The herald., 1896-05-10
The Burglary of Major Tru.
mans House
THE JEWELER DETECTIVE
0oodmau's Russian Tactics Again-How
He Disposes of Suspects
Three colored Criminals Get severe Sen-
tences-1ulcahy Sent to Jail Tor Eight
Years-General Court News

Investigation into the burglary OF
Major Rem Truman's house last Novem-
her. when about $1,000 worth of jewelry
was carried off, was pending yesterday
IN Judge Smiths court in the case OF the
people versus G. $. Bryant. Inc case
for a long time baff1ed the endeaVorS Vi
the detectives, but Goodman,1n bagSlhs
Bryant. evidently believes he has spot
ted at least one of the guilty ones. Dur
ing the afternoon proceedings, when
the Russian Tactics" detective was on
the stand, there were some interesting
DEVELOPMENTS as to his methOdS OF pro-
ceedure with suspects.
Mrs. Truman was the first witness for
the prosecution; she was shown Gus
ter diamond ring in peculiar settlhs'
The ring she positively identified as her
property and believed the diamonds to
be hers because they fitted the peculiar
setting so perfectly. In cross-eXamina-
tfon the witness admitted that she
would be unable to pick out her d1a-
monds if among a lot of others similar
in shape and size. Several other arti-
cleS of jewelry were shown to Mrs. 1ru-
man. but she could not identify them as
her property She had first seen the ring
after it had been stolen from her when
Detective Goodman showed it to her
Major Truman. W. r. Smith and De-
tective F. L. Benedict We're other wit
nesses examined in the morning.
Police officer Rico was subjected to
lengthy cross examination as to the
dates on which he first saw the prisoner
and on which he first heard of the burg
larry On one occasion he became so con-
fused that he answered, The day before
the burglary occurred I heard of the
burglary" but his testimony had been
perfectly clear that he saw the defend
ant the day before the burglary and
heard of the burglary the day after it
took place.
Entelman. a manufacturer of jewels
and dealer in diamonds, deposed that
he bought seven diamonds in January
last. He could not tell if the diamonds
in the ring produced We're those he had
bought then. Goodman took six of the
diamonds he had bought. He had never
seen the defendant before. He paid $55
for the diamonds.
J. w. Young gave some evidence as
to another brilliant solitaire diamond.
which General Williams thought must
easily be worth $500, and almost blind
ed the eyes of some of the jurymen.
When Mr. Young first took the stand he
was reluctant to state the whereabouts
of the diamond in question, but on be-
ing promised the protection of the court
said that it was in certain safe deposit
vault and then left the stand to get it.
Mr.. Young said he had bought the da-
mond on the 18th of January from a man
named Miller. The diamond had since
been set in ring. Major Truman was
recalled and identied the diamond as
his property. In cross-examination the
major said that some two months after
the burglary Goodman brought the dia-
mond to him and said he could get it
back for 800, but he refused.
Il. q. Collins of Pasadena identified a
photograph of man named William
Miller, who it is believed was Bryant's
partner, as the likeness of a man who
called himself Williams and endeavored
TO sell him six diamonds. He identified
the six diamonds in court as those which
Williams" had tried to sell to him.
Detective Bradish testified to the ar
rest of the defendant on the night of
January 10, and Detective Goodman was
then put upon the stand. The witness
said he knew defendant and had seen
him in company with Miller. He found
defendant in Miller's room. Miller had
said he bought the big diamond from a
gambler in Colorado Springs After
Bryant'S arrest he made statement to
witness that Miller told him if he got
hard up he could sell the stuff which he
(Miller) had hidden near the reservoir
Bryant told witness that he and Miller
had been friends for many years and
had been together in various places
Witness testified as to the exact way in
which the six diamonds fitted the clus-
ter ring, and was apparently very anX-
1ous to show his technical knowledge
of jewelry. In fact the detective ad-
mitted that he had been in the iewelry
business himself for thirty-five years
and in his present profession for only
nine. Most Of his jewelry experience
had been in Russia. He professed to
known nothing of having made clock
which went off an hour before it's time
and resented counseHs insinuation that
1t had something to do with blowing up
the czar Witness had told Miller that
ne had better clear out of the city be-
1ore twenty-tour hours We're up or he
would take care of him. Where
asked counsel do you get authority to
order men out of town."
Those are Russian tactics" respond
ed the witness.
"Then if they don't get out of town
you make IL your business to arrest
them
Yes, if they're criminals"
ii you cannot make out d case against
man, you charge him with vagrancy?"
That's for you to find out"
witness, continuing. said that he had
arrested defendant on the 9Th; it might
be the 18th or 18th that he laid a com
plalht against MN Tor Nagrancy, and the
complaint for burglary was entered on
the 21st.
Counsel asked Goodman then why he
did not lay charge of burglary against
defendant as soon as he arrested him.
but received no satisfactory answer.
Witness said that he had asked defend
ant where Miller was, but he had never
SAID that defendant would get off if he
told him.
The defendant, Bryant, was then ex-
amined. He admitted that he had pre-
viously been in the pententiary, and
also that he had sold the cluster ring.
The case was continued till Monday.
New i1formations
Informations We're Yesterday filed nv
the district attorney in department one
against Ed. Parker for entering a South
ern Pacific railroad car on burglary in
tent; against George Abbott and Ru-
dolph Leon for the robbery OF Anton
Thomas of $l5 on the 18th of April: also