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Only the most skillfully concealed jewelry, fountain pens, watches or spectacles will escape pilfering from these ruffians. If they should discover an earring or a bracelet hidden in a seam of clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
Suddenly, at one of these halts, a blue Ford station wagon hove in sight, coming down from Konitsa. Out of it tripped a hatless, trim figure of a girl wearing woolen stockings, bobby-sox, a grey, fur-trimmed coat with an emerald bracelet peeping from the sleeve. "Hail, Boubou-lina!" bellowed the bishop.* The girl was Greece's blue-eyed, curly-haired, blonde Queen Frederika...
...tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with her jewels. He first got Zsazsa out of bed in her black chiffon negligee, she said, and took the diamond ring, diamond bracelet and diamond necklace she had been sleeping in. Then he got the stuff off the night table, and the box full of diamond odds & ends on the floor under a chair. Zsazsa's estimate of the take: at least $500,000 worth. Police estimate: $150,000 at most...
...Edward L. Doheny III (whose grandfather-in-law was Oilman Doheny of Teapot Dome fame) was out a $3,000 bracelet-strayed or stolen, she didn't know which. Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls...
Restored to dazzling old Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, at police headquarters, was the bracelet she had lost on opening night at the opera (TIME, Nov. 25). It was only a $5,000 affair of 140 diamonds and seven emeralds, but she loved it, and to the woman who had found it on the opera-house floor Mrs. Kavanaugh gave $250. While reporters and photographers watched closely, the loser, in a Norwegian fox jacket and pearls, and the finder, in something modest in black, made the trade. The finder, who used to be a cook, guessed she would...