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Show LOSES JEWELS ON TRIP TO U S Russian Woman Declares She Is Robbed of $200,000 in Gems NEW YORK. May 21. (By Inter-national Inter-national News Service).- When Mme Bonlslawa Lampreclrt Von Pctsehen- I ' ko. a stately Russian chatelaine, sail-: i for America a fortnight ago to raise funds for the starving Russian I intelligentsia she llttcl thought that j her visit to thpsc shores would causo a loss of $200,000 worth of her val- I (table gems. But that is what It has cost to date according to Madame, now stopping I at i lv Waldorf Astoria. i Madame Yon Petsclunko early toil to-il ny Informed International News Service that while journeying across the Atlantic on the Peninsula State of tho United States lines, some bold thief took her two hundred thousand dollar gems. A thorough search of ! i h ship failed to reveal them, she , said. Saturday, a week ago, necordlng to madame's story, she. wore all of her gems at dinner A gentleman from the west Chicago was the town ad- mtred them very much, n had nev- r seen any so brilliant. I When madame retired she placed the jewels In her trunk and locked it Sunday lnornlnc she took a constitutional constitu-tional around the deck The westerner west-erner joined her. Madame having thought of hr precious gms. had her kl with her, but no pockets tn widen to cdlTy them. She entrusted thf-m to the gonial gentleman After a bit of casual conversation he excused himself wanted a cigar ; or something. Half an hour later hp returned Madame was anxious. She got her ki y? from him and ran to her room Lo! Lkj! The gems were missing. |