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Show FINNISH COUNTESS FACES DAMAGE SUIT NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Countess KJordls Rlddcnstad, of Finland, who I has been In Jail a month In default of lit). 000 bond as a nonresident appear-1 Q .Monday in tho supreme court as defendant In a JIB, 000 damage suit) ! brought by Garl Kllpplo for nondellv- 1 ery of a painting by the Russian artist, Ilju Rapln Kllpplo bought tho claim from Dr. Henry Holm Dr. Holm testified that In 1920. while returning from Finland on the . ' same ship with the countess, she sold him a picture for $10,000 representing! i it to have been ont hung In the palace pal-ace of the late Czar Nicholas He ; j said the picture wa i never delivered and, owing to the advance in price of ( the works of HJa Rapln. tho claim Is now worth $5000 more than the pur- 1 chase price of tho picture. The countess contends that sho Is not responsible for the failure of the ' picture to arrive. |