Theodore Roosevelt's pocket watch returns home 37 years after it was stolen
Almost four decades after it was stolen from a Buffalo, New York, museum, a pocket watch carried by the 26th president, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, was returned to his family home on Long Island, officials said.
Almost four decades after it was stolen from a Buffalo, New York, museum, a pocket watch carried by the 26th president, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, was returned to his family home on Long Island, officials said.
The silver pocket watch was returned to the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, which is where Roosevelt had the “Summer White House” during his presidency, the National Park Service and the FBI said.
The watch is engraved with Roosevelt's name and "D.R. & C.R.R." — the initials of Roosevelt's younger sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and his brother-in-law Douglas Robinson Jr.
It was stolen from a museum in Buffalo in 1987. The thief was never caught, but last year the watch ended up before a Florida auction house, where an auctioneer researched it and recognized its significance, the FBI said.
The watch will be on display at the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
Rating: 5