Two Valuable Pictures are Returned to Owners London, Apr. 90.
Two of the five old masters stolen from Chilham Castle, the residence of Sir Edmund and Lady Davis, on April 23, were recovered last night.
They were Gainsborough's portraits of William Pitt and Lady Clarges, which together were valued a £30,000.
The recovery of the paintings was understood to have followed a visit to the assessors by a man claiming the reward of £8,000 offered for the recovery of the pictures. The man was subsequently detained at Scotland Yard.
The five masterpieces stolen from the 17th century castle, near Canterbury, involved a loss estimated at £100,000.—Reuter.
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