Show FAMOUS JEWELS disinterred fabulous wealth for years undisturbed behind massive doors will be brought to light london march 2 A great event in the history of coutts tho most famous private bank in the world la about to take place the house la prepared to remove from the dismal and unworthy premises at CO strand to tho handsome building which has been erected a little further west on the opposite aldo of tho saino thoroughfare tho dato of the removal will bo kept a bochet tor in view of tho enormous value of tho goods that will fall the ons tho management is not desirous of creating too much public interest in the affair the hidden treasury tre asuro alone will rc quire several vans some of it haa been locked up in the strong rooms guarded by iron doors weighing a ton each for nearly two hundred years most of tho original owners of theao trunks and chests have been long dead in rare cases there are no living claimants but coutts have never disregarded their trust as mere custodians and do not know to this day bo contents of tho boxes what wonders of gold and jewels they hold what secrets of lives past and forgotten ahoy hide no ono known and never will know and yet there aro great names ou those mysterious receptacle for the doltish royal family has done business with tho bank since the days of george II 11 nelson deposited in the strong rooms a valuable diamond aigrette presented to him by a foreign potentate who took it out of his own turban to pin in tbt helmet of tho great bailor the duko of wellington had an account with the bank BO had patt charles dickens sir walter scott lord macaulay tho baah of persia and a host of other notability ies V A huge stock of books f dating from ahl have to be found a now resting place these books contain what would make the most wonderful collection of autographs in ex licence Ss |