The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-03
GOT MINNEAPOLIS LOOTER
WHO TRIED TO BURY HIMSELF
IN ALIASES HERE.

Throw Hin Down and Find a Colts
Automatic on Hlm-Much Jewelry
Stolen From DIR. maui Recovered.
Charged with having stolen jewelry, eil-
verware, stocks and bonds valued at $780,
900 from DR.. Nicholas j. Pinault, a surgeon
Of Minneapolis. Thomas j.. Wainwright,
who was at one time employed as a cure
taker by the doctor, was looked up at Police
Headquarters last night. The arrest was
made at the request Of. Chief Doyle Of the
Minneapolis police by Detective Dougherty
of the Pinkertons and Detective Sergeant
Murphy.
DR., ,Pinault lives at l1o8 Mount Curve
avenue, Minneapolis. He goes to Pass
Christian in the winter. This winter Vain
wright answered his advertisement for a
caretaker. He produced satisfactory rec
concentrations, now thought to nave been
forged, and got the place.
Wainwright was left in sole charge and
after the doctor had gone proceeded to
pack up everything valuable that could
be carried away in trunks. He also forged
the doctors signature to an order on the
Minneapolis Safe Deposit Company, and
obtained access TO the doctors box in the
NdulJS, ITpIn WHICH le UODh everything
negotiable. Some Of the securities he
disposed Of at once and DR.. Pinault first
learned Of the robbery when a bank In
st. Cloud telegraphed him that certain
stock bearing his name had been sold.
h doctor returned to Minneapolis to find
that his house had been stripped. The care
'taker had left town with a woman.
Detective ~Dougherty found that Vain
wrght's trunks had come to New York
over the Pennsylvania line and had been
forwarded to Boston, He traced them back
to New York again and to a boarding house
in Forty-sixth street near Fifth avenue.
He foundt the boarding house last Saturday,
but Wainwright had moved. Dougherty
found that he had given some stuff on con-
signment to Wrone It Wrone, jewellers and
dealers in antiques. At the shop it was
learned that Wainwright had represented
himself as a lawyer just, returned from
settling an estate in France and said that
the jewelry he wished to dispose Of had
been given him in part payment. He took
the dealers to a safe deposit place near by,
whore he had rented a box. He took out
what appeared to be an ancient parchment
written in French, from which he read some
oOcSAtPNicli VI lic III no III ptCh CLlb
to settle. Then he showed the jewelry.
This was on March 10, and at that time
Wainwright was living at the Hotel Man.
haitian under the name Of James A. Stew
art. His safe deposit box was in the name
Of W. j. Tyler,
The detectives found out about the box
on Friday, and yesterday Wainwright.
who had lived in the house in Fortv-sixth
street under the name of j. w. Williams.
was traced by a check which Wrone &
Wrone had given him as James A. Stewart
and which as Stewart he had indorsed to
Williams. The check passed through a
branch Of the Corn Exchange, where it
had gone to the credit Of Louis P. Chuet.'
Through. the bank Chuet was traced to a
house in Fifty-eighth street near Broadway.
Yesterday afternoon the detectives
looked the place over and were about to go
away when a man answering the descrip-
ton Of Wainwright went, in. ''Dougierty
remained on guard and sent his COM
panion to telephone to a hotel where a
Minneapolis detective and the srpsrin-
tendent Of DR.. Pinault's estate were.
Before these men could arrive THE -suErect
came out, got q cab n had the cabman
bring out d heavy trunk. Dougherty
arrested Wainwright just as he was about
to step into the cab.
At the house in Forty-slSth street the
detectives had been told by the landlady
that Williams always slept with a huge
revolver under his pillow. The detectives
were taking no chances. They threw him
down and searched him at once. Sus-
pended round his neck in u holster VASE
Colts automatic magazine revolver. In a
waist belt were fifteen cartridges, n In
a clip in his pocket were twelve more.
Wainwright made no resistance.
On the way to Police Headquarters he
owned up to the robbery and explained
the ingenious scheme by which he had
kept them 80 long a time in search of him.
He said that he would do all he could to
help in the recovery of the stolen goods.
The trunk and suit case which Wainwright
had placed on the cab were found to con-
tain much fine clothing and a new Colt ~.
with several boxes of cartridges.
Among the jewelry which the detectives
recovered was a large antique brooch set
with 400 small diamonds. It was valued
at so, 900 francs. There was also a watch
said TO have been owned and worn by Car
dinal Richelieu. Among other things were
a pearl pendant valued at $500, a cameo
brooch, an antique pearl brooch, a gold
bracelet set with diamonds emeralds and
rubies; an emerald and diamond cluster
ring of IL stones, and many valuable canoes.
The police have a list Of seventy other
pieces of jewelry which they expect to
recover with Wainwright's help. Valuable
laces which he took from DR.. Pinault's
house Wainwright said he had given to
women at various places.
Wainwright is 80 years old and Of good
appearance. He is believed to belong to
a good Boston family inc to have been a
practising lawyer in that city.
Nominations by the President,