The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-18
GEORGIA GIRL IN JAIL.
Pretty Ethel oliver, n Nurse in Seney
Hospital, Brooklyn, Arrested as u
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From the New York World.
A Georgia girl is the center of a sensa-
tion in Brooklyn. She is charged with
stealing a gold chain.
The fair culprit is Ethel Oliver, % years
old, well bred and intelligent, who. dur
ing the last few months, has been a
probationary nurse at the Methodist Epis-
copal hospital, better known as Seney
hospital, Seventh avenue and Sixth street,
Brooklyn.
with letters of recommendation from the
physicians and clergymen of Growers
Vile, Ga, where she lived with her moth
er. She had been in hospital service Ue-
FORE and the superintendent had no
| hesitation in appointing her.
Within month after her admission
a number of petty thefts were commit
ted, and from that time until Sunday hard
~ a week passed without complaint
from a nurse or patient that something
had been taken.
The thefts began early in August in
the wards. and were principally of money
the patients missed s. from a pocketbook
left on her bed She said it was taken
while she was asleep.
An inmate who was dying was robbed
of 81, all the money she had. She passed
away before the larceny was discovered,
but her kinsfolk reported it TO the su-
perintendent. Another woman lost $50.
and various articles of jewelry and cloth
ing were taken from sachels and trunks
of the patients, which are kept in the
storerOom.
The nurses live in an annex at No. 5O4
Seventh avenue They had done all in
their power to discover the thief, and had
about given it up, when they too, began
to miss things. Then the police were call
ed i'll.
Detective Sergeants Reynolds and Weis-
er settled on the store room as the begin
ming for their research. They found the
room was always kept locked, and that
none but employees had keys. The thief
therefore had. either false key or had
legit innate access to the room. They
found that of all the people who had keys,
Ethel Oliver the new nurse, had lnVar1-
ably been on duty when the larcenies We're
committed They also found that no rob
berries had been reported before her ad-
As soon as the detectives began their
work Miss Oliver reported that she had
been robbed. and gave an elaborate list
OF articles missing, including black serge
dress and jacket, a red silk vest, a black
leather purse, with her initials in silver
on NE NE Baap and above all, her . Bible;
my greatest treasures; it was a Sunday
school prize"
Yet the detectives suspected her, ana
for the last two months Miss oliver has
been watched. She roomed with Mrs.
Calklns, also nurse. 50 greatly was Miss
OhNer disturbed over the robberies that
she bought a tin treasure box. 1t had two
keys, one of which she gave to her room
mate, asking her to share it with her.
Mrs. Calkins, highly pleased at this pro-
posal, placed her jewelry and purse in the
box. One day she discovered a s. bill was
missing. but as she had carelessly left her
Key on the bureau, she took 1t for granted
the thief had found it and had opened the
box.
As late as last Thursday both Miss OIL
lyer and Mrs. Calkins were complaining
that the maurauder had entered their
room The detectives applied to Justice
Walsh for q search warrant, but as they
wanted to search every room in the build
ing the justice refused it.
On SUNDAY one of the nurses reported
that 81 bill had been stolen from her
room The detectives became desperate.