ILL-STARRED JEWELS.
RUSSIAN DIAMONDS BRING DEATH TO DEALER.
<-By . Tel e granh-Press Assn.-Copyright.) ’/Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 9.
Another attempt to realise on the illstarred Russian crown jewels came to light after the body of Leopold Stras•ser, diamond dealer, was taken from -a dosed automobile in which he drove into Long Island Sound early this morning. In the pocket was a small typewritten memo, unsigned; “If the bearer is able to sell Rockefeller two diamonds for a million dollars he gets 25 per cent, commission. ’ ’ Samuel Braisen, diamond importer, told the police he had commissioned ■Strasscr to sell two square-cut .stones, one a brilliant green colour and the .other a pure golden. They were presented in 1842 by a Rfissian Grand Duke to the mother of the slain Czarina. Byaisen said he purchased these stones 'in Belgium in 1922.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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