CARD-SHARPERS' GANG
' IMPORTANT ARRESTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, April 30. (Received May I, at 8.5 a,m.) A Russian, Count Ostrovsky alias Count Crankoff, card-sharper and international hotel thief, has been arrested on the Riviera. His biggest haul was £5,000 worth of jewellery at Berlin, where ho Buffered a long term of imprisonment. ' BERLIN, April 30. The capture at Calcutta of a so-called Baron Vonkoeniz, head of an international gang of caTdsharpers, has led to a request for his extradition. His real name is Stallum, and his dupes or alleged accomplices included Count Giesbert WolilMettornich.
[Count Wolff-Metiernich, aged twentyfour who in December last was arrested with alleged associates named Captain Newton and Jules Stuinman, t-uid to be international card-sharpens, was recently sent to hospital with a view to ascertaining his mental condition. The three men were charged with winning £I,OOO from Herr Bactthus, a German officer, in a London hotel. Count Ciieshe.it Wolff-Mettoniich denied complicity in iho offence, and 6tatcd that ho lust considerably himself.]
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Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 6
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164CARD-SHARPERS' GANG Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 6
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