An upstairs-downstairs case
Acquaintances were not concerned when ex-Labor M.P. Walter Scott-Elliot, 82, and his second wife, Dorothy, 60, failed to reappear in their elegant Chelsea neighborhood after Christmas. After all, Scott-Elliot, an old Etonian and onetime Coldstream Guardsman, had instructed his London bank in mid-December that he and his wife would spend the holiday in Italy. Telephone callers to their flat, filled with $200,000 in antiques and heirlooms, were informed that the Scott-Elliots were indeed away. Not until a Newcastle antiques dealer became suspicious of two men offering him quantities of Meissen china, Minton pottery and silverware much too cheaply...
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