The sun., 1904-08-11
MRS. GOBLET SUSPECTED NONE
ADVISED TO LOOK IN HER SAFE,
SHE TOOK HER TIME.

SIrCuIor DehCTIUlUk StWeib an .N'ss'ue
Sent Out Against the Advice OF the
Pinkertons. but She Was Sure the
Jewels Ought TO BE in Their Case.
The Pinkerton officials in this city seemed
to feel aggrieved yesterday because their
statement as to the manner in which Mrs.
Ogden Goelet recovered her long lost
Jewels was not accepted in all quarters
at it's face value.
There never was any mystery in the
matter--at least as far as we were con-
cerned" said Allan Pinkerton. 1T was
simply case OF displacement. You might
misplace your pocket knife just as Mrs.
Goelet misplaced her jewels. We did no
work to speak OF, simply because there was
nothing to be done until Mrs. Goelet had
completed going over the ground she had
covered since she last saw the jewels. This
Of course included the opening OF the safe
in her house here in New York. We simply
sat down and waited for this to be done.
feeling pretty certain from the circum-
stances as related to us that there had
been no robbery and that the jewels would
be found where their owner had left them.
-At no time was anybody unoer sus-
picion OF having taken the gems, ana even
the servants we're not questioned. Many
OF them have been with Mrs. Goelet. for
wears and she would not hear Of anything
being done that might lead them to be-.
heve they were suspected, even remotely, OF
jewelry. She said that Il the jewels were
lost she must have lost them herself
-If We had had our way the circular de-
scribing the missing properly would never
have been sent out. But Mrs. Goelet was
very sure that she had taken the jewelry
-iAL
sugpested the search OF her safe here, and
she was urged by several others, includ-
ing her brother. Mr.. Wilson. to 60 to New
York and open the safe. She was the
only one who had the combination.
th,: Hs step have en- nothing TO say, a. / know
nothing about Mrs. Goelets social engage.
ments or how che had planned to spend
her time. After our first suggestion we
did not mention the matter TO Mrs. Goe'et
or her representatives again, knowing that
she would open the safe when she saw f't
to do so.
There was not the slightest excuse for
any one to drag In the name OF man who
had been a guest at Mrs. Goelets Newport
house As told you, we never suspected
the man referred to, never heard his name
ment % issued yesterday. That covers the
whole matter. There never was anything
puZzling or complicated about IL. MIS-
Goelet found her jewels just where she
left them, and With that our interest In the
matter ceased. She took her own time
about coming to New York, and as she was
the only person interested, | don't see why
any one else should get excited about II
George q. De Witt, attorney for Mrs
| Coelet, corroborated the Pinkerton version
OF the finding of the jewels. which. he said
had never been out of his clients posses
sion. II had been her custom. he said, To
put the pearls, diamonds and rubies in the
case which she took with her TO Newport
hut after she returned to New York from
her sons wedding she inadvertently put
them In the safe in another package. St
sure was she that she had put them in thu
case that she could not be induced at frs
| to come to New York and open the safe
She said she had always put the .jewel'
| In that case and that they should have
! been there when she opened it at Newpor
| on July 10.
Asked II any one had at any time beer
suspected of stealing the jewels, Mr.. De Wit
Not at all. Mrs. Goelet suspected nj
one"
Chief OF Police Richards left Newpor
on the Wexford boat this afternoon, ant
| Il ia supposed that he is bound for Nev
/ York to confer with Mrs. Goelet and tn
| PinkertonS.