The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-05-21
DE PEYSTER JEWELS
Raid on Albany "Growler
Gang" Unearths Great Loot.
PLUMBER NOT FROM LIVINGSTON TOMB
Collections of JeweIry Valued mt
Thousands Found on Migrant.
Fence House stored with Old
Family Treasures.

Family Treasures.
ALBANY, n. Y, May 21.-The sensa-
tional results of raids by the Albany
police upon resort in South Lansing
street, intended to break up 'growler
gang" were believed 70 afford a Sc
quel to the recent mysterious raid up
on the family tomb on the old Living
ston estate below Hudson.
\ collection of iewelry 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 Migrants,
and concealed about the house.
The arrival Of Chief of Police Maloy
of Tiyoli-on- Hudson has exploded the
tomb robbery end of the story, but
lily residence of General Frederic de
Peyster mt Tivoli was looted on Mon.
day night in the absence of the fam
lily, and Chief Maloy conclusively iden-
titled practically al 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, $4,000
worth of jewelry was taken. He fully
identified King who is Il wandering
tanner, and William Johnson of Hud-
son, who Is a 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
in custody and is believed TO he the
third man. Three other men, classed
by the police as "hobocs," were arrest
ed i'm the raid, which was made upon
complaint Of neighhors 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,
headquarters When King was search
ed the amazing collection of jewelry
was found upon him. lie declared that
he found It beside the railroad track
near Reading, Pa. The house was
then searched. and an additional lot Of
the stun 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 intermarried, 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 10Th Sep
TENDER, 1901, in the Is yr. of her age
Granddaughter of Robert Gilbert Llv-
ingston."
There are many empty settings which
once contained precious stones, but
Chief Maloy said most of these had
been removed by the family and reset
in modern settings. Most conspicuous
is a pair of beautiful cameo bracelets
OF heavy linked gold. One is marked
as the portrait of John Watts De Pey-
ster, born March o, 1921" the other as
llluL OA I4NltAlf lfN 1 ~ NA'is AiN' ~
ingston." There is a magnificent hair
pin of mother of pearl, set with small
pearls and diamonds; a necklace of
matchless FlOrentine mosaic strung on
a golden chain of finest workmanship.
This last had been flung into an ash
heap. There We're also bracelets, lock-
cts, rings. earrings, brooches, en-
bossed silver toilet articles, hand mir
rors, carved coral ornaments. several
breastpins containing braided hair, one
of them surrounded by large and valu-
able pearls; a palr of gold filigree ear
rings in the form of punches of grapes,
together with a quantity of jewelry
and other articles of modern make.
In addition to these the police have
found in the local pawnshops number
of valuable articles pawned by men,
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 500 they had
pawned for 80 cents. A diamond
brooch had been sold for 81, and all the
money had been spent for drink.
Chief Maloy said that Miss De Pey-
ster, probably the only member of the
family who could positively identify
the articles, was in Europe.
He said it was now known that no
jewelry was entombed with the beauti-
full 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
nendinp Investigation AT the end of