Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-16


put the case down On the pavement
and turned around to assist her com
panion out Of the vehicle When she
looked for the case again 1t was gone.
Selling upon the arrival or departure
Of royalty rs an opportunity for theft
Immediately sprang into fashion among
thieves. The very next month Mt the
sume station MS the Duke Of Edinburgh
was passing through it thieves found
an opportunity to rob an attendant Of
the Russian ambassador, Baron Blu.
low, Of his dressing case, containing
jewels worth some thousands of
pounds.
The fact that the man lie chose rs his
Example was rewarded with ten years
penal scrvltude did not deter Tarpsy,
the jewel thief, FROM resolving to imi-
tate his plan. The first thief ordered
several thousand pounds worth Of lew
elry from London shop, had the pre-
ciok' trklkcts brought to his house,
chlUroformed the mlucky bearer and
disappeared with Ills booty Tarpsy
proceeded on the same lines. With his
wife he TOOK house in the west end
$500 eA'.AAf pAONSSbiHA " JcWcIGT y,
questcd him to send n selection of dia-
monds and cmeralds for his wifo's con-
sldcration. The unfortunate jewelers.
man when ne was shown into the Tarp.
sy drawing room was seized, chloro-
formed, bound and gagged, while Tarp-
sy and his wife dcc:linpcd with their
precious burden. SO far the plan had
succeeded. but Tarpsy commenced to
fall M soon as he began to be original.
He and his wife having stolen away
to bennington, TarpSy excited the sus-
picions of the landlady with whom
they lodged by the peculiar changes ho
effected in his appearance.
30 acute did her suspicious Mt last
become that she communicated with
the police. When they arrived they
were Just too late. The mysterious
lodger had slipped away to the CONT
pent. The detectives, baf1led for the
moment. We're not. however, discour-
aged. Mrs. Tarpsy remained, and they
watched her kccnly.
Some months later she donncd the
deepest mourning. and the information
that she had lost her husband, who Ind
N'St Ott viz t'.ttilltlIt, uTOunQ,
The detectives rightly conjccturcd that
Mrs. Tarpsy was merely taking steps
10 convince nny possible watchers that
their trouble would be In vain and dis
courage them from the task. They
watched her more krcnly than ever
md. following The widow" one day 10
Il house in the north of London, discov-
In Il l.,
husband alive and well.
One swindler begcts another. Watts.
the fraudulent clerk OF the Globe AS
surnncc office, was at once initiated by
Robson and Rcdpnth. Watts was n
young and trusted clerk who devised
M ingenious plan OF classifying his en-
ploycrS books IN manner which emu
Died him to cnbeZzle huge sums. While
he was receiving sulury of only goo
year. he was keeping up IL fine house
III the west end and Ii mansion Mt
brighton, at both of which he enter
tnined lnvislily. Ills wines were of the
best, and he retained one OF the most
famous French cooks to superintend
the preparation OF the bnnqucts at
which he dazzled hosts of enyious
guests. lie was patron" OF actors
ana impecunious literary and artistic
persons. by the time Id frauds were
discovered lie had cnUezzled no less
than 10000. lie was tried, found
guilty and sentenced TO ten years penai
scrvltudc. The same night lie hanged
himself III his cell
ltobson. II clerk In the employ of the
Crystal Palace company. not deferred
by Watts fnte. initiated his frauds and
Ills reckless extravaganza He had laid
hands oil and spcpt f27,OOO when his
career was closed with n sentence OF
twenty years penal scrvitude. Only a
fortnight after Itohson's conviction an
other imitator of Watts was detected
IN Lionel Redpnth. His punishment
was the awful one of lifelong imprIs-
onnient.s 'r W
The theft of the body Of Alexander
Stewi,rt' In New York in 1878 was ini
tateu In 1881 in Scotlpnd by gang of
villains who stole the body of the Earl
Of Crawford FROM its resting place In
the family mausoleum Mt 'Dunecht. The
perpetrators of this ghnstiy deed per
formed 1t In wonderful manner. The
body OF the carl. he having died In TIA
ly, had been enlbnlmcd and placed in
three collins. fhc inner one was Of
Italian wood, the second case was Of
lead 'Gnd the outer one Of oak Thus
secured the body was consigned to the
family mausoleum. the entrance to
which was covered with flngstones.
over which was thick layer OF mold,
set with grass and flowers. The
thieves, breaking through every obsta-
Gle, distracted the body and bore IL of.
For more than year no clew to either
tue missing body or to the perpetrators
Of the crime was discovered. Then IN
old poacher related how he had seen
mon POp, fl,,