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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-05
REAL TROUBLE CAME AFTER THE ROBBERY
Experiences of Woman With Policemen Private Detectives and Pawnboks Trying
IN Rerover Sfoon ovpIr,

Up on the upper West Side. the hold-up
district, as 1t is now known to the residents
thereof, a young woman who was recently
robbed Of about 81 900 worth of jewelry
told Of the sensations attached to the
experience.
I have a small safe downstairs she
said, but after seeing picture In a comic
paper Of sneak thief who did not bother
70 open such cafe, but tucked 1t under
his arm and walked of with Il, came
10 the conclusion that there WAS very little
security in safe except its name. Conse-
quenty, got into the habit Of putting my
jewels into the upper drawer of my dressing
table. You would be amazed il you knew
the number Of women who do that sort of
thing even after the lessons Of this winter
Just when the jewels disappeared ]
don't know. went to dress ono night
and wanted n chain Of amethysta. with an
amethyst pendant. That and a number
of other pieoes--a watch bracelet and two
emerald solitaire rings--were gone.
Il called up the police station and a
policeman came around. The servants
were under suspicion at once, They were
horribly and hopelessly outraged.
The butler was the most disguised and
left the next day. My personal maid went
to bed H. The cook and tho other maid
sulked. not the usual kitchen and parlor
sullS, but an oil over the place injured air,
which did not tend 20 make me any hap
pier.
But this was not the end OF my trouble.
When you lose your jewels they are lost
and gone and that Is all there Ia to it-un-
less you have taken out insurance against
robbery on them. When you have burglar
policy, your worry is Just beginning.
Don't think for a moment that the
surety company which had insured me
against loss woke me up early the next
morning to repay me the money. without
a protest. The jewels we're stolen in the
Christmas holidays and have not received
the money yet; but it ia all right. l am told
that will get 1t this week. Meantime my
happiness has been sacrificed on the altar
OF those heirlooms.
-Of course they we're helrlooms and
that fact made It harder for me to get a
settlement, had no bin OF sale to prove
their value, and only the assertions Of sew
eral jewellers TO whom ! had taken the m
from time to time to be cleaned and re-
paired and whose remembrances OF them
were rather vague, too vague for any
practical purpose.
The company has detectives Of It's own
and they we're Immediately put on the
trail Of the jewels the suspect being an
alleged telephone man. / remembered
distinctly while was reading in my sitting
room seeing him through the door and
wondering why such a nicely dressed.
refined looking chap should be around
looking at telephones
1T was long time before detective No.
could convince mo that this man was
the thief for he looked enough like chap
used to dance with about at different
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parties TO have been a cousin. told the
detective that, and a lot moro. In fact In
the end I realized that bad given up a
matinee to tell the history Of my gems.
1t took me the better part of an after
noon, while the detective sat In the easy
chair and listened amiably, rather as II
he hated to go out In the cold than because
he had any real interest In the matter. But
| can talk when get started, and there vas
nothing left for him TO know when got
through.
i told him that got the Jewels through
my husbands mother whore she got them,
where she had worn them, what people
said to her. where I had worn them and
what had been said TO me. I admitted that
had been careless. and he woke up long
enough to state that all women were. Then
he went home,
The next afternoon, Just as I was getting
ready for a bridge whist party, Detective
No. strolled In with an T've-come-to-stay-
air. took OF my things and sat down with
him.
He was ono Of the cynical sort: didn't
believe that I ever had had any jewels,
apparently. He smoked three Of husbands
good cigars and had two highballs. Then
he told me I was the real thing and that
he thought had put too low valuation
on my goods.
HE said az he went down stairs that
he should ten the company so and that in
stead OF the sum named In my policy he
had no doubt they would double it after
his statements to them Then he went out
into the night-it was night by that time.
snatnoti,na No ~ thn ~ ca1
business sort. He didn't care anything
about historical "Reminiscences. nor for the
fact that my mother-in-law had been COM
plimented by French Ambassador on the
une1ampled purity Of her jewels. he
wanted to geo what had left and compare
my statements OF the value OF those had
lost with them. Hts whole manner seemed
to say that my jewels were paste and that
this was a trick to get the best OF his COM
pany
in my agitation I held out an awful old
ring, the only one in my whole collection
that had never worn and had simply kept
because had nothing else TO do with it.
The ring was an old mine diamond with a
lot Of flaws in Il. Detective picked It up
and said:
"'Ha, That's the kind Of Jewels you
lost is 1t? Couldn't sell It even on Four
tenth street
Then I got mad and showed him some
articles that made him retrant everything
he had said OF thought. 1 went further
and told him that had Just about reached
the limit OF my endurance In the suspicion
line. That IL his company was willing to
send TO the jewellers who had cleaned my
jewelry. take their recollection OF the value
and duplicate them would be satisfied.
He quoted down after that. refused the
highballs. but took two cigars and left
That ended the first chapter
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The second chaptsr was equally un-
pleasant.
Il was hailed out OF bed ono morning about
8 o'clock by the telephone and told by the
detective at the other end that I was to
/ meet him at a certain pawnbrokers at
half past o. rushed into my clothes and
got there.
NO detectivel told the pawnbroker
what had como for, and he was so mad
that thought he would eject me forcibly
I waited an hour and half. then went
home and teleph oned Official said I had
gone TO the wrong place. He didn't seem
TO know where the right place was and /
had another lost day to calendar
Two or three days later l was sent 10
another pawnbroker's. This time the de-
tective came and we sat there for hours
going over every piece Of jewelry in the
place and trying to find my lost articles.
the pawnbroker as mad az the other one.
I'VE finally discovered an amethyst chain
which | have seen duplicated all winter in
department stores for 81 or So and which
the detective was certain was my property.
Tho ono had lost had been appraised by
one jeweller who mended setting ma
worth $780, and another jewellers estimate
was even higher.
Il will relate little experience which
almost finished me, had taken my little
daughter Marian with me to pawnshops
two or three times. and she was interested
as child naturally would be. In seeing the
jewelry. One afternoon we we're coming
home from MATINEE the chr was filed
with fashionable crowd going home after
the theatre.
AT one end I recognized man with
whose wife L had had little tiff about
bridge whist prize. and all OF sudden
Marian spoke up-she has remarkably
high pitched voios-and said.
Mamma, are we going TO the pawn
brokers' this afternoon
y thought | would sink through the floor,
II YOU could have seen the glanoes got,
and tho husband Of my friend seemed 30
pleased. He had nice bit OF gossip to tell
wife
Another amusing incident In conneo-
tion with this robbery, which also explains
Marian's interest in our visits to the pawn
brokers', is that her little penny bank, with
all its savings, disappeared at the same
time with the jewels as 1t rested on top Of
the dresser. Her little sister, Elise, Is the
spendthrift OF the family and Marian the
saver.
Every cent Marian gets she slows away
and every one Of tho family. knowing her
habits, has kept the bank filed and remon.
strated with Elise on her e1travagancce
don't know what tho moral OF such story
is, but do know that Elise goes about
saying:
Well, had my candy. anyway, ard
YOU didn't get nothin''
It's hard to bring children up properly
when such things upset all your teachings
How can I ever convince Marian again that
1t is wise to save against rainy day.
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EASY GRAFT
l. IN THIS TOWN
Three Simple Ways to Get Money
From the Unwary Tried On
Man Who Thinks
Himself Sharp.

'Ive been swindled three times in the
last year." said a man in the Wall Street
district who considers himself fairly wise
hsh, 'and suppose lot Of other business
men in New York could say the same thing
If they weren't ashamed t..
-I}unoo No. was rather crude and old,
and never should have been caught by it.
A fellow came along and told me that he
was familiar with my social prominence
and was taking the liberty Of showing me
volume In which most Of the young men
Of the 400 were Interested. 1t hadn't been
finished. but l could judge bow lovely 1t
would be Inter on.
1t was to be full OF engravlngs OF mo
ich and famous young men OF New York,
with biographies opposite. lie suggested
that go to certain Fifth avenue photog-
rapher and have portrait especially pre-
pared for the book. 1t would be printed
between Vanderbilt and an Aston.
Il asked the cost, He pulled out sub
scripton book and said that the other
fellows we're giving what they pleased.
/ saw that the highest was $500 and the
lowest s25. 80 l gave him S25.
His photographer was TO como around
the next day and get the stirring story Of
my life. He did come around and promised
a proof OF the biography on tho day after
that.
When the proof arrived II was so full
Of inaccuracies as to names and dates that
called up the con mans Office TO tell him
not to run tho sketch. He was out, but
bis clerk told me In n suspiclously meohani-
cal way that it was too late. the book had
gone to press.
Il dropped into the Office the next day.
1t wasn't big enough for a cat to jump In.
found the swindler and told him that
knew the book never would be published.
but that would not complain TO the police
II he would kindly give $40 OF the ,25 to
charity.
HE valid he would, and let 1t 60 at that.
But my other experiences were less like
being sandbagged
a lively fellow popped into my Office
and asked me what my electric light bill
cost me month. ! thought no was a
tenant in the same building. but at any
rate, il was no great secret that my bills
ran about so, and told him 50.
10y on don't mean it, he said with appar-
ent astonishment. They ought not to cost
you a quarter OF that
Then he explained that he made a bust
ness Of examining electric light and gas
bills and getting tremendous rebates He
assured me that he had collected 1900
overcharges for one client.
His fee, he said. was half the saving,
but II l wanted 10 make q years contract
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-05
M AIDE A HAUL
IVl BY LISTENING.
A Case In Which In quisitiveness and
knowledge of the Morse
Code Proved Profitable.

i had TO quit telegraphy ten years ago.
said the man wearing the glasses, -because
my eyes went back on me. In my time
there we're few telegraphers who could
take newspaper copy quicker than I. 1t
was awful wearing on my weak eyes,
though and 1t was a case of going blind II
| stuck at the key.
My knowedge Of telegraphy has often
come IN handy since quit and few times
this knowledge has increased my bank
roll. For instance:
About a year ago I stroled into the
western Union branch Office in Broad
way and Thirty-first street to telephone
The telephone IA in the rear OF the office
back of the telegraph operators cage
Il had trouble in getting my telephone
connection, and while / was waiting for
the number had called a man entered the
office and wrote couple OF telegrams.
He franked them, and knew he must be
somebody OF Importance, because the
made me anxious to find out who the man
was, and when finished telephoning, hav-
Ing obtained my number, said TO the
clerk who collected my dime;
That's the way to send MESA ges,
send EN- free, like that man who Just went
out.i Know who no ISL said the clerk
'Nope, replied l.
That's MIR. George Could said he
a moment later tho telegraph KEY began
70 click The operator in the office was
all business at once. Maybe WAS taking
a mean advantage, but just couldn't help
listening to the message he was sending.
1t went to Connecticut and ran like This.
Adamant and Disciple Paul viii soar
tomorrow
-That's simple little message. isn't IT,
II wasn't simple to me though, and per
haps wouldn't be 10 any man who didn't
know much about Wall Street But when
you sign the name OF we'll known flnancier
TO such a message ii must have some mean
ing and | was quite sure that message
meant a great deal.
Il spent two hours trying TO figure out
what il meant. and then bright idea struck
mo ] remembered an operator with whom
i used to be chummy when | was In the
business. He worked in a brokers' Office
and | doped il out that IL any one could
decipher that message he could
$50 | hiked up 10 Harlem and got him
out Of bed Then | told him about the
message | had overheard and whose name
was attached to il.
Can you dope it out7' asked
'Surest thing you know. he replied.
'Adamant is Rock Island and Disciple Paul
means st. Paul
you could have knocked me down with
feather. II all seemed simple enough
when he explained. Well. together we
raked up all the loose coin we could get
and early the next morning we hot footed /
to a downtown broker We bought Rock
Island and we bought st. Paul. Both
stocks went up that day and cleared $500
because Of n little bit OF rubberinR NV
operator friend raked in little easy money
too, and everybody was satisfied Know
ing the Morse code is a mighty useful thing
It's more than paid me-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-05
UNDER TWO SPELLS.
Franks Mother an Easy Mark for the
Suburban Photographer.

The suburban photographer Is frequently
a genius if not always an artist Frank
Bhncker was playing at the corner a week
ago, and while his boy friends were chasing
a ball, a benevolent, middle aged man
came up and said
Hello, Frank; wouldn't you like 10 have
your picture taken1-
Frank would, OF course SO the arts,
posed him against a fence and started tho
operation. When this was done Frank
oheerfully told his house number. The
photographer told when tho picture would
be ready and Frank made an appointment
10 meet his artist friend on the same
corner
A few days passed and the sun got
chance to develop the picture, lttle
later Franks doorbell rang and the middle
aged man presented himself to deliver the
goods.
i came 10 leave your sons picture
he said. Il have two copies Of II and The
charge Is only 81 for each portrait
But | did not order any pictures, and
] will not pay for them. said an impression
able mother
But, madam continued the man you
have not seen the pictures Look at Tint
dear boyish face, the embodiment OF child
ish innocence and goodness. I am sure TINT
the heart OF any mother would leap for Joy
TO see her darling immortalized IN this
graceful manner
How much did you say the charge ~uaF>
said the now helpless and fascinAtee
woman.
Two dollars TO you, madam; and II
must be a pleasure to have such dear
child in your home"
Tint was enough. The money was paid
and while Mrs. Blinoker added new page
to her book Of experience the man depart"d.
wondering which was greater the speii Il
art or the spell Of eloquence
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THE sun. SUNDAY MARCH 5, 1905.

put him about $4,000 In the hole. with
a slim chance of ever getting back any
OF the money invested.
BY the end OF the second week the at
tendance began 10 fall Of. and the third
week business was very bad dropping
20 s2loo. Some OF tho players handed
in their two weeks notlos and the manager
decided TO close the show in order to pro-
teot what money the angel still had left
The angel reluctantly consented. and they
broke the news TO Dotte and the COM
pany.
Next day Dottie didn't appear at the
theatre and an understudy went on In
her place. One OF tho chorus men was
also missing. but nothing was thought
Of this incident
Tho second night Dottis failed again
30 appear and tho manager sent to her
fat. Everything had been stored and Miss
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he would do my work for 800 for thai
period. | figured that on the peroenta e
basis he might get $500 year but | beat
him down from 500 to $50, paid him and got
his contract
He instructed me TO mail my light bill
10 him each month and he would mark any
errors and send it back in such shape that
the lighting company would come OF itt
perch in q minute So when my next bill
came inI think it was for 236-I mailed
it TO the Con Bunk Revising Company, or
whatever he called It,
The bill came back TO me tho next day
1t had been stamped o. K.--C B. r. CO.
Tho following bill day the thing was re-
pested.
q went to the revising company's office.
My friend of the glib tongue was not there,
but young woman clerk was there and she
was as busy as a bee opening letters from
clients, hitting them with an o. h. stamp
and remailing them.
Il closed the door on the distressing scene
and propelled myself to the street with a
series of easy kicks
Now for the crown OF my sorrows
manufacture n proprietary article which
costs very little--about a fifth OF its retail
price, There came TO me a man who said
he represented a magazine with circula-
ton of 800 900.
He showed copy Of 1t and said that it
bad great popularity in tho rural districts.
He wanted me 10 advertise and said he
would take pay 10 the stuff | made.
This looked pretty good TO me, partic-
ularly when he consented to let me put In
my stuff at retail price. ! signed years
contract to take $50 worth OF advertising
every month. TO be paid for ID goods
monthly.
The day after tho appearance OF the first
Issue containing my advertisement stran-
ger came into my Office and remarked that
he had seen my advertisement He seemed
excited about II and finally told me that
was being swindled, that the magazine had
not more than 800 circulation and that II
was getting goods undor false pretenoes.
I'm In tho same fix as you are, he de-
clared. and I'm not going to give them
any more of my products
so ! notified the magazine publishers
that did not care 70 do any business. /
did send them the first months payment
and figured that had lost only sli.
'The magazine continued to print my
ad,' and at the end OF the year its pub
fishers sued me for 1918 for the eleven months
unpaid They got judgment for this and
costs. for | found it impossible TO prove
their circulation was not what II was pre-
tended TO be. They were giving away
the magazines at wholesale in big depart
ment stores.
You probably have guessed that the
man who warned me was a partner OF the
man who made the contract, They didn't
want my manufactured stuff They wanted
hard cash, and they got it.
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pottie had disappeared The newspa pers
got hold OF the story and found that Dottie
had sailed for Europe with the missing
chorus man, whom shs had only known
a few weeks
THAT proved tho final blow. The show
closed suddenly, the production was adver-
tsed for sale. and whom the angel counted
up his losses he was loser TO the extent
of almost 1000.
But he was game loser-as game as
any ever saw.
Il wouldn't mind losing the money
he said. I have plenty more, and can get
more. But TO think Of the rank ingrah-
tude Of Dotte-thats where tho ehoe
pnches. honestly thought was doing
a philanthropio action In advancing her
artistic career, and she never even thanked
me for my pains It's rank ingratitude,
40 1t is
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Flowers in Fancy Colors and shapes.
From Ne Millinery Trad. Reriev.

FTOln N WHhnerp Trddt Rfricp.
The application Of colors other than those
natural TO the flowers is very much resorted
20 this season. Lilac is shown In every fash
ionable tint. plain or RlacA. Another flower
which lends Itself TO such treatment u the
ten-week stock. ForRet-me-not IL TO be
had in all shades OF blue. as well rs It's own
light blue. and also in vivid green
These and other flowers are nnde good use
or but roses continue 10 hold the proud
position Of prime faVoritcs. There is a ten
dency not only 10 produce them In all colors
but also In variety Of strange shapes. There
are full blown roses the petals Of which lie
almost Dat, Some Of these have the heart
quite on one side Instead Of In the centre.
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How Engineers Find hearings In Fox

FF0W Wt LONDON Uuuu W1N
when ! was n guard said Mf Richard
Bell. NJ. j., Yesterday. I could sit IN my
van with my eyes shut and tell vhero the
train was at any moment Working ono
section continuously one gets to learn ''e
Rhythmic song Of the road and how u varies
at each signal box. station. curve. grad.
tunnel and bridge
The sixth stnse. which is more than rn'-'
herring. - o! tho utmost value 10 q Dr.. ,r'
curing fog Denied the use 81 his Crs~.
familiar road.
A driver cannot learn now road IN
he Is Btoking. which should occupy d..
time. He should always be allowed M trat'l
as third man on the footplate. unfcttrref Hl
Work, and IN two or three days. by Keep.
hls eyes aud ears open, be would learn 30
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-02-03
CHURCH LOT
IS GIVEN
By Mr.. Barnes TO the Baptists For An
Edifce At Worthwhile
Handsome Gift.

The First Baptist church of this city
has received most valuable gift tnat
will very greatly advance the work that
is being carried on at its Northview
mission. MIR. r. u. Barnes, VINO rccent.
" united with the church by letter, has
donated fine lot of ground, 80xls0' fee.
on which to erect house or worship
Tne lot originally belonged to TIC
Pritchard estate, is directly on The com.
ty road. and in most conspicuous anl
commanding location. II was sold !,
Mr. Barnes some years ago for $3.50
but is easily worth muc, more tnls
that now. A fund was being raised To
wards the purchase of another lot fo'
which negotiations wrr, pending, bu,
tnat money can nof be put directly int,
\ building. which. 1t Is hoped. can b
erected during tilis year
The mission WORKERS and the mera-
bess Of the church are mighty delighted
With this generous and cnnrit,bie act
and It mas been suggested tnet whoa
IT, building is erected it be callei tis
sBarnfs Memorial Baptist Chapel il
|lpcr,ory Of Miss ifatfip Raraes a iauei'
ar of 9fr. Baenes. who died last J,iy
aad who was nj the time tie secr,fa-s
Of tne Sunday school
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