WOMAN’S JEWEL DEAL

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 11

WOMAN’S JEWEL DEAL

GETS OFF WITH £24,000. A self-appointed woman jewel-broker, Mme. Majenz, has been arrested by the Paris police and charged with a double swindle which brought her £24,000. Majenz, who is a Russian, aged about 50, fair and buxom, called some ago at a well-known Paris jeweller’s shop, with five magnificent emeralds. She said they had been entrusted to her by a Bolshevik agent for sale, and that she would accept £12,000 for them. The jeweller saw that the stones were worth nearly twice that price, and on being shown two or three receipted bills in the woman’s name, he bought the emeralds, paying the price asked in banknotes.

The woman then proposed, that she should act as the jeweller’s agent and was entrusted with diamonds worth about £30,000. These she sold to another jeweller for £12,000, and tnen disappeared in the Paris underworld. The real owner of the emeralds, who had also been a victim of her forged papers, informed the police, and she was arrested.