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Crab Island, Doolin – 1918

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Freemans Journal 17th April, 1918 p3 (abridged)

Crab Island, Doolin, County Clare Photo: Dr Charles Nelson Wikimedia Commons
Crab Island, Doolin, County Clare
Photo: Dr Charles Nelson
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The County Clare police have arrested a man who entered Crabbe (Crab) Island, in a sheltered inlet of Galway Bay, near Doolin, in a collapsible boat, and who declared that he had escaped from an American ship that had been sunk by a German submarine.
It appears that the ship mentioned was not sunk, and the mysterious visitant of this lonely coast, which is well within the bay, being unable to give a satisfactory account of his presence, was conveyed by the naval authorities to Scotland Yard.
He wore the clothes of an ordinary civilian with a frieze coat, and it appears that he got £45 in silver at an Ennistymon bank. He is a man of education and states that he is a native of Munster.
The collapsible boat is not of the ordinary type but has cork stays and can be rolled up into a small parcel.
He was taken to Dublin on the way to London

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Mystery of the Irish Crown Jewels – 1912

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Image of the stolen Irish Crown Jewels, from Hue and Cry, Image published in 1907. Wikimedia comons
Image of the stolen Irish Crown Jewels, from Hue and Cry, Image published in 1907.
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL 1st December 1912
FUGITIVE TRAILED AROUND THE GLOBE
by Thomas Emmet
Dublin
The arrest in Angola, West AFrica, of Francis Shakleton, formerly Dublin herald and a brother of the famous Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, has created a tremendous sensation throughout Ireland. It is expected that, at last, the famous mystery of the Irish Crown Jewels, which vanished from the strong room of Dublin castle in broad daylight, is to be unveiled.
Scotland yard detectives and an American sleuth in the pay of the British crown trailed Shackleton around the globe to his hiding place in Angola.
The ancient crown of the Irish Queen consort, which is worn only on great state occasions by the wife of the viceroy, three of the principal jewels of the order of St. Patrick and the gemmed hilt of the sword of “Silken Thomas,” prince of Leinster, disappeared from Dublin castle the day following an all night poker session in which Shackleton and other young ‘bloods’ officials at the castle, were hosts to people of not too savory repute. The loss was hushed up for a time.

Later Shackleton went bankrupt for $500,000 liabilities and scarcely any assets. Ugly rumors began to crop up. The bankrupt fled. Until his arrest was reported it was not known that the government was taking action.