Word: sheftel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Florence Sheftel Bache, divorced wife (1925) of Financier Jules Semon Bache of Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room...