Show jewels missing after death of kaisers wid widow OW army investigators believe foul play in loss of crown treasure BEBLIN BERLIN an investigator for the U S army declared it was possible that princess hermine widow ol 01 germany s last kaiser met with foul play at the hands of under world felons seeking a fortune in crown jewels this development in the hunt tor for missing jewels valued at from to 2 was disclosed disclose d by director 0 it carlucci of the army criminal investigation department rus russian authorities have been asked to aid in the investigation of the bizarre case poisoning has been hinted at the princess died at frankfurt on the oder in the soviet zone her son prince ferdinand reported to authorities that 29 pieces of jewelry which had belonged to his mother were stolen from his trunk while he was living in the american sector of berlin the prince told police this was part of a royal treasure of 95 pieces which was brought to him from his mother by a woman emissary who smuggled them out of the soviet zone two months before the prin cess death no mention of cause carlucci said he was going to the russians with a request for anfor mation on princess hermine s death and added we would like assurances that the princess died of natural causes for there Is the possibility that she met foul play at the hands of under world characters who may ha have eb be lieveld she had more gems carlucci said he had a stat statement met from a friend and former physician of hermine who had been in recent correspondence with her he told us that she was in alpar ent good health and not suffering from heart disease as some sources have said carlucci declared soviet controlled reports of her mine s death consisted of a single sentence and made no mention of the cause carlucci said his agents were pur suing clues which lead us out of our sphere of operations beyond the borders of berlin and into the rus sian occupation zone doubt story he said the CID was suspicious of intrigue involving underworld characters who knew of the treas ure in prince ferdinand s posses sion not satisfied with some angles of ferdinand s story of the digap asap bearance pe arance of the gems carlucci said we still have to produce evi dence that the missing jewels s were stolen from the prince when men the alleged theft was reported to us and we entered his home we were amazed that he had taken no pre cautions to secure the remainder of the treasure we found part of the remaining jewels in the upended up ended trunk and another part lying in an open pack ing case on a table near an open door facing out int into 0 the street the prince himself told us that he suspected rass russian ian agents who knew of his treasure and were shadowing him at the time it if that was tribe true he should have taken bet ter care of the jewels the prince said the theft occurred after he lost one of two keys to the trunk |