The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-24
CHLOROFORMED AND ROBBED
THO USAND DOLLAR DIAMOND AND
 S1,450 IN MONEY STOLEN.

in n Hack by Captain Brewer Car
 Starter auinn's Detective Work-A
 Strange Quartet Implicated im the
 Affair.
 A colored man giving the name of Leander Leon and colored woman claiming to be Lalo Leon, his wife, were arrested yesterday forenoon by Patrol man J. J, McQueeney, assisted by Car Starter Quinn of the Fair Haven and Westville railroad, on the charge of stealing a $1,OOO diamond and S1,4OO in money from colored man who gives the name of Active Alexis. The theft is alleged to have been committed in a hotel on Union street. It seems that saturday night the two colored men and the colored woman mentioned above, with white woman who claims to be the wife of Alexis, but gives the name of Madge Leonard, went to the hotel and engaged two rooms, one of which the two men were to occupy and the other the two women. During the night, however, they all went into one or the two rooms and when Alexis woke up yesterday morning about 8 o'clock he discovered that Leon and the colored woman were gone. He then got up and found that his diamond was missing and, as he also claims, $1, 400 in money
 After this discovery Alexis rushed over to the Western Union Telegraph office and telephoned to Captain Brew CT at the police headquarters asking that detective be sent down. While Alexis was in the telegraph office Car Starter David T. Quinn, who is sta- tioned at the corner of State and Chapel streets, near by learned of the theft and obtained a description of the two persons who were suspected of having committed the theft. In response to the request Captain Brewer sent De- tective Sergeant Dennehy and Patrol man F. Hayes to the hotel. While these two men were becoming ac- quainted with the details of the case preparatory to making a search for the suspected couple, Starter Quinn saw a carriage drive down the street to the Western Union Telegraph office and a colored man jump out and enter the office. In a few minutes the man came out of the office and entered the car riage, which was then driven up Chapel street. As the carriage passed him MT. Quinn saw that it contained a colored woman besides the colored man, and from the rapid glance at'them which he caught he thought that they answered the description of the couple wanted.
 Quinn followed the carriage up and ran until, he caught up with it on the corner of Church and Chapel streets, where he saw Patrolman McQueeney and told him that the couple in the carriage were wanted. McQueeney ar rested them and took them to police headquarters in the carriage. At head quarters they gave the names mention ed above and denied all knowledge of the cause Of their arrest. They were taken into the detectives room by Pa trolman McQueeney and there, assisted by Captain Cowles, he searched them, without, however, finding either the di- amond or the money Captain Brewer was sitting at the desk in the main of flee, when suddenly it occurred to him that it would be we'll to search the car riager in which the couple had ridden and which was standing just outside the office.
 The captain accordingly went out and began to search the interior of the car- riage. Under cushion at one end of a seat he found the diamond stud wrap ped in a piece of yellow paper. The stone was big glistener of the first water. It was later examined by jewell CTS, who placed It's value at about $1, ,000. The finding of the stone is an important feature of the case, as without it there would have been no evidence whatever of the theft beyond Alexis statement. A thorough search of the carriage and of the persons of the couple failed to show up the money alleged to have been stolen.
 Shortly after this couple were arrest ed Alexis and the woman claiming to be his wife went to police headquarters and the former asked Captain Brewer to give him the diamond and drop the case. This of course was request im- possible for the captain to grant. While she was being searched the Leon wo- man endeavored to give from her con- versation the impression that the dia- mond had been stolen in Norwich by AlGhlS. u WdS ucClQe0 IlldI IL NOulu be well to hold Alexis and the Leonard woman, and they were accordingly locked up on the charge of lascivious carriage. Very little information could be obtained from any member of the quartette as to who they were or where they had come from beyond the fact that they came up from New York Sat urday night.
 It was learned in Norwich last night that the police there had no knowledge of any theft of diamond in that city recently. From private parties in Nor wich it was learned, however, that a party of four persons answering the de- scription of the four arrested here had been in that place for about two weeks and had left there within the last two weeks. A couple answering perfectly the description of Alexis and the Leon ard woman stayed at the Wauregan house, the most prominent hotel of the place, and said there that they were man and wife. A couple answering the description of Leon and the woman who says she is his wife also stayed at a private board ing house in Norwich at the same time. Alexis seemed there to be the leader of the party, and all four carried on the
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