GEM SWINDLE. PAMS, May 4. A self-appointed woman jewel-broker, Mine. Majenz, has been arrested by the Paris police and charged with a double swindle which brought her £24,(100. Majenz, who is a Russian, aged about 50, fair and buxom, called some wcjeks ago at a well-known Paris jeweller’s shop, with live 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 Avoman’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 Avorth about £30.000. These she sold to another jeweller for £12.000 and then disappeared in the Paris undenvoild. The real oAvner of the emeralds, who had 'also been a victim of her forged papers, informed the police, ami she was arrested.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1929, Page 6
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168Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1929, Page 6
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