RUSSIAN JEWELS
DIAMOND DEALER’S BODY FOUND TN CLOSED CAR. STONES WERE OWN FT) BY DEAD CZARINA United Presa Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright NEW YORK, Fob. ft Another attempt to realise on the ill-starred Russian crewn jewels came to light after tlie body ol Leopold Strassen, a diamond dealer, was taken from a closed automobile in which lie drove into Long Island Sound early this morning. Tn a pocket was a small typewritten memo, unsigned: “If the bearer is able to sell Rockefeller two diamonds for 6200.090 he gets 25 per cent, commission.’' Samuel Brnisen, a diamond importer, told tho police that he had commissioned Strassen to sell two square out stones, one brilliant green and the other pure golden, presented in 1342 by a Russian grand duke to the mother of tho slain Czarina. Braisen said ho purchased these stones in Belgium in 1922.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 11 February 1930, Page 5
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