San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-18
A MEAN NAN ARRESTED.
he Was A Thief and A
BlaCkmailer
WAS EMPLOYED AS A STREET
CAR SP0TTER AND AL
SO AS A VALET.
Gets Fired, Wants Revenge, Enters
His Former Employers House
And Robs The Place Of Costly
Jewelry Which He INTENDED
Sending Away To Europe

New York, August 1S.-Richard L.
Wilson, ST., on June "a, last, reported
at police headquarters that his man.
sion on Fifth avenue had been rob-
bed the night previous and entrance
had been effected without the break
ing of any door or window. The de-
tectiyes assigned to the investigation
of the burglary learned that Albert
| V. Sugden, former valet of Mr.. VIII
sons, had been seen in Wilson's house
on two occasions after he had been
discharged from the latter's employ
and that no one knew how TO obtain
an entrance.
This information was the basis of
the suspicion that caused the former
valet to be watched by the authori-
ties. Finally a detective stool pig
con-, whose name is also Albert Sug-
den, gained the confidence of the sus-
Ipected young man and finally got
from the latter the details of the rob-
berry and the inside particulars of a
suit which the valet had brought
against Mr.. Wilson for alleged detec-
tive services in seeking to discover
the author of scurrilous let
tiers attacking Mr.. Wilson's daughter,
now Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
These letters, which appeared about
the time of the marriage, were writ
ten ON letter paper of two of the most
Iaristocratic New York clubs, and Great
ed a great sensation.
Decoy Sugden wrote to the young
Englishman that on account of the
similarity and oddness of their names,
they must be related. The valet re-
piled to the letter, and soon an appar-
emily strong friendship sprung up.
Young Sugden gave his namesake
sealed envelope containing receipt
for Wilson's jewelry, which had been
placed the day after the robbery in
the vaults of the New Jersey Title and
Guarantee company, Jersey City. The
suspect, while being Swallowed, was
found to be consorting with an ex-
convict who had just been released
from the Kings county penitentiary.
In the face of the evidence the accus-
ed broke down, confessed the crime
and the jewelry was recovered.
Young Sugden, in his confession,
says that he worked for Wilson for
fifteen months, but left on February
8, last Later he was employed by
Wilson to discover the author of mys-
FERROUS letters, but failed. Afterwards
he applied for positions, but failed
to get them because his former en-
ployer would not give him letter OF
Still later on Mr.. Wilson gave him a
position as "spotter' on Brooklyn ell
ectric railway from which position in
a few weeks he was discharged.
Then he brought suit against Mr.. Will
son for the money alleged to be due
him, 81 ,030 for detective work.
On the night of June the %, Sugden
says, he found the basement door of |
the Wilson mansion opened, and en-. |
tering, he went to the third floor I'M
observed. From the rooms of Richard
Jr., and Robert Goethe, Jr.,
he took the money and jewelry and
got out of the house without being
seen by anyone. He intended, he
said. to send the jewelry to his sweat
heart in England, to be held until his
suit against Wilson had been settled,
md then it was his idea to return the
Taluables to their owners.
On Sugden, who is under arrest,
wo letters written by a convict in the