BAYONNE FRAUDS
•■ MUNICIPAL PAWNSHOP
JEWELS MOSTLY PASTE
PARIS, January 25. Before the arrest of Henri Cohen, expert valuer of jewellery for. the Bayonno municipal pawnbrokery, with which Stavisky was concerned, after the discovery that the jewels he examined wero almost worthless, fiftythroe boxes allegedly containing jewels against which advances had been made wero'opened at the Credit Municipal. The Magistrate decided it was useless to continue the examination. The contents were mostly paste. One box which was valued, according to the label, at £7500 and .on which £6250 had been advanced, proved to be worth £28.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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95BAYONNE FRAUDS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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