The San Francisco call., 1906-04-21
BARGAIN OFFERED.

NEW YORK, April ia young
man walked into the pawnbroking
salesroom of Rothman & Spiegel, at
No. 136 Park Row, last night shortly
before o'clock and offered for SIS a
diamond necklace. which was ap-
praised afterward at from $1,000 to
$4,000 by the pawnbroker and his
clerk The young man was Edward
Walsh, eighteen years old, of No. 127
Washington street. He said he was a
waiter at the Cafe Savarin at No. 120
Broadway.
The manager of the place, Joseph
Lockmann. was amazed when the low
value was put on the necklace, and
took it to the rear window to show TO
a clerk, who said that he believed it
was cheap at $4,000. Lockmann darted
out of the back door and told Police
man Perkins of the Elizabeth-street
station sOn the way back Perkins
picked up Detectives Duffy and Scurry.
The detectives say the young man
turned white when he saw that sus-
picion was directed against him, but
stolidly offered the necklace again for
SIS. Then they questioned him. and
in reply he said. first, that he had
found the necklace; then. that it be-
longed to his sister, Mamie. 10, whom
some one had given it or bequeathed
it. and that Mamie had given it to
him to raise some money for the rent
and to pay a few bills.
The detectives locked him up in the
Elizabeth- -street station charged with
being a suspicious person. The detec-
tives then went to Walsh's house.
They asked for the mother of the boy.
She lived on the top floor of the build
ing. Their first question was: who
is the red-headed boy that chums with
your SOM"
Why, that's John Renner; he lives
at No. 123 on this street" replied Mrs.
Walsh.
The detectives had asked the ques-
tion because they saw lanky youth
with red hair following them when
they took young Walsh to the station.
AS they stood talking the detectives
heard a soft sound just above their
heads. and reasoned that it was some
one crawling out through the scuttle
on the roof Duffy went downstairs
quickly. and took his stand in front of
No 123. Detective Scurry went up
through the scuttle to the roof and
across the housetops to No. 123. He
opened the scuttle there and went into
the house.
In the apartment where Renner
lived with his family the detective
confronted him with the necklace
story. and. according to Scurry, the
tall, red-headed boy soon confessed.
The story he told the detectives was
nearly complete they say. He said
that he and Walsh worked as drivers
for the United States Express Com
pany at the Jersey Central Railroad
station at Conimunipaw, Nj. They
saw a package marked "jewelry'' ar
rive on Wednesday night, and thought
they would take chance on making
big haul"
To whom the package was addressed
could not be learned. The police say
that the cold -blooded way in which the
Renner youth told of it was enough to
raise suspicion of other robberies. Rem
ner was taken to the Elizabeth street
station and locked up as suspicious
person."
The police got an expert jeweler to
Took at the diamond. and he placed its
value at $4,000.
The necklace contains fifty-seven
stones, ranging from three-quarters of
a karat to one and a half karats each,
set in platinum. with a gold base. The
setting is Tiffany work.