The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-18
N EXYRADIYE TUTOR PARK.
,.wynROKER SAYS HE PLEDGED
' UIGGINSON JEWELS.

,,.cr brooch ana Otner Trihhcts
NV v,,,d on the BOwcry-NIan Arrested
=, Norway Identified In Group Picture
Family can't Believe Him Guilty.
~, officials OF tho Detective Bureau
~ Convinced, they say, that Edw ard Park,
ne ann arrested In Christiansand, or
'po an sunday, Is guilty Of the theft OF
sa, N $4,000 orth Of welry from the
,Ivv lanes Jackson Higginson at 10 East
nou,. .Grs, street. Park was tutor IN
~" family for four years, preparing TWO
W. ,. UIvpinson's sons for college, and the
"' uas reluctant to believe that no was
'a ai,,r eysn in the face of strong evidence
bassr,cd TO them by the Headquarters
electives a nlr ,ost
A.. u,rrnson, W no s a banker at Is Broad
w. '..,.t was out of town and 30 was bis cid
~, son James J. Higginson, Dr. The lam
~ At home consisted OF Mrs. Higglnsoh'
Wv daughter Dorothy and sixteeh-year-
III .on. Park, the tutor, who came 10 the
uIu excellently recommended and
10 has a doctors degree, also lived IN
Mra Higrinsm and her younger son had
.,s, returned from Ardsley-on-the-Hu
w.! Tbey were at lunch on July when
~ robbery took place, Somebody APP
.,,,lv familiar with the house broke
R 20 Miss Dorothy Higginson's room,
I,rced an esoritoire and took diamond
.ooL,aco. n diamond brooch. rings, two
LIVER cigarette cases and pins valued by
shs family at more than $4,000. Several
~ rho pieces were old family herlooms
AVID had a value apart from their intrinsic
worth.
,be workshop OF the younger son OF the
,amily to force the door OF Miss Higgin-
i Ian,s room and to break into her esortoire
IT, :, vas apparent at the time that whoever
.,os the lewelry was entirely familiar
s ";,S the movements Of the family and
'aIscted a time when he would be least
nav to be disturbed. The Higginsons
xsrs unable to furnish the police any clues
and we're not disposed to talk soont inc
'Dstective Sergeant McCafferty was as
,isnsd to the case. He searched tho pawn
mons beginning with the bigger ones on
the Bowery. With the occasional pure
luck that supplements the genius OF Head
quarters sleuths, McCafferty found IN
i Ioss answered the description Of the one
stoen from the Higginson house. he
Questioned the pawnbroker, particularly
Sout the appearance Of the man who had
rsxned the necklace. The pawnbroker
dscribed the man. He was, aocordin
10 the pawnbroker, over feet tall, Of light
complexion. and looked IKE stuoeht OF
Z writer.
That seemed to point to the tutor. Park.
NcCaiferty got a group picture IN which
Park appea red from the Higginsons. The
Awnbroker spotted him in second. he
tod McCafferty that 1t was certainly the
fellow who had pawned the necklace. Mean
While, in another Bowery pawnshop, two
silysr cigarette cases and diamond brooch
belonging to the Higg!nsons had been
found, McCaherty took the gce..p pictu re
to pawnbroker No. 2, and he picked out
Park az the man who had pawned the arti-
accanerty placed his information on. be- e.
bsHeye that Park could be guilty. and 40
cspted the facts with the utmoS ieiuot-
snoe, Ths tutor meanwhile had saiied for
Europe, leaving hero on July s'a'passenger
on board the Soandina WAN liner
United States. bound for Christiansand'
broksr Identified tark's picture the tutor,
according to Detective MoCaferty, asked
for leave OF absence, engaged passage IN
Ills own name and left the country.
Police Headquarters put the facts they
had In possession Of the Christiansand po..
lice and they arrested Park as he stepped
Cd the United States on Sunday. As re-
suit Of the arrest the New York police re.
osived the oablegra from the Prefect OF
PoNoe At Christiansand published In THE
Sun Yesterday Edward Park arrived.
No Jewels found. Arrested
The arrest, according to Police Head
quarters, was brought about at the direct
request OF the State Department, acting on
notification by Gov. Higgins. The Coy
emor has since communicated with the
Acting Secretary OF State again and the
Norwegian authorities have been asked
10 bold Park.
The police said yesterday that requisi.
ton papers were being prepared and that
Park would be brought back to this country
u soon as possible. McCaherty will be
sent to fetch him.
/ The only member Of the Higginson family
that could be seen yesterday was the daugh'
Ter, Miss Dorothy Higginson.
y cannot believe, said she, 1that Mr.
Park is the thief He came to us too highly
recommended He was an inferno at the
Presbyterian Hospital wi ben we engage
him. He was always gentlemanhke and the
most refined sort OF man. He was engaged
10 take care OF my brother, who needeo
be care OF physician as we'll as tutor
Three weeks ago Mr.. Park asked for leave
d absence and my father granted 1t IN
hAGtatngly Nothing will make me be-
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