The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Remains Away Half Hour;
Victim Visits StaterOOm
and Discovers Loss.
HUNT is UNSUCCESSFUL
Peninsular State COmbed From
Stem to Stern and Sus-
pect Searched.

| Detectives of this city and special
operatives employed by the Unite.N
States Lines, As Broadway, are trying
to solve the mystery of the disappear
ance of jewels valued at 100000 from
trunk in the stateroom of Nine.
Bronislava Lamprect Won Petschenko
while she was travelling to this coun-
Peninsular State. The vessel was
searched from stem to stern, as well
as at least one passenger and several
members of the crew, but no trace Of
the jewels could be found. Nine. LAM
prect Won Petschenko is satisfied that
they were stolen and feels certain they
never will be recovered.
Nine. Lamprect Won Petschenko-
her name is compound of those Of
her first and second husbands-is at
the Waldorf Astoria, and Is in this
country to raise funds for the relief
Of. the Russian inte!ligencia who are
among the starving refugees in the
slums of Berlin. 1t is her first trip to
the United States and. although a lin
guist, she speaks English poorly Her
first husband was Boris Won Petschen-
ko, professor of bacteriology in the
University of Petrograd. He was
killed by the Bolsheviki in the revo-
luton. Kurt Lamprect, her present
husband, is the owner of large paper
mill in Poland not far from Warsaw.
Jewels That Are Lost.
Most of the jewels. of which there
were seven pieces. were left to her by
her deceased husband and were heir
looms of the Won PetschenlSo family.
Nine. Lamprcct Won Petschenko insists
that their intrinsic value is $500, 900.
not 100000 rubles or the same number
Of marks. She said that their sentiment
tai value is beyond appraisal The ar
ticles included a diamond bracelet. a
pearl collar, a ring with two large dia-
monds, a lavalliere with large sapphire
pendant, q ring set with large dia-
mond surrounded by sapphires and a
plain gold band wedding ring.
Nine. Lamp-ect Won Petscnenko said
that she wore most Of the jewels at din
ner a week ago last night aboard the
Pennsular State. There was "a man
from Chicago" at the table, she said.
who expressed great admiration for the
jewels. saying he never had seen their
like before. The Jewels were returned to
black bag IN her trunk at / o'clock the
following morning. That was the last
Mime. Lamprect Won Petschenko saw of
them.
After breakfast Sunday the IMAM from
Chicago" who had struck up a conver-
sation with her. asked permission to es-
| cort her on a walk around the deck.
Mime. Lamprect Won Petschenko said she
was carrying the keys Of her trunk In
her hand and not having pocket In her
sport Jacket to put them in asked her
escort to hold them for her. Some time
afterwa-d, she said, the stranger sug-
gested they sit out In steamer chairs. but
before sitting down himself he said he
would go to his stateroom to get his pipe.
The stranger was absent half an hour.
she said, and when he returned he
wished to know II she was going to
dress for dinner.
Owner of Jewels Suspicious.
The prolonged absence of her escort
with her keys aroused her suspicious,
Nine. Lamprect Won Petschenko said,
sc she demanded her keys upon his re-
turn and went Immediately to her state
re ON, which adjoined that OF the stran-
ger. Going inside she opened her trunk
and found the Jewels were missing. She
rang for the steward, called for the cap
tain and then swooned. When she was
revived she told of her loss and search
was begun. All her baggage was gone
over. but no trace of the jewels was
found, and the stateroom OF the stran-
aer also was searched, the electric light
sockets even being examined.
Between then and Friday morning,
when the Peninsular state docked here.
| virtually every nook and corner In the
vessel was searched. Capt. Fried the
skipper, had sent a wireless message 10
! he home office OF the company. and
many detectives and customs officials
were on hand when the vessel docked.
They also searched the steamship and
particularly the imam from Chicago.
whose socks even were turned inside
out, but with no result. Before Nine.
Lamprecht Won Petschenko left the yes
sci J. @. Summit purser, gave her a
| letter directed ito whom II may con-
cern," IN which he stated that he and
the other officers of the vessel were sat
isfled that she had been robbed OF the
Jewels
Mime. Lamprecht Won Petschcko is a
woman in her early thirties. has q
wealth of black hair and flashv dark
eyes. She retains the name Of ner first
husband as a form of memorial to hiri
and had the same name entered on hci'
passports. She displayed writings of the
late professor In which he prtned his
wife for the help she had given him In
laboratory work. Her trip here and the
appeal she Is going to make In a coun-
trywide tour are in line, she said. with
the ideals and aims OF her late husband.
When NJ. Won Petschenko was killed
all his Russian properties wero seize ]
by the rebels. but he left to his wife
several large estates In that section OF
Austria and Russia which now Is
Poland. She was not In Petrograd when
her first husband was slain and mad with
| her. she said. tho. jewels now missings