The sun., 1891-01-30
MRS rArrERsoNs sroLEy pr4nosDs.
Former Mail Boy OF the r,rh Avesue
Hotel Arrested for the Then.

lit.le over year ago Q lad walked into tho
Firth Avenue Hotel and aske! ior a place a.
LaH 10y He was apparently alou Is years
Old, strniGnt as IN arrow and jus' about rs
slim. with tnwny SKIN aud Intensely black hair.
This raven hair was stiff and TN nron:follabie.
and when he remoPeI his cap Il stood up on
the TOT Of his head aud made him !opk Ike an
Indian. He said lie cane from The Wrs-
and was French Canadian. and be gave
re'erences'rou hotel keer-ts H. Detroit Grand
Rapids. Saginaw, AID Chicago. Ho was made
hail boy 81 the hotel he sad tie name was
John D.luce and pretty soon tie wa known
among the hall boys Us Indian Jack" He
was lazy. ana lost his lob. bu; got another
a. the Hoffman House Charles Green an-
other hall boy al the Firth Avenue II Jtel was
his chun. and remained g. after Delucs had
lost mis- Hoffman House lob and got 10 10 valet
Tor a gam bier " no lived iu Twenty sixth street,
but suddenly departed for Lurop. three
months ago.
Mira Celia Y. Patterson, weIl-tn-do widow
OF Evansville, Ind. hns TOR the las, hal dozen
years been at tn. Filth Avenue twice y. ar
MeF s.i's are avn's & in ,hs fSsinS ss X @p M
relativra just ,e'ore last Thank wing Day
she ~ rived II th. hotsl and beg q hei u-uhi
on the second noor. ON Nov. ~ she remained
ip tho hot. ali day aud at : T. n. afternoon
tuo went WIKI E'f iEicn "a 10 t'i' t!'u 'a- ! UiI
she was gone nearly al hour, hrd III he even
ing she discovered that her pocketppok was
missing from a hand satchcl in her room.
Dete"tiv" Mclhillip- found 'hn' on the man
telpiecs was q vRtcA stud Iel " ID diamonds
ana IN the hand ba,chsl where tn missing
purse had been, was diamond jowelry worth
$4,000 This included diamond aud 'm"rh.d
rings diamond eArr.nLs diamond bra ei..s
and stars, and other valuable 'rlnkrth. But
the missing purse couid not he found. ltwas
large leu her pocke'book and curta ne one
hundred d. liars, ono par oi dtaIuund earrings.
dou bi.tB two Of the stone weighing four and
o half cRra's aud III. other two three An1 u
halt ono diamond brooch. diam nd bruce.
= pair OF diamond earrings. win sappLi;ee Hg
the collection a. elght thumeani dollGrs,,
An inE.stEatlon sho"ed that nooody mad
thore lust after Mrs. Patterson aud her rien4s
went down stairs 10 d!nh-r. Green went IN
10 deliver package wtthnut consulting the
cnnmherinad. and. MrFh'llips suys si,h
false key Green was callyl aud his trunks
wore searched. tut nothing "ame OF It
on Dec. he threw up, his place and pres
emily IL was learned that he had gone tu v ash
inRton with Indian Jack. They wer" located
in Saginaw. and on Tuesday Green 1as al
rested Jack Ia Tad got o4t Of the way aI Green
sAuIEAw. Mich Jan. ~. About two weeks
ago Green. alias Howard, came here and be-
gan visiting dis equitable houses and max
Ing presents 0! diamonds 20 the IL
reached the police and tho man wac shadow
cd. and Chief Kahn telec auh-d TO New York
and Chicago tIAt supposed diamond thiei
wns IN the city, 10th those cities aeked Tor
fled themselves that lie was not tho man they
wanted but Inspector Eyrnes WAS convinced
that hs was the Fi'th Avenue HoteI thief. and
telegrupnsd the poire L. hold the matI.