The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-04
WANTS Her LIBERTY.
DIAMOND QUEEN ANXIOUS To GET
OUT OF JAIL,
HAS AROUSED SYMPATHY.
EFFORT Is BEING MADE TO HAVE
THE PROSECUTION STOPPED.

Mamie DcCris May Yet BE Told to Go
and Sin no MOre-Whnts to Leave
savannah and Live Down Her
Past, She Says, and Has strong
Hopes for the Future-ROw Be-
tween City Detectives and Pawn
brokers Not the Least Interesting
Phase of the Case-Omcers Recall
How They Worked Day and Night
on Hundreds of Clues Furnished
Immediately After the Robbery.
Fifteen PawnshOps in Savannah
and That Number of Reports for n
Week Had to BE Gone Over-Mayor
Myers and supt. Reilly Do Not Cen
| sure the Detectives.
Seemingly thoroughly penitent, and
at times in tears, Mamie DeCris. the
Diamond Queen" is spending most of
her time pacing the floor OF the little
room she occupies on the top floor of
the county Jail, while those whose sym
patty she has aroused. are endeavoring
to have the prosecution withdrawn and
thus secure her release.
AT times the woman is not so moody,
and when she is in the more cheerful
frame of mind. she occupies her time
in reading magazines. She says that
she is perfectly sane now, and that If
she does secure her freedom she will
leave the city at once. The young wo-
man declares that she has no desire to
remain here where she is disgraced for
| life. and that it is her purpose to leave
| che
| her freedom.
She realizes fully, she says, just
what can be done with her by those
she robbed, but asserts that already
she has suffered punishment enough,
and that unless she is given an oppor-
tunity to leave the city and live down
her past. she has nothing to live for.
1t is not believed that the woman will
ever be tried for the crime for which
she is now held a prisoner. She has
not only aroused public interest. but
sympathy as well. and great pressure
will be brought to bear in an effort to
secure another chance for her.
Fight on PnwnbrOkers.
The fight begun by the detectives
against the pawnbrokers who took in
some of the stolen jewelry has grown
interesting and the pawnshop men are
| talking back. The row began when
Detective Frank Wall made it public
that he had been thrown off the track
in Muhlberg's place while the DeCris
| woman was disposing of some of her
| plumber. Then it was announced at po-
lice headquarters that neither Null
berg or Arthur Deutsch had properly.
reported the articles taken from the
| woman and that docket cases would be
made against them for tomorrow.
Then the knocking" began in earn
| est. Recorder Myrick will be called
upon to say whether the pawnbrokers
| did as they are required by ordinance.
The three city detectives point to
| the fact that they worked night and
day for week after the swindle, and
| that they were constantly employed in
running down clues furnished by the
| victims of the Diamond Queen" and
| the amateur Sleuths who had gone to
| work on their own hook. The force is q
small one and the detectives say that
they had other work to do as we'll.
| Still they faithfully followed every
| likely clue and chased every phantom
| theory. At no time did it occur to
| them that the thief would march bold
| ly into a public loan office and offer
| the jewels in pawn. This was altogeth-
er unlikely, and the three men did not
attempt to stand guard over the fifteen
pawnshops that are open for BUSINESS
in Savannah.
Went Over Pawnshop Reports.
1t was nearly a week before, as
last resort, the officers found time to
| go over the reports of fifteen pawn
brokers' This work meant the exami-
| nation of ninety daily reports, by no
| means simple task. Other matters
| We're coming up, too, from day to day
| and the officers could not devote all of
their time and attention to the diamond
| robbery case. They went over the lists
assiduously, but without finding where
anything had been pawned that would
| give them any hope. The 115 carat
| ring pawned in Deutsch's place on the
| afternoon of the robbery was reported
as y of carat The detectives say
that If they are called upon to look
| for a stolen COW they will not search
for a calf, and that this rule applied in
| the DeutSch case.
The officers say that the pawnbrols-
ers put up hollow" only after it was
announced that they would have to face
the recorder and that they did this in
vain effort to clear their own skirts
Mayor Myers has no criticism to make
on the work of the detective force and
neither has Supt. Reilly. The head of
the police department points to the
fact that it was Detective Wall who
first complained that the department
had been deliberately misled by one of
the pawnbrokers, and it was this
charge, made directly, that brought
about the discussion.
The matter will be fully aired in Po-
lice Court, and the reports of the two
pawnbrokers will be presented to Re-
corder Myrick for his inspection. OF
course the pawnbrokers will lose the
money they advanced on the stolen
property, but this is the risk they take
in the business. The row that is on
between the police and the two pawn
brokers', is by no means the least in
teresting phase of the Diamond
| Queen" case.