El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-17
Ell PASO. TEXAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER II. 1900

IL alleged that he saw the diamond ring
on the bureau in the Clark residence,
aud wstching his opportunity. took it.
and removed the stone. he then evid-
emily dropped the gold ring to the floor
and mashed It with his foot, after which
he kicked It under the bed. This lie a
method pursued by porch clim bers and
other clever crooks. When she ring
Isl missed search reveals the
crushed ring on the floor, and there
is no conclusion to come to except that
the ring hse dropped csrelessly TO the
floor, and that IL had been trampled
upon and the stone swept up without
being noticed. Investigation stops,
and the thief is comparatively
secure.
THE ARREST
At three o'clock Sunday afternoon
Captain Bendy and Officer Harold sss
Nc Broom on Oregon street In front OF
T. J. Whites cigar store and Captain
Bendy went up to him and told him he
would like to speak to him for q NOM
ent. When they got away from the
crowd Bsndy told him ne wanted TO 60
to his room with him. McBro3m said
that he would go in q moment but that
be WAL ted 10 tell his friends where he
" as going.
MIR. Bendy smelled q mouse and re-
fused that request and together the
three men went to his room.
AS they went through Buckler
square Captain Bendy says that he
noticed McBroom trying TO get his
hand up to his shirt bosom and he
noticed diamond shirt stud. The
ever watchful captain kept his eye con.
tinu ally on his man. When they ar
rived at the house the stairs were so
narrow that they could not go up to-
gether, so McBroom went first closely
followed by Captain Bendy.
AS he reached the top OF the stairs
he tore the diamond from his shirt
front, say. Captain Bendy, and threw
it away, srying to throw it out the
window, but Captain Bendy was too
quick for him and he grabbed bis
arms and the diamond hit the wall and
fell TO the floor down stairs.
When the policeman took held OF
McBroom he got little boisterous
over the captain. But the captain
could not see is that way and called
Officer Harold who held the man at
the point of q pistol while Captain
Bendy went TO look for tae stone.
he found 1t on the floor and then
went 10 McBroom's room where the
prisoner was sesrch ed and the rest Of
the stud button was found. He was
very indignsns and so was hts room
N ate, who was In the room at the time,
but whsn n his trunk was searched and
the foe pearl Was found there was
nothing to do but to lock him up and
this as promptly done. In accounting
for the presence Of the two stones Nc
Broom told Captain Bsn6y that he had
purchased the diamond about q month
or five weeks ago and the pearl about
five days ago, but that he bought them
from Mexicans on Et Paso street and
would not know them IL he saw them.
This morning 70 a HERALD man he
aid toat he bought the pearl from a
Mexican on Ell Paso street the first OF
ast week for whion he paid 81. When
Asked about the diamond he said be
bad had 10 for several years.
Tue diamond was identified by Mrs.
CLARK and her husband and also by
Richards the jeweler where It WAS
purchased. 1t is valued at sl25 and is
. beautiful stone The pearl taken
rom Consul Msllen Is large black |
,esrl which has been In his family |
or over three hundred years and is
worth $500 although IL could not be |
,ought from Mr.. Mallen for three |
lines that amount.
McBroom has been In El Paso since |
first and has always been we'll |
bought OF and only two weeks ago
'ss marsh 81 Of The Labor day cele bra
lon. He is a young msn Of good ap-
,earance and looks to be about twenty
hree years old, He is slender built and
; said to have . bad cough that he is
fraid will develop into consumption,
he has retained Charley Patterson
0 defend him and will have his pre-
minary hearing 1t two O'Clock Tues
av afternoOp