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London police admitted last week they haven't a clue as to why thieves in the last six months have spirited away at least 20 bronze sculptures, each weighing half a ton or more. On Jan. 10, at a university campus in Roehampton, a 2.2-m-tall sculpture weighing one-third of a ton by the British modernist Lynn Chadwick was hacked from its plinth. One of a trio of figures, The Watchers, it is valued at $1 million - far less than the $5.4 million price tag on Henry Moore's 2.5-ton Reclining Figure that in December was lifted...
...Limb. In Roehampton, England, when one-legged Convict Glyn Peters was taken to a hospital and fitted with an artificial leg, he followed the doctor's suggestion that he walk around and try it, sauntered right out of the building and escaped...
...Domville, 62, onetime chief of Naval Intelligence and, since his retirement in 1936, an ardent Naziphile, guest in Germany of Hitler, Göring and Gestapo Chief Himmler, head of The Link (British pro-Nazi cell), was a dangerous character. They found and arrested him at his home in Roehampton, jailed also his half-German wife and their son, Compton...
...England's national croquet championship is now held at Roehampton...
When Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of George V, fell off his pony during a polo match at Roehampton. onetime King Alfonso of Spain quickly ran out on the field, helped carry him to the dressing rooms...