The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14

Two Men and a Girl Caught-Were
Pawning Valuables for one-eighth
Their Value-Eugene Leroux and
Jane Dole Claim to Have Eloped
From Paris.
From the Philadelphia Press.
New York May 5-Eugene Leroux, a
young Frenchman, his pretty and youth
full wife, who says her name is Jane Dole,
and Herbert Gollander, 43 years Of age,
lately of 1863 Christopher street, this city,
compose what the Williamsburg police
think a most successful and adventurous
trio of European iewelry burglars. al
though there is still doubt as to how the
first-named couple got into possession of
about $4,000 worth of diamonds and other
iewelry found in their squalid quarters,
92 Berry street, across the river.
The first supposition was that the valu-
ables had been stolen from the Count and
Countess Of Flanders of Belgium; but
now those interested in the case gave
it as their conviction that some Paris
iewelry store had been looted, or that the
fine collection in the Bedford Avenue po-
lice station was the result of several
wholesale burglaries.
roux, after all was a French 1eweler, who
had taken the course which led to his ar
rest simply TO get his stock into America
without paying the $40, 600 in custom du-
ties. 1t was agreed by all. however, that
the arrests have revealed one of the most
important and biggest smuggling cases
ever perpetrated in the port of New York
FIRST NOTICE OF THE GANG.
Last Wednesday Capt. Short of the
Fifth precinct, received a message from
Joseph j. Friel, pawnbroker at 1902 Grand
street Williamsburg, that two men had
pawned two diamond rings, diamond
locket and gold watch for S25.
Detective Sergeants Corcoran and
Hayes Immediately went to Friels and
looked at the iewelry. 1t was all new
and the amount asked was about one
sixth of the actual value. A watch was
set on ETiel's pawnshop.
About > O'Clock yesterday afternoon a
decidedly pretty little woman turned out
of Bedford avenue and walked straight to
the shop. She pawned four diamond rings
which Fesembled those previously offered
by the men. She received S25 for gems
worth 5000. When she came out Detect
ives Corcoran and Hayes followed her.
She went in Samuels pawnshop near
Keap street.
Detective Hayes followed her. II was
found that she had received so for dia-
monds worth about eight times that
amount. just as the woman entered
Lewis pawnshOp, near Lorimer street
the detectives saw her take from under
her wrap several pairs Of bracelets and
ladies' chains. She received soon them.
SAID THEY WE'RE HER HUSBANDS.
She was arrested The girl could not
speak English and jabbered away in
French. She said, through AN Interpreter.
The goods are my husbands. He gave
them 10 me 70 pawn. We eloped from
France to get married He was "A waiter
in Paris and my people objected 10 our
marriage. We got here about a month
ago and We're married in the city hail
We lived IN New York until last Monday.
when we moved 10 ~ Berry street"
When the matrOn from the Humboldt
street station arrived she was searched
Beside about two dozen pairs Of bracelets
found pinned on the inside Of her wrap
she had roll Of bills amounting tonearly
800, thirteen rubies aud q package Of