New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-19
WONANACCUSED OF FORGERY
INDICTMENT OF MISS ALICE l. JONES.
JOHN b. YATES. HER EMPLOYER. BELIEVES HE
HAS BEEN ROBBED OF 800 -JEWEI.RY
PROCURED On FORGED ORDERS FOR
SEVERAL YEARs-SHE CONFEsSES
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ONE FORGERY. THEN RETRACTs.


ONE FORGERY. THEN RETRACTs.
warrant was issued yesterday from Part II. of
the Court of General Sessions. in this city. for the
arrest of Miss Alice !. Jones. who has been EN-
poyed for several :-ears confidential clerk by
John b Yates manufacturer of watch and
jewelry No. &c Maiden Lane. The warrant charged
Miss Jones with having forged the name OF MI
Yates to "a check for So. An indictment against
her was found by the Grand Jury Tuesday. Miss
Thomas ~ Jones. She is tweniy-tnree years old,
is pretty and b in asa se hSs borne he the
tation of being one of the most capable and trust
Mr.. Yates was seen last night his house, No no
West Eighty -hfth,s and was re uc'ant TO dsclss
investigation which he had been making for several
months with tie ala Of Sentrai oSe Yes
years he had robbed of 100000 In jewelry ana
9e3s He Believed that the hevery he'd been going
for ;ong time, and was responsible Tor his faii-
Il always haG he most implicit confidence in Mss
he Sd aHa he and are 70 ey pr Tt
sons who knew the combination Of the safe ! mad
accused her of having stolen a diamond ring on
forged order from The National TRIBUNE, OF Wash
down, ana took The rms from her bosom 1on.. mad.
Mrs. Yates at the Hotel Majestic. She adH,itel.
S ~sfch " caaes from + Myers co. iarse Whole
sale jewellers At No. 81 Nader Lane Thei ;io, WIN
oil
her stealing. The next day she went 10 Mr.
Yates and said she had been hypnotized into max
ing the COME on ara I'D not know what she was
about She brought back the stolen goods how
ever and the Grand jury found no indictment
Miss Jones's method. according TO her employer
was 10 send out 10 other jewellers IN Maiden Lane
for goods ard to sign her employers name TO the
orders upon which the goods were procured The
hooks OF the John Il. Yates Company are In SUCH
a tangled condition, the result OF her work
Thai il is Impossible at present TO know the extent
OF the forger:es Startling Developments are prom
.sel In n few days 49, -,
MIR Yates believes that Miss Jones was acting
under the influence of some one eise and he says
there Is evidence to justify the suspicion that a CON
snIracy existed to embarrass his business aHaTs
Last Saturday night truck drove up TO the door
of his store and expressman said he HAD peer
ssnt there 10 get a large package Of watches ana
fewe,ry There evidences that a safe roobry
was I'M ended. but Mr.. Yates does not suspect MISS
ZONES OF being implicated in this
Detective Cuf yesterday attempted 10 serve the
hut che was III from nervous prostitution. ana her
nhys ican positively refused TO allow the warrant TO
be served. A..
In Orange Misc Jones has been noted for the
fashionable rigs that she drove and people wondered
how 4, was that she could cut such dash. In
her vacations she frequently went - Saratoga
and other expensive resorts Her father is mas
Ter mechanic in the New-York Postoffce, at
salary of $500 year He has five children, ranging
in age from twelve 10 twenty-five years.
II was impossible last evening 10 get any story
brother Thomas ". Jones. jI, said The who.e
affair is attempt or the part Of the John H.
Yates Company to saddle my sister the RESPONSE
ti'itv for their own insolvency"