The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-12-02
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OF LAWYERS

CHICAGO, Dec. 2 G.N.S).
The attorney for an Athenian ma
tron, come to Chicago as a Greek
seeking gifts rather than bearing
them, and attorneys for Samuel
insult will confer today concerning
the worth of the deposed utility
cars dress studs, his watch, and
ether articles of personal jewelry.
Nine Helene Coyimzoglu, wife Of
a prosperous date importer Of
Iraw, alleges insult promised her
the jeweled knick-knacks in APP
probation for her, aid in hiding
him from Federal process servers
in her Athens apartment in 1888
and 1884.
The once fabulously wealthy In.
Sun who now lives on modest
pensions granted him by the COM
panies he once ruled with an iron
will, continued to deny he was in.
debted to his Gree!s hostess, al.
though his attorney, Floyd e.
Thompson, admitted after con.
ference with Nine. Coyimzoglu's
lawyer, Peter T. Kouridas of New
York, that Mr.. insult may have
said he intended to make such q
gift.
DOO-Dads Worth $3.50
The insult family maintains the
jeweled doo-dadS Nine. Goyim-
zoglu seeks are only worth about
$3.50, and besides, Attorney
Thompson said, they are locked
up in safety deposit box in Paris
and Mrs. insult has the keys so
what can Mr.. insult do?
That, boiled down, is the Situa-
ticn as revealed to reporters in
Chicago today after the Athenian
beauty had completed her journey
from Athens with her lawyer, who
says she'll sue il she doesn't get
the trinketS and settlement"
AS for the trinkets, the case
would be simple enough but for
one thing. Insults wife is reported
to be unwilling to give them up.
insult himself, his lawyer says.
would be perfectly willing to give
up his watch and cuff buttons
and maybe even his hat and stick.
Only he can't.
KOurideS Explains
Nine. Coyimzoglu and her attor-
ney arrived on the Twentieth
Century, went to a hotel and
then emerged to face cameras
and questions. Kourides did most
of the talking.
He complained:
"My client has been pushed
around. (He picks up the
American vcrnacular rapidly
Or she has been treated very
unfairly. 1 am going now for
q conference with Insults solic-
itOr, who is, 1 have no doubt,
expecting me-"
He was right. Thompson was
expecting him. And the two were
in conference for an hour, after
which Kourides, looking hopeful,
returned to the hotel.
Merely Souvenirs
Soon afterWard Thompson re-
ceiVed reporters. He undertook to
make a number of things clear.
He said:
ut is really amusing to learn
what is back Of all this fuss.
We had been told that Nine.
COyimzOglu was seeking to get
back certain priceless gems
But it now appears the price
less gems were not gems at
all, but simply souvenirs the
lady had expected to receive
but didn't. insult, we find, is
accused of carrying away his
own watch and sleeve buttons"
"The story behind Nine. Coy
iYnZOglu'S great expectations con-
ceEning HnSull'S articles of per-
SOnal adOrnment is the story Of
the way the lady befriended In
sulI in Athens. 1t is true insult
and his wife were gueStS-pay-
ing gueStS-ih the Athens home
of Nine. CayimzOglu, but due
recOmpenSe has been made for
all that. 1t is also true that In
sulI was very grateful to Nine.
COyimzOgIu, but whether she has
q claim on his watch because Of
this, / do not know. Her lawyer
says that she says that insult
said he would give her the watch
to remember him blythe watch
and the cuff links"