Michael Ostrog is the last and least plausible of Sir Melville
Macnaghten's three suspects. He was a thief and confidence man who used
many aliases. He often represented himself as an impoverished Polish
nobleman. He spent a good amount of his life in jail, but he was
completely unrepentant. In 1874, after Ostrog was convicted of stealing
a dozen books, the Buckinghamshire Advertiser summed him up:Ostrog
is no ordinary offender, but a man in the prime of life with a clever
head, a good
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