Show honored for trying to steal the crown jewels do you know th atthe crown jewels were stolen from the tower of london more than two hundred and sixty years ago at that time the jewels were kept in in a small iron cage on the I 1 lower ow er floor of martin tower relates a writer in pearsons london weekly and here they attracted the attention of captain blood a notorious irish swashbuckler blood disguised himself as a parson and paid regular visits to the martin tower soon he was friendly with the eighty year old keeper and suggested that a marriage might be arranged between his If nephew and the keepers pretty daughter he appointed a rendezvous for the couple at the unromantic hour of 7 a m on may 9 1671 but instead of the nephew blood turned up with three lusty swordsmen swordsman swords men who knocked down and gagged the old keeper blood snatched the crown and while one accomplice seized the orb with its giant ruby another sawed the sceptre into three parts but at that very moment the keepers son returned from a long campaign in flanders he gave the alarm and a guardsman captured blood at st K ath erines wharf charles 11 II treated d the whole affair as a joke not only did he pardon blood but he received hirn him into court and granted him an estate in ireland to console him for his f failure to bring off the most daring burglary in british h history |