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Show They Rob One Woman of. $20,000 in Jewelry New York, Oct. 29. A squad of New York detectives was sent to Belmont Bel-mont Park today to scrutinize the aviation meet crowd for the faces of some familiar crooks who are sud pected of having designs for extensive operations among the fashionables gathered there. The presence of clever thieves was called suddenly to the attention of the authorities by the announcement today that $20.00" worth of jewelry disappeared at the meet on Wednesday from the handbag or Mrs. George A. Huhn, Jr, wife of a well-known Broadway banker. In offering a reward of $5"0 for tQs recovery of the Jewelry, Mrs. Huhn described the manner in which she lost It as follows; "I was late In leaving my borne and did not have time to putawav a lot of Jewelry which I had taken from a safe In order t pick out just what I wanted. It was tuch a nuisance to bother with the combination to replace re-place the jewelry in the safe that I Just wrapped them all in a handkerchief handker-chief and put the handkerchief In my handbag. "The presence of the jewels did not recur to m again until I was nearly to New York on my return. Then I looked down and found my handbag half open and the handkerchief handker-chief containing the jewels gone. The contents of the handkerchief Included a valuable ring shaped brooch, with two pearl pendants, a $3,ooo pearl disk on a chain, four bracelets and some pins." The New York detectives, who were at once put on the case, learned some time ago, they said, of the presence at the meet of a notorious handbag cronk. |