The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-21
TOOK HER JEWELS.
Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong
Disappears.
So Do May Y0he's Diamonds to
Value Of 100000.
THREAT OF SUICIDE.
Could No Longer Prevent Elk
posure of the Situation.
A Hint That There is Another
Woman in the Case.


Bradlee Strong has disappeared so mas
800 600 worth of diamonds belonging TO
May Yohe, who burst upon the world
in Chicago as remarkable singer, cap
tured Lord Francis Hope for a husband
and set the world gossiping by clipping
with Captain Strong around the world
The captain did not go through the
formality of saying farewell to Miss
Yohe at their home in HastingS-on-the-
Hudson, but he has written her letter
confessing his breach of trust and
threatening to kill himself.
He confessed also to his mother, VINO
is the widow Of Mayor William L.
Strong He asked her to reimburse Miss
Yohe and limited at suicide
Mr.. Strong has been seen only once
since Tuesday morning, when he left
the cottage in he-Hudson,
where for the last few months he had
been living with the former wife of Lord
Francis Hope. 1t developed today tnat
since their return to New York several
months ago he had been mysteriously
taking jewelry, which was the property
of the woman, from the vaults of the
United States Safe Deposit company
and securing money for them at various
pawnshops. Nearly 500, 900 worth or
gems, 1t is estimated, all of which, it IS
asserted, were the absolute property of
May Yohe, have been pawned-
Miss Yohe received on wednesday
last a note from Strong, in which ne
said that he was going away to kill
himself, and that he had hypothecateo
all her belongings and could not remain
to face the music" This is the version
of the correspondence as gwen py
Emanuel NJ Friend, counsel for the
INDORsEs PAWN TICKET.
Inquiries made on the following day
developed that the captain mad also
written to his mother and inclosed
pawn ticket, showing that the sum of
$4,000 had been realized by the pledg-
ing of articles of jewelry said to be
worth $4,000
Strong was seen at 2 o'clock wednes-
day morning in an uptown restaurant
in Broadway. He was accompanied by
two handsomely gowned women, and
far from being bent on self-destruction.
seemed to be in jovial mood.
Mr.. Friend said that he was under the
impression that all the adornment of
Miss Yohe gathered from her admirers,
after many years on the stage, would
be worth at least $3.50, 900. 1t was found
that in the books of the safety deposit
company the box in which the jewels
had been kept, was registered in the
name of Strong. This was surprise
to Miss Yohe Mr.. Friend caused the
receptacle to be opened, and found that
some of the jewelry-in fact more than
half of it-still remained.
The last article pawned was for the
sum of $500, and the ticket bore the date
of the day of Strong's disappearance.
The article is said to have been dia-
mond bird.
This discovery overwhelmed Miss
Yohe. who had supposed tina Strong was
reaping dividends in Wall street or was
using a part of his patrimony. She did
not know that he was not even support
ing the establishment at Hastings.
All was peace and happiness in the
household last Tuesday morning when
Strong left Hastings and started for
this city. The two had spent the pre-
ceding day in New York and Miss Yohe
was unsuspecting. 1t had been planned
that they marry on September 26. This
day would have been six months after
the granting of the divorce in the Eng
lish court and at which time it would
have become operative. They had also
planned trip to Japan and had begun
packing their trunks.
ADMITS TAKING GEMS
Strong came directly to this city, and
in the afternoon messenger took to
Miss Yohe a message from him which
gave the information that he had been
pawning the gems which We're hers for
several months and that that morning he
had taken with him a diamond neck
lace which he had removed from her
boudoir. On this, he explained, he had
secured $780, He wrote that he had re-
solved to kill himself.
Miss Yohe, in great trepidation. hur-
ried to Mr.. Friends Office, and search
for the young man was at once begun.
1t developed then that Strong had sent
a message to his mother, the widow of
the former mayor, in which he convey
ed much the same intelligence that he
had given Miss Yohe-
Mrs. Strong was in Lenox at the time
with her daughter and the latter's hus-
band, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert T. Shattuck-
Mr. Shattuck is president of the Auto
mobile Club of America The news came
as a great shock to the relatives in
L.enox, although Strong's relations with
them have not been at all friendly or
familiar since his ENHANCEMENT with
Miss Yohe.
His mother at once enlisted the SER
<.f .7nfa hr7ra xrh "a
since been vainly hunting for the man.
Strongs announcement that he intend
ed to take his life is not taken seriously
in many quarters, inasmuch as ne had
pearance that he was plentifully sup
piled with money.
Mr.. Friend is in control, it is said, al
though not corroborated by him,of pawn
tickets showing that Strong secured
sic. 900 in cash on this collateral which
Miss Yohe says was hers. He said to-
day:
'.At present I cannot furnish a COM
plete list of the missing jewels. Among
them, however, are a diamond and
emerald brooch worth $1,000, diamond
belt and several rings and pins of great
value / have located some of the jewels
how it was that the safety deposit box
was registered in the name of Strong
He had access to it, but 1 did not know
that he had any authority to have the
box registered in his own name"
HINT OF A RIVAL
The news was broken to Miss Yohe
today that Strong had been paying de-
voted attention to a young won an who
lived in West Forty-fourth street and
that some think it not improbable that
she is now in his company
All the relatives of Strong are said to
have been much alarmed. and a well
known detective agency was employed
to find him. No trace of him has been
found Miss Yohe said he had fire.
H. .E Mil
pines and enlisting as a private. as the
life of a military man was one for
which he had always yearned- Miss
Yohe said today that she thought the
captain would return to her.
Fer the last year Strong and his fam
Ivy have been estransed- He received q