ANOTHER JEWEL MURDER
[United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received this day at 8 a.m.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 9
Another attempt to realise on the ill-starred Russian crown jewels came to light after the body of Leopold Strasser, diamond denier, was taken from a closed automobile in which lie drove i• 1 1Long Island Sound early this morning. In a pocket was a small typewritten memo unsigned: “If hearer is able to sell Mr Rockefeller two diamonds for a million dollars, he <rets 25 per cant commission.”
Samuel Braisen, diamond importer, told the police lie had commissioned Strassen to sell two square-cut stones, one a brilliant green, and the other pure golden, presented in 1842 by the Russian Grand Duke to the mother of the slain Czarina. Braisen said he purchased these stones in Belgium in 1922.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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136ANOTHER JEWEL MURDER Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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