ARMY & NAVY
The evidence was a $500,000 display of jewels looted from the House of Hesse's Kronberg Castle (TIME, June 17, 1946). In Frankfurt last week an eight-member Army court pronounced sentence on Colonel Jack W. Durant for his part in the crime. The sentence: 15 years at hard labor, dismissal from the service. Already serving prison terms for the same offense are Durant's ex-WAC captain wife, Kathleen (five years); and Major David F. Watson (three years).
But it would be a long time before Princess Margareta von Hesse could expect her heirlooms back. Army investigators had not yet found another million...
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