RUSSIAN WOMAN'S FLIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

RUSSIAN WOMAN'S FLIGHT

PEARL NECKLACE IN MOWH

The case in which the plaintiff was * Russian baroness who escaped frorn ner, country with a pearl necklace in _ b er mouth was before Mr. Justice Ma o " naghten for judgment in a London Court lately. . D | Plaintiff was Baroness Marie berg, now living in Knightsbridge, don. She claimed the return of a nec&* lace of seventy-nine pearls with clasPi which she valued together at £6OO, o damages for alleged wrongful con TS sion bv dealers in nrecious stones. -IB judge held that tho baroness was en titled to recover tho necklace. The baroness, in her'evidence, sa that she made the acquaintance fellow refugee named Thaddee «e , 3 chinsky, a lawyer. Her case was tiu ■ he said he would get " offers necklace, and was entrusted ffito accordingly. He sold it to defends for £95, and she did not- become awa of the fact until after "NViltchmsky d " in November, 1932. wi it Baroness Budberg pleaded that chinsky had no authority to sell, defence was that the man jacted as agent of the baroness. Defendants s ,| the necklace the same day for -H- 1 ' t said they were fortunate enough to 8. it back a year ago as it had resold in the meantime.- , "No question whatever arises as the absolute good faith of a °.j said the judge. " They acted throfe out in perfect honesty, believing ; chinsky s statement that he was, , ;gj fact, authorised to sell tho neckla Counsel for the defence asked _ stay in order that his clients mign. sider whether • fchjsy ; Mr. Justice CexiauMJ