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Show oo AGENTS OFFER BOGUS RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS THE HAGUE, Dee. is. Europe's I newest scheme for defrauding tlie unwary Is that of selling supposed I Russian crown Jewels. Knowledge that ; Some very valuable Russian Jewelry, onflscated by the Bolsheylkl has ac-, ac-, tu iiiy bean sold in Holland, recently h is prompted a number of shrewd confidence men to take advantage of I Dutchmen desiring to buy something : i bee p. The Hague police swooped down the Other Tiight on a group of men In a Utile Ut-ile cafe, who, with their intended victim, vic-tim, were negotiating for the sale of thirty-four "pearl" necklaces and sev. eral packets of loose " pearls" which Were Whispered to have been BUrrep-tttlOUSly BUrrep-tttlOUSly sent to Holland from Moscow, Mos-cow, and, therefore, were for sale 'heap. Only one of the necklaces was found I to be genuine All of the Olh. is. and also the loov packets w made up, of imitation pearls. The real .ji' ac- cording to the police, was uned as "bait." I |