity of gold articles apparently melted into one lump, pices of platinum, silver plate marked with a crest, precious stones many of the gems een detached from their settings, gold watches, silver-bucked mirrors and hair-brushes, salt cellars, cigarette cases, axh trays, brooches, and pins.' A list of the property ix being prepared, and is said to include the miniature of a dead child whose mother made a fruitless appeal to the thieves for Its return, To this initial collection there have been added an ingot of gold and three ingots of silver, believed to be parte of rings, bracelets, watch-cases, cigarette and cigar cases melted down. The gold bar alone is said to be worth £800, Scotland Yard has issued an urgent appeal to people to come forward and recognize their property, and up to the present 145 articles have been identified, cluding a brooch valued at '8600. Yesterday many victims of recent robberies attended at the Yard in the hope of identifying their property. Unfortunately many of the gems recovered had been mutilated, torn from their settings, identification ix extremely difficult, "Among the persons who have visited the collection are Mrs.
James White, Lady Crewe, Sir Ernest Horlick, Lady Beale,' Miss Singer, Miss De La Vigne, Miss Booth, the Dowager Countess of Antrim, Lord Stevenson, and Mr. Thomas Craven. Representatives of insurance assessors were also particularly interested.
Some" of the property has been identified ax part of the loot from Nubia House, Cowes, the residence of Lady Baring, in August, and from Mr. James' White's house in Mayfair last week, Two men are in custody charged unlawful possession of the property, but apparently it is not fur gested that they are the real thieves,
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