Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-18
HE BECAME A THIEF
Because His Employer RliuSd lc
Pay Hin.
An ETrns which tecolls an Ola
Sraudni, and may Lead 10
Its Unraveiling.

NEW Ohl<i Aug. lo.-lSlclRfu i.
WlsOu, ST., on June "a last, reported
al police headquarters That his mansion
on HI iii A venue had been Robbed the
ui4nG prevI.ns, anu that an entrance
mad been effected without the preSs.
Ing OF any door or wIudUw. rhe lie.
tecnves assigned to the investigation
or Inc DuIgl ry learned that Albert
V. Sugueu, IOtmsr valet OF Mr.. vii.
sJL'', nau Desu IN the house ON twD
OCCASIONS after he had lett toe latter
employ, and that no oue knew how he
hBu obtained an entrance.
This Information was the oasis OF
the suspicion that csustd the former
wet To be waicno ny the authorities.
Fiuslly detect v. whose name is
also Albert Suguen, gailed ihs COZ.
Il eucs OF the suspected youHg nsu an
hIaly un IRON Inc latter tue ne.
tails VI lh= robbery an the inside pat
tIcuiRis OF a cut which the valet hld
brought against Mr. Wilson ior allege
detecti7s services IN seeking 10 dis.
cover the author OF scurri ouJ letters
Gtlackiog Mr.. Wilson's dxusuter, now
MIS-. CJrnsiius Vantsrbilt, Jr.
These Istters whicn appeis4 "a -tSoout
the time o. tue marriage were written
on letter psper OF two Of the most aris-
tIcralic NV York olubH, ana created
great sensation.
Decay Sugden wrote to the youpu
Eng sJm'i that oD accou 1t of the
slmllarity and odjDees VI their name.
they must be relatives. The vale. r.
piled to the note AID 5000 an appeI.
emily strong irienhshIp sprang up he.
tween the pair. Young Sugusn gave
MS nam sake sealed envelope O n.
tanning u receipt iUr Mr.. Wilson,,
jswelry, which had been placed the
uay alter tbs robbery IL the vaults OF
the New jersey Title ami Guarantee
comlauy, j sissy CITY. Toe suspect,
while Deiu, ebaJowsd, was found 10 b.
cousorting with su .x-cpLvlct wa,
hao just bseu released tom the Hinge
oJunty penitentiary.
In tue face OF the eviJencs the &C.
cused broke Town ard confessed the
crime, and the jswery was rec v.
cred.
Young Sugden in his confession SAYS
that he worked Tor Wilson for fifteen
months, but let on February 8 last.
He was employed by WIIsIn TO dis
cover the auiLor Of the mysterious let
ters out ialIed. AlteTwarJs he applied
cause his former employer would not
give him q Recommendation. Sui
later on Mr.. w llson got uim q D isitiou
Ms "spostsr" on q Brooklyn elect rio
road, from which position, alter a few
weeks, he was discharged.
Then he brought suit against MI,
Wilson or the money alleged to be due
nIm, 81 $50 for detective work.
On Juue rs SIgdeu says he found
the bssemeLt uUUr OF the Wilson man-
hion OF gu, and entering ne went to the
third floor unobsetveJ. Ffom the
roJms OF Richard +. Wilson Jr, anu
Rybsrt GOoiet Jt. he admits taklug the
money and jsWelry anu got out OF the
house without being sesn by any nns.
He intended, n said, to send the lew.
eiry TO his sweetheart In Engiau 10
De nelu uutil biz suit against Wilson
had been settled q ID then II was uIs
ilea to return the vslusbles to tneif
owners.
On Sugden, who ID under arrest two
letters, wiitlen by convict III the
Columbus, OJio, penlten,iar,, Were
found. the writer is "A l7-yesr-jid boy
named Richard FIR ncis Pau Ksut
whose prison number is 1881, ana
his prison name is II onRrd Pioc,or.
The latter, 10 one Of Them, says thai
he knows the author OF Tue scuIrilvus
Wilson missive, and that 10 issrIcn
club man VINO is an euemy OF tn Is
Vanderbilt anu Wilson family, and
That he has oil sTsd tue c0nvio $780,
through a c1usi Tor hi, s,l,nee.
Tho sec0rd letter rom the OlI
prisoner reaut:
az, II chard Paul Kent, do swear IN
the name OF our AIm,ghy God L.
heaven that the slanueteT VI NJ .. &.
Vanderbilt JE, snail confess his Elm.
beioro those whom he mas sianusred
and Injured uuiustly. Let ustice DO
done uulo all humanity Dy II onaid
Z. Kent"
III auuition the convicL say. that ne
will be released On Ju Q ., 1898, an,
that he viii be InIepsndu-t alter
July 8. 1901.