Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-27
DIAMONDS AND MYSTERY.
A Remarkable Robbery and
 Rich Reward.
AN ARTISTS SINGULAR STORY.

AN ARTISTS SINGULAR STORY. He Says a Philadelphia Patron Sent Him
 SaS,ooO Necklace to Paint on Her
 Portrait, and It Was Stolen from His
 Safe-S6 900 Reward Offered.
 NEW YORK, Feb. PA morning paper contained a remarkable advertisement, offer ing St, ,0O0 and mo questions asked, for the return of diamonds taken from the safe" in the studio of S. J. Cowley, Mo- 34 West | Fourteenth street. Reporters who called at that address to investigate learned of rob l bery quite as remarkable as the advertise ment To them Artist Cowley related the l following:
 ''I have been painting portrait of a Phila- l delphia lady, and completed it on Saturday. l She is the wife of a wealthy shoe manufac- turer, and she owned the diamonds. She wanted them i'll the picture, and, as it would have prolonged her sittings number of hours to paint them into the picture while she wore them, the jewels were left with me. Her last sitting was on Tuesday, and that day she gave me the jewelry. On Saturday the pict- ure was finished and I sent it to her by Adams express. was intending to send the diamonds on Monday. On Saturday night about 6:30 or o'clock went out to dinner. l returned at 7:30. The first thing that caught my eye after l unlocked my door and stepped into my studio was that the door of my safe stood ajar. I knew did not leave it so I drew the door open and saw that the jewels were gone.
 "Every thing else ill the room was just as I l. loRL .A ! -l-.-- L. Al 1-- in the same compartment was untouched, the door of the room was locked, and there was no sign that any one had tempered with the windows. I could not believe that the dia- monds were gone. I must have put them somewhere else,' thought and began hunt I looked in drawers and everywhere, even under the safe, but without avail. The next day telegraphed to the lady. She came, and we decided to try the advertisement I had no idea it would be noticed ill this way" The room where this remarkable robbery was committed is on the fourth floor of one of the houses over Collins dry goods store. MT. Cowleys sign, with two pictures of actresses under it, is the most conspicuous one at the door, but there are also signs of two other artists there, and those of number of dressmakers and dentist Mir. Cowley's room is large one at the back of the house. Around the walls are portraits of William H. l Vanderbilt, Gen. Grant, the Rev. Sam Small, | a number of actresses and of others. In one 1 corner stood a large unfinished drawing of 1 handsome, smooth checked lad.
 ''That is the lady's brother" he explained, | land here," he said, drawing photograph | from the drawer of center table, 's the l lady herself"
 It was the picture of pretty woman of 25
 perhaps, in an evening dress of white silk
 The name, which had been penciled on the
 back of the card, was rubbed out, and the
 name of the photographer cut off the bottom
 'Who is the ladys" was what every one | wanted to know.
 "l have told you all I can," Mir. Cowley
 protested. ''She will not let me give her
 name. She hoped to get the jewelry back | without letting her husband know about its
 loss, and that was why offered such large 1 reward"
 Her habit ill sitting to him was, he said,
 to come from Philadelphia in the morning or
 afternoon and to return at night. She had
 been coming two or three times a week for a
 month. "Her husband did not want her to
 have the diamonds here" he said.
 | curious feature of the case is that neither
 the police nor any one ill the building were
 told word about it.
 MT. Cowley described the jewelry accu- rately, and exhibited drawing which he said
 was made from it. According to this there
 were two pieces-a necklace and brooch,
 made to match. The brooch was in the form
 of a horseshoe, with three big diamonds and
 three little ones at the bend, and four big
 ones on each side. The necklace had thirteen
 stones in it, big one in the center with six
 on each side. Between the diamonds there
 were links connecting with little diamond studded horseshoes, and there was a gold pad : lock to fasten the ends.
 1; "The jewels, said Cowley, ''were mounted ! in novel manner, and were, she said, pre- sented to her by her husband. She said they were worth $2s, 900, but I think sl2, ,OOO o1 $l5, GOO is nearer their value"
 } A dispatch from Philadelphia says that the wives of thirteen shoemakers have been in } quired of, and declare that no shoemakers wife in Philadelphia has $2s, 900 worth o1
 diamonds. The lady, MT. Cowley said, wa: | tall, and wore long seal ulster and @ plusf | hat trimmed with feathers.
 3 It is curious coincidence that a woman o , this description, who said she had been robbed 5 of diamonds, was arrested yesterday morning , in the neighborhood where Mir. Cowley saie ) he met bis client last night.
 r It was , o'clock in the morning. A pretty , woman in seal and plush and a tall man witt a big curled mustache had just come from t rustaurant, where they had been dining to l gether The man was accompanied by I colored valet. On the corner of Thirty frs D street and Sixth avenue the woman stopped ? and began violently abusing the man. Sh' ] accused him of having robbed her.
 "You took my diamonds" she cried, Ian,
 ssnt them to Philadelphia"
 Then she struck him. She was arrested f and the man accompanied her to the station . house. Her name she said, was Florenc - Maitland. She was fined $1O in the Jefferson . Market police court. She paid it and wen - away.
 Mir. Depew's Personal Opinion. | NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-There seems to be
 general impression among the Republican r. leaders here that Mr. Whitelaw Reid edito f of The Tribune, would be the New Tor Y o& na. r,oI