The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-04-11
A LITTLE DOG FOUND It
Mysterious Recovery Of Nearly All
the Jewelry Stolen at
John Aliens
The Robber Had Evidently Cached
It, Meaning to Return
For Il.
Only q Coat and n Gold Chain Missing
Now, and They May bo
Found Yet.

Tbs jevelry tnkon from the house OF John
W. Allen, Broadway and Shiland street, on
Thursday morning last. was all recovered
yesterday except a gold chain. The man
nsr OF the recovery is a. mysterious rs the
robbery was bold. At tho time of the rot-
berry. 1t will be remembered. a gold watch
md chain. a silver fob chain. n bracelet and
two rings, and a plush coat were taken, and
Mr.. Allen was hit on the head by the butt
end Of a Ratchet. He is just beginning to
get around the house, though not able as
yet to 90 out.
A little dog belonging to +. II. Wallace.
and which plays with his little girl, de-
serves part of tho credit for tho recovery Of
tho goods. The balance Of tho credit be-
longs to Mrs. Frances j.. Bracket. who
lives on Broadway, two doors ftom the
Allen house. Tho dog and the little
girl were playing in Mrs. Brackets
back yard yesterday morning. Mrs.
Bracket, having OCCASION to 90 to the
kitchen door, saw the dog Juggling and
playing with what looked like a small
black bundlet tied up in a rag. She stopped
loose and a lot of jswelry fell out on the
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articles and tied them up in what
had seemed to be a black rag,
but which was really q part of
a woman's dress. She remembered tho af-
fair at MI. Aliens, and went there imme-
diately with the find. Turning the things
out on the dining room table Mrs. Allen
at onoe recognized her property. There
was her gold watch and two rings, the sill
yer chain and the gold bracelet. The only
thing missing still was the gold chain and
the plush coat. The black dress body into
which the articles had been tied was also
She had not attached any value to it and
therefore did not miss 1t after the early
morning visitor of Thursday last had gone.
The supposition is that the party who en-
tered the Allen house and took the things
away was frightened by the alarm raised
and cached the dress body md the jewelry
rolled up in it at some convenient hiding
place near by, intending to como back for
it later. This idea IL carried out by the
fact that the dress body was perfectly dry
when found, although there had been a
heavy snow since and n continuous thaw
effect that the robber dropped part Of his
plumber as he ran and that it lay whore 1t
fell until the dog found it. The most reason
able theory. therefore, Is that the jewelry
was hidden in some dry place to be returned
for later or. The absence of the gold chain
! is unexplained, except on the theory TINT it
| fell out of the bundle and was lost some
where between the place where the dog
found the package and tho spot where Mrs.
/ Bracket picked 1T up. Nobody but the dog
and the party who placed 1T there knows
where the bundle has been lying meanwhile.
If that place could be discovered. the sack
and the missing chain may be found there
or in that Immediate vicinity. The chances
a Q the dog himself may make another
voyage Of discovery on his own account and
recover the remainder of the missing goods.