The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-31
UNMARRIED % STOLEN RINGS
Fifty STILL MISSING, SAY THE
ROBBED PAWNBROKERS.

DscPherseu, VINO Smashed the window and
nan. 0ow1ng the Tenderioin With
Jewels. Pleads Guilty--Cops Got in
One Piaee-Missing Ones worth % 900
Angus MCPHERSON. who scattered diamond
r. . through the Tenderloin on Monday
night, was arraigned In the West Side police
court yesterday and pleaded guilty to a
charge Of burglary. Bail was fixed at
$4,000. In court a Central Once detec-
tive reoognized Mcpherson as the head
bell boy Of the Cadillac Hotel.
The scattered rings came from the pawn
shop Of Robert Simpson a Co. at i4S West
Forty-second street. Mcpherson broke q
window In the shop, grabbed tray Of
rings and ran. When in danger OF arrest
he threw most OF the rings away.
twenty-five OF the stolen rings. valued
at IS 900, were recovered yesterday. OF
these employees and private detectives
sent out by the Simpson firm found four
teen and the police dug out the other eight
About fifty rings. worth $1,000, the pawn
brokers say, are still missing.
Very soon after the robbery the Simp-
sons got to work with force Of men, who
went over every inch OF the ground covered
by the robber until he was caught. They
were armed with shovels and rakes and
their mining in the snow was watched by
a big crowd.
The police sent . squad Of patrolmen to
keep an eye on the streets in which rings
might have been dropped and volunteer
searchers wero shooed away. In spite OF
the precautions the police think that some
of the rings may have been found by per-
sons in the streets.
The Simpson employees found a couple
Of rings on Forty-second street not far
from the shop and in Sixth avenue near
Forty-second street. Arthur Plympton,
who was at the head Of the firms search.
ers, found the setting OF ring which had
contained Ave bundred-dollar stone.
The ring had been run over by gon
and the stone was gone.
The Simpson men turned up several
rings on West Fortieth street. between
Seventh and Eighth avenues, and decided
to do little placer mining there. They
shovelled three barrelfuls OF snow, which
they carried to the shop and melted, but
nothing was found, 30 they gave up that
scheme.
r. T. Brennan, a subway workman liv-
ing at ass East Fifth street, found a ring
worth $500 in the middle Of Forty-second
street early in the morning He carried
it to the store and the pawnbrokers say
that they are going to give him a gold
Watcn as reward.
In the meantime the police had been
doing their best to find some of the stolen
property. Detectives and patrolmen from
the West Thirty-seventh and the West
Forty-seventh street police stations guarded
the streets through which the thief ran
They were considerably bothered by small
boys who poked about in the snow. The
cops watched them in order to confscate
anything they might find. and It didn't
take the youngsters long to learn that fact.
One boy STOPPED as II to pick up some
thing and then ran down Seventh avenue.
A policeman followed him, only TO find that
the boy had nothing Then the police
chased the boys away and got snowballed
for their pains.
The police also did some mining on their
own hook and were working on Fortieth
street between Broadway and Seventh
avenue when George Kenny, q grocer.
whose place Ia on FOrtieth street, between
, Seventh and Eighth avenues, told them
that HI saw Mcpherson throw something
Away In front OF his store during the chase.
The police went to work in the place the
grocer pointed out and turned up eight
rings, which were taken to the West Thirty
seventh street station. Policemen McIver
and Ryan found them.
The police think that the rings were
scattered all the the way from the pawn
shop along Forty-second street and down
sixth avenue to Fortieth street and along
that street TO Eighth avenue. The Simpson
firm has offered rewards for the return Of
any rings found