Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-21
DE PEYSTER JEWELS
Raid on Albany "Growler Gang" Unearths Great Loot.
THUNDER NOT FROM LIVINGSTON TOMB
Collections of Jewe1ry Valued at Thousands Found on Vagrant. Fence House stored With ola
 Family Treasures. l

ALBANY, N. r., May 21.--The sensa- tional results of raids by the Albany police upon a resort in South Lansing street, intended to break up ''growler gang" were believed to afford a se- quel to the recent mysterious raid up on the family tomb on the old Living ston estate below Hudson.
 A collection of jewelry of intrinsic value running into the thousands of dollars and of priceless value as heir- looms was found upon the person of Thomas King, one of the vagrants, and concealed about the house.
 The arrival of Chief of Police Maloy of Tivoli-on- Hudson has exploded the tomb robbery end of the story, but brought to light the fact that the fam fly residence of General Frederic de Peyster at Tivoli was footed on Mon- day night in the absence of the fam fly, and Chief Maloy conclusively iden- tifed practically all of the booty as belonging to the De Peyster family. From him it was learned that this is the third robbery of the house. Upon the last occasion, he said, $27,0OO worth of jewelry was taken. He fully identified King, who is a wandering tanner, and William Johnson of Hud- son, who is cripple, as two of three men whom he himself saw on Mon- day night near the De Peyster house.
 Charles Murphy, also of Hudson, is ill custody and is believed to be the third man. Three other men, classed by the police as "hoboes," were arrest ed insthe raid, which was made upon complaint of neighbors. If the gang had dispersed as the policemen com manded no arrests would have been made, and the jewelry might never have been recovered. They resisted, however, and were brought to police headquarters When King was search ed the amazing collection of jewelry was found upon him. He declared that he found it beside the railroad track near Reading, Pa. The house was then searched and an additional lot of the stuff was found, including scatter ed fragments in the back yard.
 The loot recovered includes two or three hundred articles, most of them marked with names, monographs or initials of the De Peyster and Living ston families, which integmarried, or with those of ancestors. For instance, there is a ring marked "Anne Watts, July, 1775," and locket marked with the De Peyster monogram and the following inscription: Helen Living ston, Wife of Frederic De Peyster, Esq, Died on the Night of Both Sep tember, 1901, in the 28 VT. of her age- Granddaughter of Robert Gilbert Liv- ingston."
 In addition to these the police have found in the local pawnshops number of valuable articles pawned by mem- bers of the gang. The police say that King and his companions are of the clumsiest sort of tramp thieves. Some of the articles of bullion value alone as high as $75 and $1OO they had pawned for 50 cents. A diamond brooch had been sold for $2 and all the money had been spent for drink.
 He said it was now known that no jewe1ry was entombed with the beautiS fu1 Lady Mary Livingston. Members of the family and neighbors who were present at her funeral had long ago disposed of the jewelry legend with the we'll authenticated statement that the only thing with her in the casket was cluster of roses.
 King and the rest of the gang have been sent to the penitentiary on charges of vagrancy for thirty days pending investigation.