The record-union., 1897-04-14
TW0BOLD DJEWELRY THIEVES.
They Robbed Simon Sturmer'S Store
Last Evening.
Captured by Captain Fisher and Ofii-
GER Maley-Loaded With
Stolen Goods.

Police Captain Fisher and Officer
Maley made clever and very important
capture of pair of Eastern crooks last
evening. The prisoners give their
names as Steve Smith and Robert Har-
ley, alias w. ]. OBrien.
They are stylishly dressed, nobby-
looking fellows, who have all the
outward signs of gentlemen of leisure,
but they are no doubt a couple OF the
slickest thieves in the country But
like many others who had committed big
robberies elsewhere and escaped detec-
ton, the thieves had only to come to
Sacramento to find officers sharp enough
to "get onto them and clap them in
Jail.
These two men entered Simon Stur-
mer's jewelry store in the Pacific Hotel
building, at Fifth and K streets, early
in the evening and asked to be shown
some ladies' lockets. Sturmer set out
tray of goods before them, but after ex-
amining the trinkets for a while they
said they did not suit and wanted to
examine some buttons.
Another tray was set before them, but
the goods did not suit, and then they had
tray after tray of jewelry of various
hlIlQS TAKEN Out 1OI lliSpeCllOu uIllll ScN-
eral We're displayed on the top of the
showcase. They could find nothing to
exactly suit their fancy, though they
handled and inspected dozens of arti-
cles of jewelry, and departed without
making any purchases.
When Sturmer came to gather up his
goods and rearrange the trays he dis
covered that several articles We're miss
ing. He telephoned the police station
and gave partial description of the
men.
Captain Fisher and Officer Maley
started out to see if they could find
the suspects. They soon encountered
two men on Third and K streets who
struck them as being strangers but
they were so well dressed and there
was such an air of gentility about them
that the officers did not feel certain
they We're the men they wanted. So
Captain Fisher decided to shadow them
while Maley went up to Sturmer's store
to get the jewelry to go and look at
them.
While he was away one of the pair
went to a pawnbroker's office and got
some money for some article he had
pawned. Fisher watched the trans
action, and when the men started off
up the street he was close behind them.
They had not gone far when Maley
and Sturmer met them, and the jew
eler informed the officers that the men
We're the ones who had robbed him.
The officers accordingly arrested
them, put the handouts on them, and
escorted their prisoners to the City
Jail first taking in the pawnbrolIer's
office and securing the jewelry pawned
there. 1t was a lady's fob and chain,
with diamond setting. and proved to
be one of the articles stolen from
Sturmer.
When the men We're examined at the
police station all of Sturmer's missing
jeweiry was found on them, and
great deal more that the Sacramento
storekeeper never before had seen.
Among the articles found on the pris-
oners other than those stolen from
Sturmer, was a diamond cluster ring
with eight or ten stones and ruby
in the center; a ring with emerald
stone, a plain gold ring, a skeleton sill
yer ring and other articles of jewelry-
One Of the men had a Wells-Fargo re-
ceipt for something sent to Los An
geles, and the officers suspect that they
had been operating in that city on their
way hither from the East. The Los
Angeles authorities will be communi-
Gated with this morning.