$200,000 IN JEWELS LOST ON ATLANTIC FLIGHT FAILURE
LONDON, May 7—(AP)—Diamonds and other jewels worth approximately $200,000, the property of Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, were lost on her ill-fated attempt at a Transatlantic flight in the St. Raphael last August.
Friends of the late Princess say they consisted of many precious stones and family heirlooms which she treasured almost as dearly as her life, therefore she decided to take them with her.
In aviation circles which were close to Captain
Leslie Hamilton and Colonel F. F. Minchin, who also disappeared with the St. Raphael, the story is [unreadable] that the jewels were taken along with hopes of selling a few of them in the United States in the event that the adventurers needed cash.
This is denied, but Prince Charles Phillip, Duke of Nemours, who recently married Margaret Watson and who knew all of the late fliers, told the Associated Press correspondent before starting on their honeymoon that Captain Hamilton told him of a scheme to make money on the other side. The proposition, as Hamilton outlined it to the Duke, was this:
Before starting Hamilton bought 600 one-pound notes. His idea was that as the Saint Raphael landed in America all the notes would be autographed by the Princess, Colonel Minchin and himself and sold for $25 to $30 each or for whatever price they might bring in the souvenir hunters' market.
The Portsmouth Daily Times (Portsmouth, Ohio) - Monday, May 7, 1928
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