The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18
$500 AND DIAMONDS
STOLEN BY SERVANTS OF VEAL
THY JACKSONVILLE FAMILY.
MONEY AND JEWELS GONE.
ONE OF THE THIEVES CAPTURED
ON STEAMER NACOOCHEE.

Jacksonville Detective Followed
Him to savannah and Had County
Officers Make the Arrest-Henry
White, CoIOred, and His Wife Al
legged to Have Committed the Rob-
bery-White Found on the NacOO-
chez, But His Wife Was Not With
Him-OnIy Had ~ Cents when
Searched and Officers Think WO-
man Has the Plumber.
For completely in the theft Of $500
end diamond brooch valued at 800,
Henry White, a negro, was arrested on
the steamship Nacoochee by Deputy
Sheriffs Hartigan and McCaffery yes
terday, sometime before the ship sail
ed for New York.
The money was stolen from the res
adence of F. K. Cam in Jacksonville
on Friday, and a warrant was sworn
out before Justice E. E. willard,
charging White and his wife, Essie,
with grand larceny. Both were en-
ployed in the Cam household and the
robbery was discovered Immediately
after their disappearance. The Jack
of the theft, but all trace of the wo-
man was lost. 1t was ascertained that
White had purchased ticket to Sa-
vannah and had engaged passage to
New York on the Nacoochee.
Detective Jesse Tyre followed White
TO Savannah on the first train and
reached here yesterday morning. He
got in communication with the sher-
IFS Office at once, and secured the SER
vices of Deputies Hartgan and Nc
Caffery. The Jacksonville detective
was armed with a warrant charging
the man and woman with the larceny
of $500 in cash and the diamond brooch,
and this was turned over to the county
officers The officers went Immediate
1y to the wharves of the Ocean Steam
ship Company and found White already
on board the steamship.
The woman could not be found and
he denied all knowledge of her where
abouts. The prisoner was sent to the
county Jail for safe keeping, but when
searched only u cents was found on
his person. He denied all knowledge
of the crime, but gave no reason for
leaving Jacksonville so suddenly. The
officers are firmly convinced that
Wnlte KNOWS where the woman is ana
that she had the plumber. He made no
effort to cover his tracks and proba-
bly, permitted the officers to learn his
destination for the purpose of throw
ing them off the track of his wife.
White is a shrewd negro and the Of
f1cers say may have expressed the
money and brooch to some point in the
North. although they are of the opin-
ion that it is in the possession of his
wife. They do not think that she came
to Savannah with him, although at
first they were inclined to that theory.
The detectives are now of the opinion
that the woman went North by rail
with the money and 1ewelry and that
the plan was for her husband to meet
her in some place where the spoils
could be divided with perfect safety.
Detective Tyre said that he will
make every effort to locate the wo-
man, although he has no hope of Sc
curing a confession from White, who
himself knows a Thing or two. Ac-
cording to the detective White was
employed as a hostler at the Cam res
idence and his wife held the position
of first cook. They had been in the
household for eight years and were
trusted implicitly. White claims that
he was employed as a porter in CAMS
music store and that he was not at
the family residence.