RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS
EFFORTS AT DISPOSAL TWO DIAMONDS FOR £200,000 (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) (Received February 10, 11 a.m.) NfeW YORK, Feb. 9. Another attempt to realise on the illstarred Russian crown jewels came to light after the body of Leopold Strasser, a diamond dealer, was taken from a elosed automobile ill which he drove into Long Island Sound early this morning. In a pocket was a small typewritten memo, unsigned : "if the bearer is able to sell Rockefeller two diamonds for £200,000 lie gets 25 per cent, commission." .Samuel Braisen, a diamond importer, told the police that he bad commissioned Strassen to sell two square cut stones, one brilliant green and the other pure golden, presented in 1842 by a Russian grand duke to the mother of tho slain Czarina. Braisen said be purchased these stones in Belgium in 1922.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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