The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-10
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ANOted Thiers Guilt Revealed by "A
Mirror I'm His Cell.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
1t Vas on the rear platform of Third
avenue cable car, bound up town. on
Friday night. The car was crowded and
George Phillips, Jr.. mineral water
manufacturer, OF No. 1,19O Second avenue
was jammed up against well dressed
man about fifty years old, who looked
as If he might be a banker or business
man with a profitable trade
The stranger had a scarf Of silk wound
around his neck. He remarked presently
that it was very warm, and began to un-
wind it. He did this with elaborate ges-
ticulations, and the end Of II nestled for
a moment upon the shirt front Of Mr.
Phillips, which had been adorned with a
5000 diamond pin.
When the scarf fell away from Mr.
Phillips shirt front a gentleman on the
platform gave a start Of surprise. He was
Mr.. Louis Greenwald, and his eyes had
been glued on that pin in wrapt admira-
ton. The car had reached Fifty-third
street, and MIR. Greenwald. who got on
twenty blocks below and who sighted the
diamond the moment he got on, and had
been thoroughly enjoying himself
That's the brightest diamond for its
size I've seen for a long while" he said TO
himself. There was no necessity for him
to ask Mr.. Phillips IL Il were n real one
He could see that right enough.
But when the stranger removed the
scarf away from Mr. Phillips shirt front
and Mr.. Greenwald's hungry eyes. de-
prived for a moment OF the bright treat
on which they had been feastng, again
sought the jewel it was not there.
He knew at once that the elaborateIy
gotten up stranger had taken Il during the
moment 1t had been covered apparently
entirely accidentally by the silk scarf
Mr. Greenwald spoke up Indignantly:
THAT man took your diamond He clicked
thief"
The responsible looking citizen who had
flicked the scarf got indignant Mr.
Phillips felt for his diamond and realized
that some one had got 1t, and that some
one wasn't Mr.. Phillips.
Mr. Greenwald continued to denounce
the scarf flicker saying that he was POSI-
tive that he was a thief. Passengers on
the car Joined in the discussion, express
ing the warmest sympathy for the scarf
man and assuring him that he was the
victim of a cruel blunder
But Mr.. Phillips, who might have be-
leved in the innocence Of the stranger If
he had been charged with taking some one
elses pin, did not feel amiable under the
loss. The car got to Fifty-hfth street.
and then the scarf flicker, still perfectly
cool and with a great air Of injured limo
cence, got off So did Phillips, and he fol-
lowed the stranger into saloon and de-
manded the return of his stone. Then he
asked Policeman James Fahey to arrest
the alleged thief. and the latter was taken
to the East Fifty-drst street police sta
ton.
The prisoner denounced his captor and
said that every one connected with the
outrage would be made to suffer. Police
men who had a hand I'm it in any way
would be dismissed from the force and the
laymen would have to pay heavy dam
ages Fahey felt a little nervous as he
delivered his prisoner up TO the sergeant
at the desk
The prisoner gave the name Of Henry f.
Kane, 81 years old, and assured the ser
geant that he was an Englishman of die
tinction of No $50 Broome street. He
denounced the course OF Phillips and Of
Fahey in well chosen English and insisted
on his onnocence.
He was searched thoroughly, but no dia-
mond was found. The police were inclined
to release him, but Phillips insisted on the
charge being entered, and eventually the
man was locked up, still protesting and
demanding that the British ambassador
at Washington be notified so that he might
order a gunboat to repair to New York
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released
Detectives Lang and Campbell came in
soon after, and learning the details of the
arrest fixed a mirror in such a way that
they could see the distinguished prisoner
in his cell without his seeing them. He
paced up and down for some minutes like
a Gagged lion, but presently the detectives
saw him glance about him and then FUN
BILE with his whiskers.
He produced therefrom diamond pin
Then he took off a shoe and hid the dia-
mond in the toe of it. Ten minutes later
the dete ctives went and removed the dia-
mond thinking that 1t would be safer
in their keeping than in that OF the pris-
oner, who, they said, was Henry f.
King, alias Davis, alias Happy. alias Kane,
a very "slick" diamond thief, who never
takes anything but the best gems which
are rarely recovered. Mr. Phillips identi-
fed the diamond as his.
In the Yorkville police court yesterday
the distinguished looking Mr.. Kane was
held in 81 500 bail.
A DEED WORTH s2O.OOO,OOo.