The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-02
RICH MAN AS ENGINEER.
samuel n Buttervorth Begins work
in Hotel Engine Room.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
Through the arrest of Paul B. Hud-
son, 80 years old. of No. 144 West One
Hundred and Fourth street. charged
with stealing a trunk from the Park
Avenue Hotel, it became known yester-
day that in the engine room of the
Waldorf Astoria there tolls each day q
young man who might, If he chose, dine
in the banquet hall and occupy the fin
est suite of rooms in the hotel. He is
Samuel b. Butterworth, a graduate of
the Stevens Institute of Technology
and member of the well known But
terworth family. He occupies handsome
apartments in the Park Avenue Hotel,
and 1T was for the alleged theft of his
trunk, which contained three hundred
dollars worth of jewelry, that Hudson
was arrested yesterday morning.
Butterworth two weeks ago came to
the Park Avenue Hotel from Washing
ton, where he had been living since his
graduation from the institute last
June. He engaged rooms and casually
remarked to the clerk that he wished
to live near the Waldorf Astoria, where
he had accepted a position as an en-
gineer.
IAN engineer" exclaimed the clerk.
with some surprise, for Butterworth is
man Of small stature, with clean cut
features suggestive of a professional
career, and dresses with unusual care.
THAT Is MY Life work"
Certainly" was the young mans
reply. THAT is my life work and I
intend to begin at the bottom. I'm
not dependent entirely upon my sal
ary."
He was assigned to a suite of the
best rooms in the hotel By some mis-
chance Hudson. who applied for rooms
at the hotel ten days ago. was given
the suite that Butterworth was occupy
ing. Butterworth was then on duty in
the subterranean engine rooms of the
Waldorf Astoria.
In Butterworth's bedchamber was
his trunk. Besides his clothing 1t con-
tanned gold watch and valuable scarf
pins and shirt studs. When the young
engineer returned from work his trunk
had been removed and Hudson was
nowhere to be found.
Captain Titus, of the Detective Blu
reau, placed Detectives Armstrong and
Reidy, of the Central Office, on the
case, but for several days all the ma
chinery of the Police Department failed
TO throw any light on the mystery. 1t
then occurred to Butterworth that the
trunk must have been taken from the
hotel by an employee. and he suggested
to the detectives that all the porters
be questioned.
After conducting an informal inves-
tigation in one OF the hotel ante-rooms
the detectives told Butterworth that
his trunk had been removed in a hotel
cab to the Grand Central Station, being
subsequently taken thence to Hudson S
rooms, at No. la West 104th street.
Hudson's real estate office, at No. L.
512 Broadway, and his apartments
were at once searched by the police,
and in his home the trunk was found
yesterday morning.
Butterworth's watch. a pair of dia-
mond cuff buttons, and a shirt stud,
were missing. His clothing had not
been disturbed. Hudson was charged
with grand larceny and arraigned yes
terday afternoon before Magistrate
Deuel. in the Jefferson Market Police
Court. He pleaded not guilty, hat was
unprepared for examination. and the
case was continued until Friday.
In the basement OF the Waldorf AS
toria. where he was working in an at
mosphere OF manuel labor little in