Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-09
THE TIGER-EYE BROOCH,
A CHARMING KLEPToMANIAC AND
HER RICH BOOTY.
A Young San Francisco Lady. Well
Known in This City, Carries OF Her
Hostess Jewels-A Sad Affair Which
May Cause a Scandal.

A case OF well authenticated klepto-
mania came to the notice OF HERALD
reporter yesterday.
Some little while ago, a well-known
lady OF this city was in San Francisco,
where she met, in the course of her
society duties, young lady, the daugh-
ter of a San Francisco man who is so
prominent as to be well-known through
out the state. The young woman, who
will be designated here as Miss Marie,
expressed wish to see Los Angeles,
and the lady, who can be termed Mrs.
Blank, being pleased with the girl, in
vited her to return with her, and stay
for week or so, and the invitation was
accepted.
Miss Marie was very charming, and
during her stay here, made many
friends, and was shown numerous social
attentions. She was well supplied with
gowns, and had plenty of pin money,
which she spent freely.
One morning there was row in the
house. Several rings, set with valuable
stones, diamonds, opals and the like,
were missing, Apparently there wasno
clue to the thief. At last suspicion CEN
tered on girl employed in the family as
seamstress, but she managed to clear
herself, and the affair remained unex-
planned.
Soon another loss became known.
Mrs. Blank had remarkable Jewel, in
the shape of a brooch made of a tigers
eye surrounded with diamonds, a gift
from friend who had purchased it in
London. Its value was in the neighbor-
hood of five hundred dollars. Mrs.
Blank had not worn it of late, because
the fastening had become loose. She
decided to have it made into cloak
fastener, and went to the drawer of the
bureau where she had put it last, but it
was gone. There was another row with
no result, but Mrs. Blanks husband put
the matter into the hands of detective,
and Miss Marie left for San Francisco,
having had delightful time and taking
with her the warm regard of her hosts.
The detective went to work, and in
short time announced to Mrs. Blank
that the tiger's-eye brooch had been
offered for sale at well-known jewelry
store in San Francisco Soon the news
came that the missing rings had also
been proffered for sale at the same es-
tablishment. Who had them?
Why, charming Miss Marie.
Here was how-de-do. Kleptomania
at once suggested itself to Mr.. and Mrs.
Blank. but they wanted their jewels
back, and whether the girl was thief
or victim of mental disease did not
alter the fact that they were out nearly
a thousand dollars worth of jewels.
There could, however, be no doubt but
what the girl was kieptoma-
MAC, for there was no reason
in the world why she should
have stolen, for che could have almost
anything she wanted for the asking. So
Mrs. Blank wrote a polite note stating
that she would be greatly obliged if Miss
Marie would return the tigers eye
brooch and the rings which she had
taken.
So far, Miss Marie has not replied,
but the chances are that the jewelry will |
be down here very soon. Her disting- |
uished father knows nothing about his
daughters weakness, and will not, if she |
makes restitution, but if she does not,
Mrs. Blank will take the necessary legal
steps to recover her property, and then
there will be an internal row and no
Mitch hot