The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-19
SUCCESSFUL THIEVERY.
Two Negro Women Get Away With
Two Thousand Dollars.
A Well Planned and Well Executed
Crime.
No Arrests Made as Yet.

~~J AAASSS
robbery was committed at 4O7 Bayou Road
in the residence Of Mr.. Lewis Reed.
The thieves entered the house either by the
side gate or front door, which from various
circumstances connected with the affair was
evidently opened from the inside by an &C.
complete of the thieves living in the house.
Suspicion tends toward negro girl about
sixteen years of age, named Ella, who is
employed in the house as chambermaid. The
| Cause Of Suspicion
is that black woman named Caroline John
son and another, Lucy Wilson, a Peniten-
tiary bird, were in the habit of visiting this
girl Ella and the co,ored cook, Mile Robin
inson, who is the mother Of Caroline John
son. Mrs. Webb, the sister of Mr.. Reed, was
informed that Lucy Wilson had been con
vict, and for that reason forbade her to come
again to the house or to enter the premises
but that Caroline Johnson frequently after
that came to the house and was in the habit
Of going through the different chambers and
knew well where the valuables of Mrs Webb
were kept, and from other circumstantial evil
dence the guilt Of the robbery is laid at the
door of the two colored women. assisted by
A Penisen;iary Canvict
named Ed. Cabral, who is supposed to be the
husband Of Lucy Wilson, and who, it is
| thought, laid the plan of the entire affair
and brought into his service the house girl
Ella. Ga hearing of III 3 robbery a representa-
tive Of the BULLETIN visited, last night, the
house Of Mr. Reed, 407 Bayou Road and gained
her brother, Mr. Reed.
On Wednesday Morning
Mrs Webb Was disturbed by a noise in her
room like thu rustiing of the win low curtain,
but thinking nothing more of the matter
turned over and was about to go to sleep,
when she heard footsteps in the passage and
sound like 1.-THE rustling Of woman's
dress. Alarmed at this, she jumped from
the bed and to her utter establishment found
her door, which she had locked before retr-
ing, wide open.
The voices of females were then distinctly
heard by the lady, upon which she rushed
into the passage-way, and as she went to the
head of the staircase, she sawa
A Sudden Flash,
as if match had been lighted in the hall
below, just behind the dining room. Mrs.
Webb states that she can take an oath as to
the identity of the two parties who committed
the robbery, for as she went to the top of the
stairs, they blew out the match, and Lucy
Wilson said,
"You Can't Get Out There's
The voice of the woman, Mrs. Webb says,
is as familiar to her as that of one of her own
children. The lady immedialy called her
girl Ella and her brother, Mr.. Reed, and
informed them Of the robbery, accusing the
girl Ella of having
Let the Thieves In,
and demanded that she Immediately go with
MIR. Reed to the house of Lucy Wilson and
Caroline johnson, which is situated on Poym-
MIA, near st. Charles street, the two women
occupying rooms in the rear in the second
story Of the kitchen. The girl told him that
she would go in the morning, and Mr.. Reed
and his sister went to find out what had been
taken, when they discovered that they had
been
Robbed of Two Thousand Dollars
worth of jewelry and about S135 in green
backs.
The door of Mrs Webb's room had been
opened by the use of ''outsiders," as the
marks Of the teeth were visible on the key,
and the armoir had also been opened
and her little leather travelling companion in
which she kept her jewelry had been stolen,
which contained the following articles
Two pairs of heavy gold bracelets, pair of
solitaire diamond earrings, ring with sap
phire stone and sixteen diamonds encirclirg
it, a gentleman's doublecase gold watch and
chain, gold locket solitaire diamong ring,
and several other valuable rings and gold
trinkets belonging to Mrs. Webb besides
eighty dollars in money, being in four twenty
dollar bills They then went to the lady's
pocket, searched it and stole fifty-fiye dollars
more in money, being in four ten dollar and
three five dollar bills
Mrs Webb is very confident that some one
in the house was implicated for they went
to the spot where she kept her
jewelry, and took from her pocket the money
which she had been seen with during the |
day. The next morning
Clue TO the Robbery
was discovered. A boy about IS years DID, |
by the name of Phillip W. Ainphole, who
works for an old baker, was going home in the
morning, and in the vacant lot on Miro, be-
tween Onzaga and St. Bernard streets, found
the leather companion, which contained one
diamond ring and the family pictures and
papers of Mrs. Webb, which he immediately
took to MIR. Reeds house and delivered them
up.
Later in the day, German named Louis
Beckman brought to the house writing desk,
which he had found on the banquette, on
Miro, at the foot of Lapeyrouse street, con-
tanning the panara and receiDtS of Mrc Wabh |