Show GUARDS GUARDS WATCH SEAMANS SEAMAN'S GRAVE U S Agent May Open Coffin Cof Coffin fin In Search of Russ Crown Jewels NEW YORK Ja 5 The Tho grave Brave of James Jones a seaman at the th Na- Na National National Na National cemetery In Cypress Hills tIllIs IJames Brooklyn Brool yn was guarded today tolay by cem- cem cemetery cemetery cem cemetery because o reports that William B Williams special agent of I the treasury department would seek legal permission to open the coffin to see lIeo If It any part of tho the Russian crown crownI I Je jewels cis had been secreted there The Jewels according to a copy COpy- copyrighted copyrighted rIghted righted story by the Chicago Dally News were smuggled Into this country September 1920 In the coffin of Jones who died on the transport Edellyn at GIbraltar on August 30 1920 while the ship was on her bel way from Vlad Vlad- Vladivostok h VESSEL SEARCHED A sale of part of the gems had beep beel arranged in 1919 by a a New York ring according to the story anti anu three men after a dispute Germ n and Croc- Croc lio ho Slovakia ho-Slovakia officials finally obtained d them On the way nay ay back to this country the tho stor story goes one ono of th crossed his companions all aid placed the jewels In se seven en packages In coffin cof- cof tin fin The Thc treasur treasury agents lents got gT an Inkling of the story at the time and It a t has been esta established that tho the transport was searched upon her arrival hell heir but the Je jewels els were not found toi-nd The I coffin was kept on board for tor 23 3 dl days d and as no the relative could be found It a was burled In Cypress Hills Mr Williams while declining to comment In detail on the story has re- re reluctantly re reluctantly admitted that ho be has been working on a Russian jewel jel j Ml Casa caso and that thit his search might lead him to open the grave WILL USE BUCKSHOT Anthony Bu Buschman ident ot of the cemetery at Brooklyn disdain disdained ed cd any knowledge of or the case He ad admitted ho eer that Jam s Jones Jone had hadI I been burled buried in the cemetery Septem Septem- September September ber 23 1920 I I feel teel there may bo be something In Inthe inthe Inthe the ne newspaper report he ho tall laid and hereafter I shall hall maintain a 11 strict watch natch v atch of the gra grave grace e I ini lm a n pretty good shot and if It anone anyone attempts to Interfere w nith Ith that thai grave or any others for that matter he will III bo be greeted with a charge of or buckshot |