Long Wait

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 dollars worth of the loot, which they think might have been buried in the U.S. or already sold through underworld fences. And because the jewels already recovered had been smuggled into the U.S. without declaration, they would be shipped back to the U.S. for formal clearance by the Customs Bureau.

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