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How We Took Stone Of Destiny From Westminster Abbey
EXCLUSIVE STORY FROM THE GIRL IN THE CASE
UNDER
the soft lights of the ballroom, the couple chatted earnestly across a table. It was an evening in mid-December, and Glasgow University under- graduates were celebrating Daft Friday at the traditional ball in the Students' Union.
At last the girl rose and with her companion joined the dancers on the floor. In these few moments she had entered the plot to remove the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.
It was the start of an exploit that was to set the world laughing and wonder- ing, that swept war and UNO from the front pages of newspapers in every, lan- gunge and set Scotland Yard on one of their most intensive man hunts.
The girl-pelite and dark-who joined the conspirators that night-the only woman in the group of four-was 22-year-old Kay Matheson. A native of Inveras- dale-tiny village in remote Wester Ross-she went to Glasgow to study and later to teach domestic science in city schools.
Quietly, almost demurely, with a smile on her lips, she tells of the invitation to danger that canic to her that night of the ball........
T
By Kay Matheson
E suggestion came from a man whom i knew was reliable, a deep thinker; a man the welfare of
who had
expected to get it me as a student. I moved into We nover
We over the Border but even if we his car and we drove off,
a roadhouse halted at Abbey from the removed it
for supper, and hat, we know, would set the near Greina
then continued our journey into country by the ears.
England.
road At Scotch Corner the was like ice, lorries were over- turned all over the place and, finally, while was having a turn at the
the wheel, we scidded and ran into a ditch.
The plotters believed that Scotland uppermost in his the capture of a woman would altract, much more publicity heart, not just a reckless than of a man. The other three were all University students, student fanatic.
If they had been caught,
We did not
We wailed for the other car
to overtake us and help, but
It was not a 'varsity rag, but found they had also been ditch-
ed. At last we managed to get identify himself. He gave the
I agreed that I should might all have been written off take part in the plan, but as a 'varsity rag. only after debating in my want that. mind whether a girl might be a help or a hindrance in such an undertaking. But I felt proud to have been ask- cal.
Of course, I was not to know then just what I had let myself
olomonstration, I am
had been caught in possession of the Stone, we reasoned, much
would attach
more weighi
to
the incident than if the culprit had been an undergraduate.
in for I was not to know then MORE SURPRISED
was uneventful, trip
Fiudents.
However, he promised to con- the cars out, and after that the name of John Allison and an tact me should another attemp:
but not address
In Arlington Street, he planned. We drove to © London, N. W.
boarding house, I think in Bays- Ot My partner in the car and I very comfortable,
course, he had just dream- water, and I registered under a took turn about driving until we reached London. By that that, the address being fotitious name.
suggested by a bar near the time it was after mid-day on
University frequented by the MY FIRST REAL Saturday. We went straight
SCARE OF THE TRIP to Lyon's Corner Ilouse in the Strand, and had lunch-and It was intended I should be we need it! After that we made straight for Westminster Abbey captured and that
Quite a time was spent look should escape. As it turned out. Ing over the place. For the we all got clear away. I was first time I saw the Stone in
Previously we even more surprised over that reality. than the public or the Metro-spoken of it and i had studied
pictures of it. politan police.
of the mad fight I would make THAN POLICE half way across England with the precious, historie relic in the boot of my car.
Could I have seen into the future then I often wonder if I would have hesitated a little longer.
STONE FELL OUT OF THE CAR
Certainly I doubt if I could live through again these dread- ful moments when, in the heart of London, the Stone fell out of the car 1 was driving and crashed into the street.
the others
I was ploked for the job be- ause I was known to have a DISCOVERED trong belief in the cause of BY WATCHMAN home rule. could drive a car.
ac
They were satisfied I had a steady nerve and, having been brought up on croft and
a customer to carrying bags of peats. I would be able to ass in manhandling the Stone.
had
in
rang.
Mitt Kay Matheson
waiting for the men to return and thinking they would never come.
But it was through another door one of them eventually brought the Stone.
From a doorway a few yards nearer the road one of my col- leagues appeared with part of the Stone - it was in two pieces when the men drow It from underneath the Coronation Chair,
drow the сог forward lowords this doorway and he placed it in the rear seat and covered it over with a brown travelling rug. He returned to the Abbey for the other portion and I reversed the car to its original position.
A POLICEMANI I WAS PETRIFIED
He had scarcely gone, when
I saw a policeman appearing of the end of the drive. I was potrifled.
Abut any moment the boys. might appear with the second portion of the Stone and come into full view.
This was the most crucial moment for me. I know if I my head now the whole scheme would fall through.
last
heard one of the men re- turning, so I moved the car so that it would block the officer's. vlow of the Abbey door.
⭑X-
My friend stepped through this door into the car to plain that they would be some
ime with the other piece. pointed out that there was n policeman standing at the top of the drive looking down.
hoped to get to Wales. We had We said we were touring and
I
We were
The
PRETENDED WE WERE COURTING
The policemen apparently thought it was worth investi- gating and walked up the drive- way towards us. In these few minutes before he reached us, we decided to play the part of a He came back rather discon- did
I did not get to bed until courting couple and snuggled
11 pm, but fell sound up to each other. solate but because of this in- cident we decided to abandon about
asleep then, leaving it to the The policeman tok us wo think up the were in a private roadway and the project that night,
During the evening we motor- three others the Stone retrieval could not park there. ed round London famillarising next move
We told That project. They thought of some him we knew, but privary was ourselves with the roads.
thing more quickly than I
just what we wanted. night we slept in the cars in a car park.
pained, and about one o'clocit On Sunday morning, we had in the morning the phone and another mun round London and The landlord answered, produced "another plan A-thick came up to tell me my friend not much money and could not fog had setled on London.
hotel, so itad rung to say his father was afford an
In the car. That, we thought, would give dangereusty ill, and I was to spending the nigh:
That was Our immediate impulse was
our story. for the Stone's et ready to leave at once.
know it was just one of the polleeman was sympathetic but to get on with the business of outside cover
contact insisted that we could not re- getting it away, but we had to removal.
conspirators, trying to see how our plan was going to VISITORS CROWDED
sney and got up and made ready main there. We were terrifest that at any moment the other operate in practice.
THE ABBEY
to leave. My collaboratory worked out
It was then that I got my two might stumble out with the get the
other bit of the preclous Stone. the quickest way to
The idea was that one man first real sware of the trip. But maybe even worse were
and where we two of us in the plot but it be Stone away,
a diversion inside As I was going downstairs I the days, weeks, months of sus came apparent that we needed could leave the cars
without would stage
the Abbey while the other two beard the Landlord speaking to THINK I pense that followed. The awful
at least one more another pair attracting too much attention.
He was saying he the police. removed the Stone through moment when police suspicion of hands to assist in the removal
Was we returned to side door to the car in which thought there something centred upon me, the polite but of the heavy Stone,
Lyon's for tea and a talk. But I was waiting outside.
,done
uspicious going on. relentless questioning,
been in we had The student
He appeared to think I was ap- who had
I waited for ages, but there shadow of the police always
proached me on Daft Friday Abbey, one of the men had had was never much hope of suc- all right, but he definitely dis- with me.
Idea, and he put it to us cess, for, an was preparing
detailed the
as it was Christmas trusted the party who had tele- They tried to make me feel scheme for taking "the Stone. over the table.
thne, the Abbey had many-phoned, like a criminal, but I never felt He had studied plans of West- Why should be not get back visitors and there was always
one nor did ordinary minster Abbey. He made a trip into the Adbey before it closed, somebody near the Coronation RECEIPTS SATISFIED
At last our fellows ad- THE OFFICER people treat me like are to the Albey, studied the lie of conceal himself and be locked Chair.
mitted dateat and rejoined me, Rather did they go out of their the land and noted the times in?
watchmen and
We planned to romove police
At this stage, I didn't know By this time I was feeling way to shield me. They showed when
Stone during Sunday night so pretty exhausted and suffering whether the others had sympathy, kindness, and many patrols passed.
be could open the doors for us from symptoms of 'nu. refrained from asking me ques-
My Stone in their possession or not, tioned that only the previous flons about the Stone,
WE SET OFF
from the Inside and so prevent friend, the original planner, A few minutes later one of the week he had found a car just Lots
insisted that I should go to a men arrived at the door in the there, and in the back seat were people have wondered FOR THE SOUTH
unnecessary damage. why we took the Stone af all
It sounded good, so he hurried hotel for the night. I didn't hired Ford Anglia, and hard on stolen rugs.
I could feel the Stone con- and even more have asked why
back to the Abbey and got in want to, it savoured of weak- his heels came a detective who and hid, but he was discovered "ness and I was afraid he would scomed to think we had stolen cealed below the travelling rug
almost boring Into my back. by the watchman and asked to regret having included a woman.. the car.
I shall never know how gol strength to put it back.
Jtico
1
the
a woman was taken into the plot. And anyway why should have been the chosen anc? I can give an answer to all these questions.
WE DID NOT EXPECT
TO GET IT AWAY
At this stage there were only
Then he returned from Lon- don and it was agreed the at- tempt should be inade around Christmas.
I
WAS Д domestic science teacher at Eastpark School, Maryhill, Glasgow. and On Friday, December 22, the school broke up for the Christmas
car
We
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while
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TORONTO.
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STOPPED BREATHING
Then there was a dull thump from inside the Abbey. I think I stopped breathing."
It seemed that now discovery was certain, but to our amaze ment and relief the officer just grinned
and said: "Night watch- man seems to have fallen down the stairs."
We kept talking to us' for the about ten minutes and
The situation was saved by a third meher of our quarto who had been parked
10
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He actually looked into our nic seat, but saw nothing to arouse his
Instead$pted us to the
he
the corner. He came forward and produced the hire receipt. other parking place the very This seemed
the spot where the other Batisfy
car, was officer.
lying. Once the policeman was He apologised and when we out of sight we scrambled out. told him we were going to Scot- WRAPPED THE land he
gave us directions on to the Edgware Road. We thank STONE IN RUG ed him and made off for the Abbey.
On the way my colleague ex- plained the plan.
It was decided that I should. get of as quickly as possible with my part of the Stone, but we could not leave it lying in the back sent.
We who believe that Scotland holidaya. As I left the should have more say over her
I found a Ford Anglia I joined for me. waiting for own affairs though: that the car English did not appreciate how two of the conspirators in the strongly we felt about it,
and we set off out of town.
bitterly cold and there The English Press had, in the It was main ignored our movement was snow on the ground. and it became apparent that no headed along London Road and
the largest known all reserve in
The Stone was to be taken reasoned statement of our case halted at a bridge just beyond
A CREE medicine man's cure the world. But a way had to
right now,
My companion lifted it out, was likely to be given much Carmyle.
It was Christmas morning, still wrapped in the mig, and publicity. The need was for There, to my surprise, anothecj Britain oil worth £300,000,- enough and then take it to
There would be no buses and placed it in the boot of the car. action and action in England. car, also a Ford Anglia, drew
miles
very little traffic of any kind. He lonfeed the boot and put the So was revived the idea of up alongside. It was driven by000,000 to replace any she might the marest railway 50
lose in Iran. Three London to the south at Fort McMur-The streets would be deserted.
key
in his pocket. leading removing the Stone of Destiny. a man, who was introduced to
officials of the Anglo-Iranian Oil ray, once one of the
There were hopes of getting
The idea was that if I was Company
D. headed by Dr A.
Hudson well away from the Abbey bo- stopped and trading posts of the Howes of the Research Depart Bay Company
car searched, fore the alarm was Talack).
forcing the boot open would at ment, have arrived in Alberta
least talte some time. THERE WAS NO
was to tell the police in Sidney ONE IN SIGHT
these circumstances that I had Martin Blair, aged 51, to
only borrowed the car. and ex- Today, We wont first to a car park prass the hope that they would Albertan Government off- prepare 4 report Cials say that the
Britons 2,500-miled away by Toronto former bombed site-near not damage it by forcing-the- were "deeply impressed,"
but Mr Blair reports that he has Westminster and left the hired hoot,
22nd car there.
Fortunately there was nobody Dr Howes is saving his report the answer. From the
floor of a skyscraper where All four of us piled into the else in the car park, for his return to London.
or they samples of the sand sprinkle other car and drove up to the could not have failed to have Pioneers in the sub-Arctic, his mahogany desk, he reports rear of the Abbey. There was a suspicions, There wero 300 miles northeast of Edmon that the patrol can be extract nobody in sight. We ran the two ather cars there and a bus. ton, Alberta, 200 years ago, ed by blowing hot air through ear up a narrow driveway in but they were unoccupied.
the Abbey grounds and parked were told by Cree Indians of the sands to distil, then con
opposite an Iron gate
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I was told to keep the ear With a £15,000,000 refinery
We had 'scant time to wasto at the site and a £2,000,000 engine running while the three showed the fur traders how pipeling to Edmonton, homon forced their way into the on precise Instructions: bus I
was advised, to maką før. Réad the land was so rich that old maps that the off.
Abbey and got the Stone. which opzed
They climbed over the gate ing and was given rough direc out when
barrel £1 a was would cost
to got o out of heated, and said that thear market, would sell for 23. 84. and I could see the three at ions on how to
London. medicine men used the drop more a barred. This is a call clustered round the door, Lon
confederate to I told my
itako pings for headaches.
300,000,000,000 trying to force it with a Jemmy.
Every little sound seemed like the other car from the parking EV Fince the white
is 240,000,000, a clap of thunder to me, but the other bit of the Stone wildr the Abbey tợ*phole; un has had the headache trying to 900.
the Government very soon sooner than experte find out how the oil could be hopes to attract privato capitated the door swing open and brits time, had been man marketed successfully Tho- to
erted Canned American vers they disappeared inside, swple handled to the doosic by stridy cover an:
flowed, up the gloom. Then two men we had lett, Inside.
We wished each other, the
·Inverted) have shown inforest.: Wiihe door slowly closed genin. telungle of 30,000 square miles, bigger than the whole of Scot- the arrival of the Britons, it was a clear crisp night and best of luck and made off. law and have a etservs- of has become a mede-nation race I could efg qulfo a distaces bus Mite Mashason. 900,000,000,000 barscle of elt for the headache cure. I did not look much; feather: Worli madhan. £t:alterrel, the, ties
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