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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>''Conan Doyle Saves Actor'' is an article published in the [[The Washington Post]] on 28 august 1914.<br />
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== Conan Doyle Saves Actor ==<br />
[[File:the-washington-post-1914-08-28-p6-conan-doyle-saves-actor.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Washington Post]] (28 august 1914, p. 6)]]<br />
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'''William Gillette Had Plans of British Embassy.'''<br />
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''From The New York Times.''<br />
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[[William Gillette]] the actor who was in London when war was declared was under surveillance as a supposed spy because he had plans of the British embassy at Paris in his possession. Only the intervention of [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] saved him from jail.<br />
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The American actor had been stopping at a retired London hotel because of depleted funds Detectives who broke into his room rummaged through his private papers and found the embassy plans. They were confident they had caught a German spy. Through the author of [[Sherlock Holmes]] he explained the plans were part of the play Diplomacy, in which he is to appear here.<br />
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