The record-union., 1896-07-06
THREE SUSPECTS In JAIL.
The Story Of a Diamond Ring, a Guitar
and MuSiC-BOX.
Crooked Work of Which Two Elk
Convicts and Another Man
Are Suspected.

ABOUT TWO Weeks dSO oCiAAAAC L uihSA, +,
one of the unfortunate women of the
town, pawned diamond ring, saad TO
be worth S125. to another fallen woman,
known as 'Iutey," for a few dollars,
with the understanding that 1t was to
be redeemed the next day. But Wnen
the next day arrived Lutey, who is a
decided blonde, informed the Turner
woman. who is colored, that thieves
had entered her house and broken open
her trunk. and that the ring had dis
appeared.
About a week later Anita Para, a
well-known woman living in the vicin-
ity of lower L street. reported to the
police that handmade guitar, val
red at S75, and an in1aid music box,
valued at 500, had been stolen from
her house. officers Higgins and Doug
las were detailed to work on the case
and were not wrong in coming to con-
clusion which, they say, subsequently
proved a corerct one.
Gus Hanson, alias Johnson, had been
EMPLOYED by Anita Para for some time,
acting as porter, which position he also
filed for several of the unfortunate
women on L street, and he was at once
placed ON the list of suspects. Hanson
Is considered a very smooth article by
the police, having been several times
convicted of having burglars tools in
his possession. Besides this, he was a
very good friend of the woman Lutey,
and the officers concluded that he knew
something about the ring and the mu-
sical instruments.
Two bosom pals of HanSon'S, Jack
Roht and Chester Allen Che latter col
ored), were suspected of having had
q hand in the operation, and they were
also kept in sight
In the meantime the officers had
found a small colored boy-destined to
be an important witness in the case
who slept in Lutey's place after she
closed up each night. The little fellow
stated that the evening the instruments
disappeared Hanson knocked on the
door, which he opened, and carried in
the guitar and music box. which he
put an Lutey's trunk. The boy asked
him to whom they belonged, and Han
son answered that they were his own.
The boy made no objection, evidently
knowing the relations existing between
Lutey and Hanson, though he asked
the latter why he did not put them In
his own room.
Douglas and Higgins, after satisfy
ing themselves that the boys story
was substantially correct, raided Lu-
tey's place, opened the trunk, and
found the things, as described by the
boy.
Then the woman told her story. She
said when she returned in the morn
ing after the burglary she found the
stolen articles in her trunk and ordered
Hanson to remove them, which he did,
slowing them away under the floor OF
the house, and that he must subse-
quently have resurrected them and
placed them in her trunk without her
knowledge.
The upshot of it all was that Hanson
was arrested several days ago, while
Iutey and the two men, Roht and AL
len, were locked up last evening.
It is believed that the mystery of the
missing diamond ring will be cleared
up before the matter ends, and that
Roht and Allen, the former Of whom
has spent two terms, aggregating thdr-
teen years, in the States Prison, viii
be found to be accessories before the
fact
The officers consider that they have
a clear case against Hanson
The officers learned last night that
f1dIlSOn y pIiiIS even WtIIl " tLS Ca
tent of committing a murder, IL neceS-
sary, in order to rob the Para woman.
Anita Para is the landlady of num-
Der of the crib dwellers on L street
and nightly collects her one-dollar rem
tai Of each, amounting TO quite sum
The story goes that Hanson wanted
to put up Job to rob her some night
after she had completed her collecting
tour among her tenants, and proposed
TO Allen that he should knock her on
the head" at a convenient time and
place, and that they would rob her oi
her easily earned coin, even though II
consisted Of silver.
Having done this, they were to man
ifest great zeal in the effort to run
down the murderous thugs, and thus
throw the police off the scent. Wher
the matter had quieted down. or some
one else had been arrested on suspicion
they were to slide out of town.