Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-24
EDEY DIAMONDS
ARE RECOVERED
FOUND BURIED IN GROUNDS OF
HOTEL RAYMOND
THREE BELL BOYS ARRESTED
Chief Freeman and Capt. Austin Of
Pasadena Police Department Con-
Hdent They Have Perpetrat-
ors Of Big Robbery

Buried at the roots of a pepper tree
In the grounds of the Raymond hotel,
the $4,000 worth of diamonds stolen
Friday from the room of Mrs. William
s. Edey at the Hotel Maryland were
uncovered at o'clock yesterday after
noon by Chief of Police w. w. Free
man and Captain w. c. Austin of the
Pasadena police department.
At 12 o'clock last night CASTOR, the
head bellboy at the Maryland hotel;
Carl Wilson, a bellboy at the same ho-
Raymond hotel, sat in the Office of
Chief Freeman, confessing, fact by fact,
under a heavy crossfire of questions,
their parts in the largest and most
cleverly planned diamond ROBBERY ever
committed in Southern California
Wilson was arrested yesterday
morning at the Hotel Maryland and
Morgan was arrested yesterday after
noon in Pasadena, where he had gone
from Los Angeles to procure legal
counsel for his friends.
Turned States Evidence
Chief Freeman says that the facts in
the case have been wormed, little by
little, from the three men they have in
custody, but it is believed that one of
them has turned states evidence. and
the sweating process which went on
until early this morning is for the pur-
pose of drawing a confession from the
other two of their own accord.
1t is said by the police that Morgan
Is wanted by the police in San Fran
cisco and that the name is an assumed
one. Who Wilson is they refuse to
say, but it is believed that he also has
a record.
Chief Freeman believes that he has
captured three of a gang Of hotel
thieves operating on the Pacific coast,
and that within a few days the stolen
jewelry would have been dug UP and
sent east, to be disposed of there.
At $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Mr.. Edey was notified of the discov-
cry of his wife's property and after
examining the contents of the box,
said that not only was there nothing
missing, but there were several valu-
able trinkets which his wife did not
know had been stolen.
Wilson Committed Robbery
The police say Carl Wilson is the
one who robbed the casket CASTOR or
Doyle was the one who planned the
robbery and gave Wilson the oppor-
tunity to do the work, while Morgan
is the man who received the valuables
after they had been stolen and secreted
them under the pepper tree, where they
were found yesterday afternoon.
"At every opportunity" said Chief
of Police Freeman last night, "Gaston
sent Wilson to the rooms occupied by
the Edeys. In five or six days, Will
son managed to make impressions of
the keyes which unlock the trunk
which contained the diamonds and
Friday afternoon, between and
o'clock. when Mrs. Edey was in Los
Angeles Wilson brought the plan of
eheft to a successful elimination. He
handed over the stolen property ~
Doyle. Doyle placed the diamonds in
cigar box filled with tissue paper
to keep them from rattling. He then
after the theft, addressed the package
to Harry Kellam Black, Monrovia,
and placed it in the postoffce as third
class matter.
"Wilson, with the hope of throwing
the blame on others, when he left the
room, dropped an embroidered hand
kerchief, q button-hook and a photo
graph of young woman, and after
the police had started to work on the
case both he and Doyle sought to in
criminate those with whom they were
working.
Morgan Receives Jewels
Morgan was we'll able to take care
of himself.
early Saturday morning he called
for the package at Monrovia and re-
ceived 1t from the postmaster. From
Monrovia he went to Los Angeles and
thence to the Rotel Raymond The
stolen property he buried early Sunday
morning a quarter of mile from the
hotel and to mark the place placed an
empty orange box over the spot
I'VE have traced his every movement I
from the time he received the package
at Monrovia and in that way we have
arrived at the place where the dia-
monds were concealed. When Captain
Austin kicked aside the box we saw
that the earth under 1t had been lately
disturbed and after digging hole ten
inches deep we came upon the cigar
box"
Secured Job at the Maryland
Morgan came to Los Angeles with
Doyle and roomed with him at the Lee
land hotel I'm Los Angeles before either
Of them had found work in the hotels
at Pasadena. After Doyle obtained
the position of head bell boy at the
Hotel Maryland by giving false creden-
tials and representing himself to be r.