New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-27
BONDS STOLEN at WALDORF.
THE ovERcoAT OF ]. D. UNDERHILL,
WITH CONTENTS VALUED AT $1,000,
TAKEN FROM BILLIARD ROOM.

valuable overcoat in the pockets of which were
two bonds valued at $1,000 each. stolen from
the billiard of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last
night The coat and bonds were the property OF
John D. UnderhI, the wealthy real estate dealer
and broker for Charles NJ Schwab. whose offices
are at Thirty-eighth-st and Fifth-ave., and who
lives at the Hotel Navarro. Thirty-eighth-st and
Seventh-ave The bonds were issued by the Port
land (Ore) Water Company are interest bearing
at the OF per cent and considered to be gilt
edged" security They were intended as Thanks
giving presents to Mr.. Underhius two children.
and he was give them TO them to-day.
Mr.. Cnderhil and friend strolled into the bill
lard room OF the Wadorf-Astoria soon after
o'clock last night. A number OF men were playing
billiards. pool and ping pong, and they sat down
TO watch the play. Mr. Underhill took of his
overcoat, and threw it one of the chairs. He
and his friend ordered several drinks according to
his story and about 10 O'Clock his friend proposed
that they take a walk. When Mr.. UnderhIl looked
for his coat II had disappeared. Detective Smith.
the hotel sleuth, summoned, and he made a
OF the corridors TO II he could find any
suspicious chara cters. He searched in vain, and
then Mr. Upderhill and his friend jumped into a
cab and driven 10 the West Thirtieth-st- sta
ton. There Mr. Underhn reported the loss per
sonally Captain Walsh who assigned Detectives
Walsh and Delaney the case and had a general
alarm
At the station house. Mr.. UnderhiH said that the
overcoat odd one. and that there was
probably another like it in existence 1t was
ish mixture. with occasional dash OF white.
Suiting is made of the material. but Mr..
UnderhiIl said that it extremely odd for an
overcoat and should lead TO its speedy recovery.
I will pay $3.50 reward for the return Of the
bonds" said Mr. Underhl in the station house.
They were intended for my children, one TO each.
and had counted on giving them as presents to-
morrow. Thanksgiving Day. I will not disappoint
them, however and will present them with $1,000
each in ash. and then exchange IL when the bonds
recovered. The loss of the coat is most nlyS-
FERROUS. When I entered the billiard room noted
that every there looked prosperous, and seemed
10 be familiar with the place. The only explana-
ton I give is that IL was taken by sneak
thief, dressed for the occasion He must have
been a slick one. for not away from the
overcoat more than ten feet any OF the time was
in the billiard room.
UP to a late hour last night trace had been
found of the overcoat the bonds.
When Mr.. Underhll left the Hotel Navarro early
in the evening he left two grips in the baggage
room of the hotel intending TO take early
morning train of town. When he returned to
the hotel after reporting the robbery the police
station he for the check for the grips Then
he remembered that the check had been left in the
pocket of the overCost- Alarmed at the discovery.
he rushed over 10 the checkroom and asked the
boy about the grips. The latter informed him that
two well dressed had called for the grips and
taken them away Mr.. Cnderhn says that he had
clothes in them worth $500.
Detectives learned that two well dressed men at
tempted dispose Of overcoat similar TO the
one stolen from Mr.. Underhill, in several Seventh
ave. pawushops. They wanted $50 for the coat