The Portland daily press., 1875-11-06
THE JEWELLERY ROBBERS.
Their Return TO this City and>the Receive.
ry of me Property

1t was stated in the PRESS yesterday morn
ing that Boston officer had arrested two of
the robbers of Carter Brothers jewelry store,
and that Deputy Marshal Bridges was going to
Boston to bring them to this city. When Mr..
Bridges arrived in Boston he discovered that
one of the men was we'll known theief nam
ed Daniel De Wyer. and that he had just been
bound over for highway robbery. The second
man was George Haney, another thief, who
was arrested for stealing harness. just be-
fore the officer arrived the third man, Charles
L. Bean, another thief, was arrested. 1t seems
that when Haney and DeWyer were arrested,
the former told the officer who arrested him
that if he would let up on him he would tell
him something worth knowing OF course the
officer promised, and the fellow told that De
Wyer and Bean had been to Portland and rob-
bed jewelry store. This opened the eyes of
the officer, and he saw a reward of $3.50 look
ing him in the face, and accordingly he made a
visit to Portland. as above stated. Bean was
looked after by another officer and arrested as
above. As De Wyer was bound over in Bos-
ton, Deputy Bridges took Bean and Haney and
brought them to this city. He arrived on the
midnight train, and took the men at once to
the station. They are both young looking mena
and their faces are quite familiar in Portland
They took the matter as huge joke, and chat
ted as merrily as though they were free. Both
of them have fine education, but as the Bos-
ton officer remarked, 'they can't help steal
ing" Bean belongs in Maine, but declines to
say what part of the state, and he was very
anxious to have the reporters change his name.
The rings were recovered in Boston, and
Deputy Bridges now has them. Quite a
number of them were found sewed up
in Haneys shirt when he was arrested,
while the others had them hidden in different
places on their body. The men tell different
stories In regard to the robbery. De Wyer says
that the three men met early in the evening
and planned the robbery, and that he staid in
the door while Bean went in and grabbed the
tray, and when he came out he (De Wyer) took
the tray and ran around the corner of the
street. Bean says that De Wyer went into the
store and got the rings and then ran off with
them, and that he and Haney were unable to
find him. They searched the city nearly all
night but were unable to find him. They stop
ped while here at the United States Hotel. and
De Wyer was in his room that night with the
rings, while bis two companions were prowling
about in the rain after him. De Wyer kept
away from them Sunday, and at night took
freight train and went to Boston, rings and all.
Haney and Bean, it seems, went to Blddeford
Monday on the train, and Beau committed the
robbery there, and then both returned to this
city and remained here until Tuesday evening,
when they took the boat for Boston. Arriving
in Boston, they at once started in search of De
Wyer, to make him divide. Bean said be was
determined if he did not do so he would smash
his head with billy which he carried. The
two started down Friend street and went into
saloon to get drink, when, to their surprise,
they met De Wyer. A few angry words pass
ed. when, ere they were aware Of it an officer
came in and arrested Haney and DeWyer fer
other crimes, leaving Bean. As the two pris-
oners were about leaving the saloon in charge
of the officers, De Wyer handed Bean several
rings to keep him still. The above story is
probably the true version of the whole affair,
and it is CLEANED by conversng with the pris
oners separately.
Deputy Bridges has gold chain taken from
Bean when he was arrested, which corresponds
with one taken from jewelry store in Bidde
ford. Bot the men brought here had engaged
counsel, and Haney's had instructed him not
to come with Bridges unless be produced re.
QUESTION, but after talking with them some
time they consented to come without getting
requisition. and probably both of them will
plead guilty to receiving stolen property. 1t is
thought bv the officers that De Wyer is really
the man who committed the robbery. but that
all three of them planned it. The case was
worked up in Boston by Capt. Ford, patrolmen
Harvey and Lynch of Station Three.