The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-03-12
HRS. HOYT'S STOLEN
JEWELS RECOVERED
Necklace Worth Thousands
PaWned for One Dollar.
Taken by a Cleaner Who Didn't Know
Their Value, But Sold the Pearls
to JeweIer.

NEW YORK. March I2-Mrs. Colgate
Hoyt, Of 25 Park Avenue. last night re-
covered a diamond and emerald ring val
ued at $2.5G0 and a pearl necklace, also
valued al $500, which we're lost BY her
under peculiar circumstances. Patrick
Mcmahon and Samuel Stern are locked Up
at police headquarters, one charged with
stealing the jewels. the other with pur-
chasing stolen property.
Left in Automobile.
Mrs. Hoyt on March 1 attended a musi-
Gale at the Waldorf Astoria. wearing the
ring and the necklace. Before her return
home she discovered that several Of the
stones we're loose IN their settings. and
when she entered her automobile she
placed the ring and necklace in the peck
et Of the lining OF the vehicle. Arriving
rome, she forgot the jewelry, and her
mind did not again revert to il for sew
eFal hours The automobile is stored in
the barns Of the Electric Vehicle Com
pany, at Forty-ninth street and Eighth
Avenue 4 servant was sent there. only
20 md that some one had taken both the
ing and the necklace. and no record had
been LEFT at the Office of the company.
Betrayed by His Folk.
At first Mrs Hoyt was inclined to be-
lieve her jeweIry would be returned to
her, and she left the matter 10 the Off
Gals Of the Electric Vehicle Company.
who were doing everything in their DOW
er to discover the thief. Finally the mat
ter was reported 10 Captain Titus. who
detailed Detective Sergeants Kinsler and
Huggan on The case They questioned ali
OF the employees at the barn and after
much work, learned that Patrick Mona
non, q cleaner, had been heard 20 remark
that be had sold a lot Of pearls for a
dollar.
Mcmahon was arrested. and in his
pocket was found the ring He at first
said he had found the ring. and denied
knowledge Of the necklace. cut when con-
fronted by those 20 whom he had made
the statement that he had sold il. he ad-
mltted that he had taken the fewelry
from the automobile To the detectives
ne then said he had sold the necklace to
Jeweler named Samuel Stern. at 53s
Eighth Avenue II was true. he said. that
stern had paid him only a dollar. Nc
Mahon added that Stern had threatened
TO expose him IL he did not take the
amount offered
Buyer Stems Story.
When the detectives visited Stern no
admitted that he had the necklace and
told them just how it had come into his
possession He denied. however. the story
told by Mcmahon that he had compelled
the sale Of the necklace for a sum so
small Stern insisted the Jewels had been
offered 10 him for a dollar. and. as he
saw they would be a bargain at many
hundred times that amount. he purchased
them without making any enquiry into
the manner by which they had fallen into
the hands OF Mcmahon.
stern was closely questioned, but ne
refused to change his story be admitted
that he knew the true value Of his Dur
chase. but still insisted that he had no
suspicion that he was purchasing stolen
property
JeweIer More to Blame.
Kinsler and Duggan refused 20 accept
the story told BY Stern as the truth. and
held him under arrest until they uquld
communicate with Captain Titus. They
were instructed to take Stern to head
quarters and have a warrant served on
him charging him with purchasing stolen
property The detectives are inclined TO
place much more responsibility upon the
jeWeler than upon the man who sold the
necklace to him.
Mcmahon appears 10 be an ignorant
laborer. who has no idea Of the value OF
the articles taken by him. He really
thought the necklace was worth little
moro than he sold IL for and he had at
tempted TO sell the ring for s.. The man
10 whom he had offered il was almost as
ignorant as himself and thinking that
il was an ordinary glass and brass affair
refused 10 take H..