The sun., 1902-01-12
TACTICS OF JEWEL THIEVES.
Btrrs MADE By SERVANTS
AND SKILLED WORKMEN.
Nh st Robberies Committed Now From the
Insidc--Three Thcfts by the Peerless
Clarisse-A fearful English THIEF
-Compi aints Against Decorator.

-Compl atnts Against Decorator.
.Nearlv all of these big jewel rotberies
noradays are inside jobs-that Is, they're
framed I'D and put through by lags OF
,acord. who wax the lay OF the establish
p,onts while employed as high-class ser
wants or as skilled workmen during the
nrogress of repairs or refurDlshing.' said
an old time headquarters man, an ex-
meunber OF Byrnes's stah Fewer OF these
inside Jobs have been turned OF in New
York of late years than in some OF the other
hg cities Of the country, notably Chicago
and San Francisco, for the reason that
she mistre. .es OF big New York establish
nents learned the lesson Of investigating
servants references some time ago.
As matter Of fact, there are plenty OF
Jewel robberies happening in rich houses
IN New York right along that never get
into the papers owing 70 the disinclina-
tion Of the victims 10 stand for the noto-
riety involved Few of these Of course.
are on such big scale as that recent Job
that started me OF on this hne OF talk. but
some OF them are pretty sizable.
A French girl wso came to this country
IN 1889 with highly. .commendatory and
perfectly genrlne letter of recommends
ton took her pick OF the stuff In the jewel
boxes Of t,,ree wealthy New York families
inside Of two years and got away without
ever sAeing the tint OF the rust on New
York cell grating. The girl had been en-
ploy u as maid for four years by French
wo' aar, and had al ways been on the level.
But while she was still in that employ
yhe met up with French crook, went daft
on him and married him. 1t didn't take
bar crOoL bushand long tn Syen0ali her
and, although he couldn't get her TO pinch
the jewelry Of her French mistress, she
announced her readiness to join him on
other jots OF the kind.
She withdrew from the service Of her
gr>nch mistress on the plea OF domestic
duties. and got her fine letter Of reference.
Then she and her husband drilled for the
States where he, having operated similarly
here before with another woman, knew
where the picking were to be had.
Tho girl caught on right away as maid
Cor a rich Marlison avenue widow. and in
sdo of a couple Of months the widow and
h"r oaly daughter thought that Clarisse
~. about the only back-eyed Young
.rnman that had ever crossed the seas
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.u naPtenvu'
One evening the WIDOW ana her oauen'er
lf'uIncAi lIOtii a ''o VI TOhht''Ait hNN N''''
AMI found that they were about 5000 to
the wrong In the matter of iewelry. When
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u''y .o'u 'a,i. 49,. " so p,NP,y
and skluully TAINTED ana "neh she came
20 she was hvsterical Tor had not she been
in madame's apartments nearly all the
.r,o-r.o,, ,,,,h ,ha .xcaption of perbans
80 - A., I-,,,ta,
We han -hour sne h0d eps'' III ''e N''>"'
With the cook'
har
Sorted Clarisse and let her use their smelling
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ps anu sa'o " ee'e :,
1hey didn suspect ''arisse' nor ureaih vi
such thing.
They came TO Headquarters, however,
strictly stimulating that the report OF the
.ohh.r,, shI,,idr,, ha ,oad. rrhlic a,d ,hsv
eao1H VI ,us Wv ~ - -
iurther TIED the hahos OF the TWO mean
quarters men who we're assigned to the case
by absolutely declining TO permit them
oven 70 oues,ion anv OF the seryants. That
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aoou' as soo' az ,
teiephone repalrer VINO happeheu 70
visit the house TO FIX the phone on the
afternoon OF the robbery was put under
de s,,n hut ba didn't have any trouble
In so,iar}ng himself The detectives hadn't
~ tha wind,,n of their inyestiration even
seen any OF the house servants except the
doornan They had their lima of thinks
on that suhiect when thew were compelled
10 tmrn In ihei, renort n nothing doing
but The widow who was the loser had a will
OF her own and she STAYED with her foolish
Jatas',' - -. sar,,an,s
deispce % oi her oS,h "rsVsnts iar c,.r... 4, ,r.,,
s,iaf showed her mistress a letter from
.i,as a. rranco hagsins ber 20 ,c,ur,
90 paris 10 yisi, the bedslde of their M ther.
xho the LATTE, stated Wa diving Of cancer
he T,1aw was vas 30 s1rry 'cp nS lsS1 ~ nn,bs " bs
.,sa -. and Az ,,,, fotr hey her fsra