New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-21
BIG DE PEYSTER ROBBERY
TRANPS GET $4,000.
JczceIry and HeirLooms Taken from
TiCoE HouSe-Macb RecoUered.
IBv TELEGRAPH 20 TIE TRIBUNE

ny TELEGRAPH 20 TIZ TGIBUNE.l
Albany. May 20.-Jewel-y 10 the value OF sew
sraf thousand cellars. stolen IN all probability
.-ora tle De Peyster homestead. a Tiyo.l-on-
uydson. hes been recovered by the Albany
Ito from a gang Of tramps now under arrest.
-r,a articles bore in many instances the mono
o-.-,s Of the Livingston and De Peyster families.
= there is an impression that the men who
-obbed the De Peyster house are the persons
10 recently desecrated the tomb Of the Living
cons on the ole Livingston estate in Columbia
County.
rbere was belief that some Of the jewelry
-s-overed was possibly taken from the coffin Of
81 adv Mary" Livingston, the tradition being
80 when she was buried by the side OF Cen
.-,l Livingston in the tomb some fifty years
.-o some valuable jewelry was buried with her.
The notice do not believe that any Of the ieWelry
seized was ever IN the Livingston tomb for
80 reasons-first. because OF the good condition
~ which It is. and secondly, because those IN 4
noeition TO know say that tie only thing buried
,.,tn her was q burch of roses. Another theory
e hat the men who desecrated The tomb, being
s,s,nnointed IN fnding no treasure, planned the
-obbery al The De Peyster house. The burglary
rs committed on Monday night.
= was The arrival Of Chief OF Police Maloy,
~ 7-fvol.-on- Hudson. tonight. which exploded
.5a rorab robbery end Of The story, bat brought
- light the fact that the De Peyster home. a.
r-voH. was looted on Monday night. in the all
ssnce of the family. chief Maloy conciUsi-.'y
,sonr,aed practically all Of the booty as be-
longing 10 the he Peyster family. From him it
Was learned that this IS the third robb-ry Of
ne borse. On the last occasion, he said. $1,000
v-orth Of ieyeIry as taken. He fulty lcentlne1
Thomas king who is a wandering tanner ana
william Johnson. Il Hudson. who is A cripple.
as Two o. three men whom he himself saw or
,Fonlav night near The De Peysrer house. Charles
N,rpbv. slso OF Hudson. IS in custody. and is
believed 70 he the third man Three other men.
ciasse6 by the police as -'hoboes.' were arrested
in the raid. which was made on complain Oh
neighbors.
OVER 200 ARTICLES RECON Erred
The loot recovered includes between two hun
dred and three hundred articles, most OF which
are marked with names, monographs or Initials OF
the De Peyster ana Livingston families. which
in:ernar-ied. or with those Of ancestors For
instance there Is a ring marked Anne Watts
Julv lTT5" and a Iocket marked with the De
Pevgter monogram. and the following inscrip-
ton: Helen Livingston. Wife of Frederic De
Peyster, Esq. Died or the Night OF 10Th Sep
TENDER. 1901 in the IS VI. Cf her age-Grand-
daughter Of Robert Gilbert Livingston There
are many empty settings which evidently once
contained precious stones. but thlef Ma-oy sald
most Of these had been removed ny the falflly
and reset in modern settings Most conSpicu-
Gus IS a pair Of cameo bracelets. Of heavy linked
gold one is marked as he portrait OF John
Watts De Peys;er. Born March ., ISL. the
other as that Of 'EsJelle De Peyster, nee Living
stOn"
In addition 10 these. the police have found IN
the Local pawnshops a number Of valuable ar
ricles pawned " members OF the gang. The
police say that King and his companions are OF
the clJmsiest sort Of tramp thieves Some OF
the articles, Of bullion value alone as high as
SO and 500. they had pawned for % cents A
diamond brooch had been sold Tor 81, and all the
money had been spent for drink Chief Maloy
said shat Miss De Peyster probably the only
member Of the family who could positively
tdeutify the articles was in Europe
He said Il was now known that no Jewelry
was enuOmbed with Lady Mary Livingston.
Members Of the family and neighbors who were
the jewelry legend, with the we'll authenticated
statement that the only thing with the body IL
the coffin was cluster OF roses
King and the rest Of the gang have been sent
70 the penitenJiaTy- or charges Of y2EranCy for
thirty days. pending investigation At the end
Of that tizne they VIII doubtless be charged with
burglary in the third degree che most serious
charge for robbirE an UDOcclp-eG house,. the
maximum penalty 1or which is imprisonment Tor
six years.
there had found n a dive a q,!anuf. o. le"elTy
marked with the DE pevEter and livingston mono
grams. Frederick j. De P7ysJer. 10. q Eifll--
ave last evening told q Tribune reporter that N
belonged the widow 81 Colonel Johnston LiV-
ilgstOE &c Peyster. Whose EOuse al TfvCN. y. y.
was robbed on Monday night. Tie house -as not
many % the pieces Of lewclr- stolen were heir
looms which had been ID the possession ~ the Tee
FeyEter family for seneratiCns- They were cot &C
great financial value. but as souvenirs were highly
priced.