New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-03
NINE. SAVILLE'S EW ELS GONE
WAITER MISSING. TOO. AND rs sos.
PECTED OF BEING THE THIEF.

THE STOLEN PROPERTY TAKEN WHILE rHD
PRrMA DONNA WAS SINGING ELSA ON SAT-
rRDAY AFTERNOON VALUED AT OVER
sicooo-DETEcTrvEs HAVE cLEw.
Captain McClusky Of the Detective Bureau ~.
torday officially announced that diamond jewelry
valued at between $1,000 and $4,000 had been stolen
from the apartments az Nine. Frances Savie. IN
the Madison Avenue Hotel. on Saturday night last.
and that Emil Becker. a walter In the hotel. was
suspected OF being concerned In the robbery Becker
IL missing from his home. at No. 1t5 East Forty
cighh-st.. and the police have no clew TO his
whereabouts
Nine saviile. who is singing the principal roles
at the Metropolitan Ciera House. occupied a suite
OF apartments consisting OF parlor. bedroom and
dining groom. at the corner OF the second moor OF
the hotel. Immediately over the Office. With her
were her maid. courier md CHI nbermaid Becker
was especially detailed waiter on Nine. Saviile
by Horace N. Clark. the proprietor Of the hotel.
Nine save on Saturday sang the part Of Elsa
at the "Lohengrin matinee. She left the hotel ct
100 o'clock. accompanied ny her maid and courier.
and went to the opera-horse She returned at 10
o'clock. and upon opening n drawer OF bureau In
her bedroom noticed that pocketbook was miss
Ing After reporting her loss at the Office. Nine.
Savle changed her dress and went to Dclmoncos
to dine with frenos. In her absence the maid
made the alarming dis, very that Nine. Savilles
Jewel-box was missing and hastily summoned the
hotel proprietor 1t then found that the Jewell
box had been forced open. apparently with a table
knife and the contents distracted.
4 message sent 10 the Detective Bureau ana
Central Office Detectives Gun ard Schneider
promptly sent to Investigate. Suspicion fell upon
Becker who had the entree 70 the apartments.
While the detectives investigating. Nine. Sa-
VILE returned to the hotel and gave the detectives
a list Of the stolen vauables Becker could not be
found his home when the detectives called there.
His wife also absent. Mrs. Trimble. the land
lady told the detectives that Becker and mis- wife
had been living with her two months At TO
o'clock on Saturday afternoon. however. Becker
drove up 10 the house In hanson cab. He re-
mained in his apartments ior ten minutes. and then
placed n small leather trunk in the cab and was
driven away He returned an hour later went up
his and In n few minutes eft the house.
accompanied by his wife. Two trunks went with
them
The police have already made some progress tn
tracing the whereabouts OF Becker. Soon after
o'clock last evening Detective Sergeant Schneider.
OF the Detective Bureau drove in a cab to the
door OF Police Headquarters with two trunks on the
seat with the driver The trunks were taken a.
unobtrus vey possible INTO the DEF, ctiva Bureau
All Information concerning them or their contents
refused by the authorities. but II was learned
later that they were the missing trunks which
Becker took away with him on Saturday afternoon
from his house. Where they were FOUND could NOT
be ascertained. but It g surmised that they were
recovered from the office OF some express company.
where they had been left preparatory TO being
shipped away.
The contents OF the trunks were gone over care
fully by the detectives. but they naturally declined
to tell what they found II Is generally believed.
however that the trunks contained nothing but the
personal effects Of Becker and his wife The capture
Of the trunks Is considered important. as leading to
the discovery Of the whereabouts Of the missing
Becker and Il is expected that he will he arrested
within a short time
The stolen property comprises diamond neck.
lace. having a pendant Of two pcar-shaped pearls.
one black and white diamond chain. con-
tanning 1852 stones. 70 encirce the neck twice: an
emerald brooch. surrounded by diamonds brooch,
turquoise. surrounded by diamonds: brooch. opal.
surrounded by diamonds; two small pearl brooches:
a bar PIN containing large ruby and sapphire. set
with diamonds: bar brooch. containing two large
diamonds: a diamond star pendant brooch; horse
shoe pin brooch. containing an emerald and two
diamonds: a brooch. composed OF six American
gold dollars; a gold fan chain; emerald brace
let with two large diamonds. bracelet chain with
a sapphire and two large diamonds; a heavy gold
curb chain: a bracelet Of fve-dollar gold pieces.
with monograms; plain gold chain; with the date
a large ruby ring. set with two large diamonds; an
emerald ring. set with two diamonds, raised ern-
erald ring. set with diamonds, a large. hat ruby
ring. containing ten diamonds: ring containing
large single pearl. diamond and sapphire ring;
an odfashiored marquse ring OF blue enamel set
in diamonds: ring set with large pink diamond,
surrounded by II stones: black sgnet ring. set
In diamonds: three studs, in pearls and diamonds:
n bijou watch. with a large diamond. made ~
Breguet Paris. and numbered 2.4ss. and purse
s ssnt or s '0res" money Oh '"e 'aue OIL