Gangs Renew Activities After Lull: British Subject Loses Emeralds Harbin, June 7.
After a spell of comparative quietness, gangsters have renewed their activities here.
After withdrawing ¥.5,000 from the Yokohama Specie Bank, a Mrs. Koraneff was attacked by three Chinese armed robbers, who knocked her down and attempted to seize her handbag.
The woman shouted for help, and two of the robbers were seized by some Russians and Japanese who ran to her assistance, Meanwhile, L. Moly, 20, son of a Jocal industrialist, has been kid mapped by a gang of criminals, who fare demanding a ransom of ¥.15,600 for his release.
Moly was returning to his home in the Pristan district at about. midnight when he was seized by unknown gangsters, bundled into a motor car and rushed away.
His father has been Informed that he must pay ¥.15,000 if he wishes to see his son alive again, Pebbies as Emeralds charge of obtaining possession of 1,160 carats of emeralds belonging to Mr. Pickersgitl, a British subject.
After examining the emeralds on several occasions, Rozenhardt said he would buy them and called at Mr. Pickersgill's home ostensibly to close the deal, When the sale price was agreed upon, Mozenhardt sorted the stones into two envelopes, or so. it seemed, He then sealed them because, he explained, this would obviate the necessity of re-checking the collection when he returned in an hour's time with the purchase money, After three hours, Mr. Pickersgill opened the envelopes - only to. find that they contained pebbles packed {in cotton wool, instead of the jewels. Rozenhardt was subsequently arrest-fed by the Manchoukuo police, "While {in gaol, he wrote a letter to his wife, who had fled to Tientsin with the Jemeralds, asking her to return them, All except 29 carats have now been restored to the owner, 'A Swiss named Rozenhardt, alleged hypnotist, has been arrested on a
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