Regency Crime and Punishment: Jewellery Theft

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young charge than herself LADIES JEWELS HINTS FOR INQUIRY AND PREVENTION OF THEFT Notwith standing the caution which we have urged upon ladies with regard to their jewels new robberies continue every day in a manner that would make one almost as mystical as the Germans and conceive supernatural means Lady Brownlow and others have been added to the numerous sufferers Why not have a casket on the principle of the commercial iron chest affixed as it could be with ele gance in the wall it would be equally ac cessible to the decoration of the toilet as any other depository and equally inacces sible to the robbers whatever their know ledge of the privacies of the dressing room Since this paragraph was written has occurred the robbery at 34 in the same square Belgrave as Lady Brownlow's of the Duchess of Gordon's jewels worn at court on the Queen's birth day which it is said can hardly be replaced by 100,000 l and all is involved in mystery It is hard to incur the possibility of injuring good ser vants yet good servants must be as desirous as any of discovering the thief Who we would ask had access to the room What visiters have they received and where have they visited What conversations have they had even with known jewellers This is not said uncharitably but jewellers may inconsciously employ persons who in this age of refined deception may possibly not be what they appear to them As to ladies sending their jewels to bankers during the season of their use the thing is ludicrous bankers are already accommodating enough but they cannot afford decoration rooms for half the female nobility There is nothing but the mural casket into which valuable decorations may be thrown any hour per fectly fire proof and which would require time enough and noise enough to force to pre clude the possibility of taking place with out alarming the household We are glad to learn lately that the amount of lost value has been exaggerated in the daily papers This editorial appeared in the April 1835 issue of The Lady’s Magazine and Museum

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