New-York tribune., 1902-01-01
FIND MANY OF JEWELS.
WOMAN ARRESTED ADMITTED
TO BE MRS. POILLON.
iSHE AND KERN WERE TO LIVE IN
ITZERLAND-DIAMOND PENDANT
AMONG GEMS FOUND AT HOTEL
AND PAWNSHOP.

Captain Titus of the Detective Bureau. an
Sounced Yesterday that he had recovered Jewels
worth $4,000 which stolen on Sunday from
Mr. and Mrs Paul G.. Thebaud. Some of them
were found at a pawnshop. the captain said'
and some were found in a satchel in hotel in
this city. He would not tell the name OF the
rawnbroker or the of the hotel for the
p-osent. He also admitted last night that the
mysterious woman Mary Young" was in reality
Mrs Poillon, the wife Of the waiter who lived
;n East Fourth-st. and who was said TO have
been friendly with Kern Mr.. Thebaud's fugitive
valet.
Captain Titus said that when arrested Mrs
PoiIlon gave her name as Mary Young and her
age as thirty years, but refused her address.
He said she was a native Of Switzerland, and
that she and Kern had met there four years
A bout year ago they had met here and
genewed their former acquaintance
In her statement Monday night to Detective
Sergeant Carey. who arrested her, Mrs. Polon
said she did not know that Kern to commit
the robbery. She denied having had any knowl-
edge Of the crime until after it committe
She said she and Kern had planned TO go to
Switzerland and live there. Saturday and Fri
day nights she had spent at the Hotel Saga
more. Third-ave. and Eighth-st. She and Kern
had stayed Sunday night in the Hotel Rossmore
Kern die not go TO bed. but was in and out of
the hotel all night and exceedingly uneasy.
The woman declares she does not know what
became of Kern after that night He left her
early in the morning, telling her he would re-
turn in two or three days and meet her. and
that theII they would start for Switzerland.
WATCHED THE WOMAN's FRIENDS.
When Captain Titus learned that Kern and
THE Poillon woman were friendly he found out
who the woman's friends These he had
hx
starting for the old country Mrs. Poillon wanted
10 see her friends and tell them goodby. It was
while on this errand Monday night that she
arrested. She had two grips. In them were
some Of Kerns clothing and some Of the The
baud jevelry.
Mr. Tnebauds fugitive valet took of the
gems he had stolen 10 pawnbroker on Sunday
afternoon. Captain Titus said Kern first saw
g man who in the employ of the pawn
hbroker and said he wished TO borrow $500 on
the jewels Immediately. The employe took
Kern 10 the pawnbroker who said he would
,sdvence the named on the Jewels, but he
wanted wait until Monday before paying the
money. Kern saic it matter of life or
death with him. and he could not wait. The
pawnbroker finally paid 800 TO Kern and told
him to come tn the pawnshop Monday for
The remaining $500
On Monday morning the newspapers contained
accounts of the Thebaud diamond robbery and
Kern did not appear at the pawnshop. Captain
Titus said that the pawnbroker not be
held responsible for his Sunday transaction with
Kern, and that the gems recovered at the pawn
shop had been returned TO Mr. Thebaud. The
roawnbroker may be a witness against Kern
later.
THE JEWELS RECOVERED.
The Jewels recovered yesterday. are only part
of those that were stolen by Kern Sunday.
Among them the large pear shaped diamond
pendant valued at SIS 900; the diamond heart,
with a pink diamond in the centre, valued at
s. 600: the marquise diamond ring, valued at
$4,000: the diamond butterfly. valued at $500.
and the diamond swallow valued at 81 900.
Kern. it was supposed, had escaped from the
hotel with the rest of the stolen jewelry, which
Included a pearl pendant worth $4,000 and
Mr.. Thebaud's collection OF scarf pins. valued at
$4,000. Mr. Thebaud's sealskin coat was found
at the pawnshop with some Of the jewels.
Captain Titus said that before Kern could
make any successful negotiations with the
pawnbroker from whom a large part Of the jew
elry was obtained Mrs. Poillon had to go to the
.pawnbroker with him. She signed a statement
in (which she averred that the jewelry belonged
TO her and had been left her by her mother.
theory advanced at Police Headquarters
last night was that the package reported as
sent 10 Kern to the Hotel Walton in PhiladeI-
phia, and go be held until called for" con-
taiIed $500 the rest of the 81 800 which
Kern was TO obtain from pedging the Jewels
Captain Titus reiterated last night that he
would find out who responsible for the
publication Of his plans regarding the capture OF
Kern in Philadelphia ana that he would make
suffer. He declared Kern would have
been under arrest had it not been for the ac-
1ion OF some one in talking too much
Mrs. Po!llon was arraigned at the jefferson
Market court yesterday as suspicious person
and was remauied at the request of two de-
tectves Her at the police court was
given Mary Young. Captain Titus said she
was regarded accessory after the robbery
but not believed to have taken part in the
robbery.
son SAID TO HAVE BLACkMAILED
FATHER
II was reported at Gedney Farm, the country
place of Howard Willets, at White Plains last
night that the reason Edward Kern. sr the
father Of Edward Kern. the missing valet had
persistently refused 10 talk about his how was
that his had blackmailed him into sjlence
Mr. Kern intimated to a reporter that his son
had threatened to expose him IL he said a u,ord
about the sons criminal record When Mr.
Kern asked: lis IL true you wer. Indicted
sn 1887" he replied:
Yes sir. But the police had no rirb. ,o .
my photograph in the Rogues' Gallery r,u 81,
you what the trouble was: Ny son went in +ha
,-~l --.sta business, and got a partner to ,iya
.am 500 sr mis- share to start business with
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