DISCOVERY IN GENEVA
GHOULISH CRIME CORPSE ROBBED OF JEWELS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. GENEVA, October 28. The family tomb belonging to Jean Bartholomi, who ie related to the reining House of Monaco, was recently opened at Petit Sacennez, near Geneva, for the burial of Bartholomi’s ten-year-old son.
Tho grave-diggers discovered that the tomb had been violated, and the body of Bartbolomi’s first wife, who died 18 yeans, ago, had been stripped of the precious jewel© she was wearing when she had been buried, including a collar of pearls and diamonds and a ring of great value. The thieves had been so brutal as to break the fingers when dragging the rings from the corpse. Bartholomi was formerly extremely wealthy, but lost tho whole of his fortune as a result of speculations on tho Bourse.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11663, 30 October 1923, Page 6
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