The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-18
CHIEF HASTHE DIAMOND
JEWEL VALUED AT s4oo LOST BY
 FEMALE PICKPOCKET.
Believed Woman Who Omered sfOo Re- ward for Recovery of stone Id Lily Tyler, Arrested h
 Hirmingham.


 valued at $a0Q which was found in the Montgomery Union railway station on | October 23 and was delivered to Police Chief GeraA,, who stul has it, was lost by woman whosis held in Birming- ! ham as notorious pickpocket.
 On the morning of October g. among | the throng of passengers on Atlantic l Coast Line train No. 57 which arrived l in Montgomery at S:05 a. m. was man and woman. With the balance of 1 the passengers they came through the | gates and went into the general wait | ing room, the woman proceeding to the ! ladies' waiting room. It was not long after that before this man and woman rushed up to Special Police Onicer Payne and the man informed him that the woman had dropped somewhere In the union station building valuable { diamond setting from ring which she turned over to the >efiicer. Leaving their address the man and woman hur- ricd over tc Louisville and Nashville train No. and left for Birmingham. Golng into tho ladies waiting room Detective Payne told Susie Elston, the negro attendant. of the loss of the dia- mond and asked her to make a search for it. Susie says that she at once began sweeping under benches and making a thorough search of the room In the ladies' toilet she found a large
 
 mirror. She handed the stone to Mir Payne who delivered it to Police Chief Gerald.
 Superintendent J.. I. Mckinney of the Mobile and Mont gomery division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. tclephoned the Chief of Police as soon as he heard of the matter asking him not to deliver theNdiamond to anybody until it had been identified In Mir. Me Ninneys presence. This Chief Gerald readily agreed to, and since then. lock- ed up in one of the safety deposit boxes in the Chiefs office the diamond worth somewhere in the neighborhood of s4o0 has been waiting for it's owner.
 When the early morning Coast Line train reached Montgomery on the morning of October 23 1t preceded the | special train bearing President Roose- | welt and party by about three hours. | The Presidents special came in from | Jacksonville and went to Mobile at II | o'clock that q morning. At midnight | that night the special returned to Montgomery and went to Tuskegee at ' o'clock Tuesday morning. At noon | Tuesday it returned to Montgomery | and the President spent two hours in | this city leaving for Birmingham at 2 o'clock that afternoon. This is his- tory
 When the Presidents train reached | Birmingham Tuesday afternoon a wo- | man was arrested by the police in tho | act of lifting watch from the vest of | a man in the big crowd at the union | railway station in that city. She threw | something to a man, evidently an ac- | complice, who made his escape before | the Birmingham police could get to him through the crowd of people | When the woman was locked up shc | gave her name as Lily Ray Tyler. It developed that she was the woman who | passed through Montgomery and lost the diamond in the ladies' toilet room who was with her being Ray Tyler | said to be the one who got away in-I the crowd at the Birmingham depot | when the woman was arrested.
 Tho supposition is that this couple | followed the President's train on tho | Southern tour and working the crowds waiting to receive him. The President | was in Jacksonville just before coming | to Montgomery and the man and wo- | man came to Montgomery just ahead ] of his special train. The special train | was to be in Birmingham Tuesday af- , ternoon and Monday morning the l couple went to Birmingham and were caught doing their light-iingercd act when the Presidents train reached 1 there.
 "Yes, I have the diamond and do not | intend to give 1t up until 1t has been thoroughly identified" said Chief Ger aid yesterday. T have received sey- eral letters from Chief wier of Bir- | tninghan in regard to the matter, and l he says that the man, Ray Tyler, claims l he can identify the stone. The man | and woman claimed Detroit as their | home and I wrote to the Chief of Po- | lice in that city and sent him photo- graphs of tho couple. Letters have also been forwarded to the alleged ad- l dress of the couple in Detroit, but ns | the woman is still in jail in Birming- | ham of course they have not received | them.
 T have since learned that there is ! an alias tackled on to the name of the | couple-Ray Tyler alias Johnson--but 1 thefe has hardly been time for me to | heaf from tho Chief of Police of De- | troit. This man. Ray Tyler alias John | son, told Chief Wier that he would go | to Montgomery to Identify his wifes | diamond. This morning I received n | letter from Chief Wier saying that the | man would be in Montgomery Satur- | day, and whether the diamond was or | iginally stolen or not if he proves to | the thorough satisfaction of Mr. Me, | Kinney and myself of course there IS | nothing left for me to do but to turn | the stone over to him." T
 There is said to be a reward of $tOp | for the recovery of the diamond, and | the question now is to whom will that l reward go. Susie Elston, the negro | waitress at the union station, found | the diamond, her search being made | upon the Houest of Special ohicer Payne.