Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-20
CAnErR OF A YOUNG THIEF.
ne ~ said 20 Bsiopg 10 Prominent
Family.
New York Tribune.


"a tH,,o,ry lie has been doing excellent
b,,sSress as thief, and without taking
,,,,,.b t,o,,l,le HISS work was done so
"Is,'',i, ,iai although complaints have been
sn,,,,,,. In ia Inspector ByrnoS nearly every
A., toy The lasf two months from persons
S,'to haze lost property through the agency
y, MS vounC man. nc had until last Friday
,ing,a The police. Tie complsinants. in
i.ov,nr The description of The man who had
ro,Icd them, agreed W!:h each other eX-
ac,i,. so that the notice had on abundance
Of description, but they could not get the
man.
"Gcod afternoon" said darkroom.
plcXiorcd, suo1fh.faccd, fashiorably.dr ess-
I'd Young wan, showing prO'usc amount
oi eolG filing 10 his front teeth rs he kept
on his everlasting smile 10 Mrs. Cameron,
Of No. $50 west Filly-scycnth street, few
days ago. lie was U-hcrcd into the plrlor.
snd Sid "My dear Mrs. Cameron. ! an
sorry HAT | could not get around to see
you earlier. but your husband did not call
at The Office until nearly noon, and ] bad
several places 10 90 70 on my way up
Mrs. Cameron ASSURED him that she did
not know anything about #, and he con-
tinued:
"Oh! I'm from TIC PhUnix Insurance
y
2 survey o. your personal property. II
will only take q few moments, II YOU viii
kindly show use through the rooms.
Mr.. Cameron went with The pleasant
Young man. who never forgot 20 smile, I'M
III the bedroom was reached. and then he
remarked that he bad left his book in the
parloi ard asked In bis hlandes; way il
Mr.. Cameron would ret II for him. She
did so. lie then made careful entries in
The book Of her properly. and was busy
calculating, when The lady went out OF tine
room again. She returned quickly o. the
Young man was huricdlv putting some.
thing IN bis pocket, and he immediately eN.
cllsrd himself. saving that everything was
al right and smiled himself away. He hal
gone safe distance from the house when
Mrs. Cameron discovered that Der bureau
had been rlllod and a diamond ring worth
1850 was gone.
She wa. frantic, more at the way she had
been deceived than al The loss OF The ring,
bul lcr feelings were quoted in a measure
Nv seeing Hitter on the floor which the
thief had droppod. She hurried TO ln,pcc-
tor HyTuCs with The letter. ana u gave him
thC cicw 10 the thief.
working on The ease, bu' had made little
headwav. They found that the thief had
several ways Of working" houses. At
one Mace be would Toe an insurance agent,
nj another he represented himself as coming
from Kuayp's iufnshing-stOre 10 measure
The hotsf for understands, and again he
had been sent to iii the beds with springs.
when be paid n pleasant visit 10 Mrs.
Heard Of No. ~ One-IIundrcd-and-
Twcptv-scyenih street he was a piano
Tuner, aud when he got to where the piano
wa. Standing he ran his hands over the
KEYS end shrugged his shoulders in French
DISGUST. to be in keeping with his assumed
French accent.
Would The good lady be kind enough
b gCt some hot water 10 wash the grease
"a the koysi" be- asked, plaintYcly. she
went into the hall t0 call a servant. was gone
Just a moment, and after The piano had been
tuned aud the tuner had gone away after
collecting g for his work ,hc could not
find icwerv wcIth - 100, which had been
carefully Put away in nm adj lining room.
The detectives, by following up the letter
which Mrs. Cameron brought 10 Inspector
Pyrnc,. found The man in a house in
Scy,niy-Giih street near First avenue, aud
arr6sic,, him. lie WAS highly indignant
when Ihc officer, told hm that hc was I'M
der arrest. and protested loudly at the in
dignity offered 10 q gentleman. He went
along nevertheless. At police headquarters
he said his name was William 4. Will
lams, his age twenty-thrcc, and that he
lived at the Grand Union Hotel. Be
yord denying the chargt upon which
be wa, arrested he would say nothing.
ON saturday out 81 forty persons
who have been robbed seventeen appeared
at headquarters. and when the thief was
placed i'm line with number OF persons
they all picked him out as the DianO-tuncr,
the insurance man, or some one else who
had robbed them, even though he had for
gotten To smile. lie has been taken TO
court since he was arrested, and was re-
handed 10 the custody Of Inspector
ByrncS. when the Thief saw That he was
caught so that be could not escape. he
broke down and cried piteously, and told
the story Of his criminal life.
Gambling" he said, has been my
ruin. There seems 10 he a spirit within
ne that is constantly calling me 10 20 to
the camblin table. Try however hard. |
could not resist. | have sold my coat and
nv wai,tcost to Get money 10 play red and
black and have gone without food and
spent my last penny ut the glmbling-table,
hoping that my luck would turn. have
never won. II has always been my luck
me on. " hen my money was gone would
steel 10 get money to play Will"
Tie letter spoken 81 is dated in thi, city,
and j. from Young lady who is said 10y
Ius,cctor Byrncs 10 be "A member OF one Of
The wcalthit.t families in thus city. II is "a
love letter and disclosed the real name 81
the thief. lie also belongs to one of the
most prominent families in this city. and
has brother who is prominent in politics.
The name given by the thief !, "a fictitious
one. Inspector Byrnes did not think that
tie end, 81 justice would be aided by giving
his real name or that Of the Young lady,
when asked for IT, \ portion Of the letter
reads:
81 hereby agree that Mr.. -- Qhc
iheis nance is my intended husband, and
4 shall not receive the attention Of any
other gentleman" Then follows profes-
sion Of love and devotion that Is to last
forever, and the letter ends with the words
." am engaged" written four times i'm
large letters above the name Of the young
man. The real nature Of the young man
TO " HON she was 80 much engaged was
broken To her Yesterday by her brother,
and she was Frustrated with grief and is
under medical care. That the young hdy
knows what he j. has not been
told To WilliamS.' Inspector Byrnes has
found that Williams" stole 800 about
siX years ago from a room in the Windsor
Hotel. where he had been living. He was
arrested and s,nt 10 a reformatory. where
he served a year and a half. civilians "
went in q carriage with two detectives yes
terduy aud got back a portion OF 'he stolen
property which had been plwned. The
following are among the persons robbed
Mrs. Oakley, PSI west One-llundIed'and-
TWenty-siXth street. icwelry, 5000; Mrs.
Cameron. jewclTv, Sij0; Mrs. Waterbury.
No. 15S east Fiity-ft.h street, $40; Samuel
Heard, No. 1871 west observation-disclosures
Twenly-seVCnth street, Sl,l00; Mrs. Wood,
No. 49, west Observation-Disclosures third
street. $500; j. Lord, l53 JOTalemOn street,
BROOKLYN, $3.50; J. Lakeland, No. II
Spencer placc. Brooklyn, 5000; +. 7.
TIyer, No. i2S west sixty -iirstStreet, 1890;
Il. +. PIingi, No. so west Onc-Ilundred-
and-Fourih street, jewelry, 500; q. ".
Darling, No. 522 west observation-disclosures
Tweniy-third street, $3.50: Thomas House,
Fourteenth street and Third avenue,
$3.50: Kate Fox, No. 81 west Eighty-third
street. $500; Mrs. Johnson, $500. The
property was principally jewelry aud
watches. All the lost property mentioned
has been recovered.
Another case Of theft by a supposed
planotuner came 10 light yesterday through
a personal" in one Of the morning
papers. The victim this time is Mrs. j.
Baldwin. who lives in one OF the iiats OF
fbe Alexandria. at sixth avenue and Fifty.