The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-15
GETS BACK HER NECKLACE.
MRS. DWELLE AND ADOLPH DAVIS
REACH TERMS OF PEACE.

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.as Mrs. Helen Dwelle OF the Hotel Gotham
and Memphis, Tenn, all day. yesterday,
and amid the smoke OF the iashlight she
told Magistrate Mayo in the private ex-
animation room OF the Jefferson Market
police court her legal yearnings for that
5000 diamond necklace which she charged
Adolph J. Davis with keeping from her.
Davis, who lives at the Hotel Gregorian,
and who says that he owns gold and silver
mines, had il all framed up to marry Helen
Last Friday. Just before the joyful day
came, however, Adolph says he got a bunch
6hst he had gone too far in giving Mrs. Dwelle
$1,000 or IS. 600 with which to buy a trousseau
and that the only way he could think OF
getting it back was to get hold OF the neck
lace, lock it in his safe and throw the key
away.
The hearing yesterday was the third air
ing the troubles Of Adolph and Helen have
had In Jefferson Market. Last week when
oil was still gladness Helen handed over
her 5000 necklace to Adolph when her
sweetheart told her he could sell II for
$4,000 that day TO a Mrs. Nussbaum. a
friend Of his living at the Hotel Savoy.
She says that a few hours later Adolph
Game up to the Gotham to upbraid her
about something or other, and said that
ne nau ueCIucu W hCcP IA ehi~S NJ
remembrance Of the s. 900 he had given her
IN real money.
Helen nae Adolph arrested on q charge
OF grand larceny, and during hearings on
last Friday and Sunday the lawyers got
through all Helen's history from the time
of her marriage and subsequ ent divorce
from a person named Dwelle up 90 a week
ago last Monday, when Helen and her
sister, Mrs. Sam Levy. came on from Mem
phis for the marriage.
II was estimated that Helen had on only
about 1920 worth OF clothes yesterday,
but IL was brought out in the testimony
chat when she really wants to look dressed
abe pays 5000 for a street gown. She
resembles Anna Held, but is prettier and
roes in for color schemes. Yesterday she
wore that old rose outfit, the one OF imported
velvet, with the crushed strawberry feather
boa, the cerise spats and the long cores OF
scrambled egg silk. She spoke of it de-
precatingly, however. Her sister, Mrs.
Sam Levy, stuck TO brown where she wasn't
ermine. .
Mr.. Davis wore his beard pointed and
his hair bald. Maurice Blumenthal, Helen's
lawyer, stuck to simple oolors, but his
brother Dan added a touch or two OF color
10 the setting with his mauve waistooat and
an OTQAn6DJal uduukcf CHiCt W w" $50
blue. The court officers we're in uniform
and Magistrate Mayo wore his gold glasses.
with slight interruptions during the day
while the camera squad got new poses and
che Magistrate left the inner room now and
then to clear up the prisoners bench out
In the courtroom, the hearing lasted from
10 O'Clock in the morning until about 4
O'Clock in the afternoon. When II was
ended Helen got her necklace back upon
promising she would give NJ Adolph's love
letters. There was no mention in court OF
her returning the 5000 advanced for tho
rousseau.
The proceedings started 'sw1ftly with a
6srelp bet ween the lawyers about the case
being tried in the newspapers. MI Hess
said Mr.. Blumenthal was "a big blum, ana
that he had the camera squad down 70 ms
office to pilot ograph his good looking client.
MT. Blurnenthal said that Mr.. Hess was
twisted with excitement and that Mr.. Hess
had given out interviews 20 an evening
paper. The Magistrate said that the case
would be tried ON its merits, and then every
body got a fresh hold and waded in.
Mrs. DweIle thought she was married 10
Mr.. Dwelle when she was about IS years
old, but wasn't sure.
1t was very Young then" she said, and
I can't remember the time exactly. why
Mr.. Hess she continued, appealing 10 the
lawyer when he pressed her Tor "details o.
p OlC Uni 3D.
off. know | wore short dresses then and
in inst a little while Mr.. Dwelle got a divorce
from me. Now may pause to take a drink
of watery-
xraciously. Il take a drink myself nov
and them
from Helen that she had bought the necklac'
out of ~her own money" in Memphis at tht
beginning Of yhis month and that she nae
then hit out for little old New York. Adolph
after being introduced to her at Sarstogs
last summer, had gone to Memphis and go'
when did YOU come to the crucial polntP
asked Mr.. Hess. What is the date OF the
beginning of your engagement"
why, I can remember replied Helen
:s Hd then son : R Poppy hunt nHO Ss the e" date Il that
Mr.. Adolph Davis bought an engagement
ring from Tiffany? You could trace tn
engagement from that"
Davis had gone down to Memphis anc
had given her a check book on his accoun
in the Union and Planters Bank Of Memphis
each check signed by Adolph. She was =
use discretion, of course, about nlhng II
as that the check book, Mrs, DwelleI
asked Mr.. Hess, as he tossed what was lei
Of il on the table. Have you seen tina
check book before?' -
sAh. yes" che answered softly. Indies
have seen that check book BEFORE sh'
said with feeling.
First Mr.. Davis CAV me $500 for M
rousseau in October last, continued Mrs
Dvelle in answer to further questioning
Next he gave me 81 200, and the next cheSl
was for $500, I think. He made these check
payable TO my brother-in-Law Mr.. '
because he thought that would be 2 nicer
much nicer, &ay OF doing it. Memphi
is such a small town, you know, and peopl
Just will talk, won't they? You know nov
l. is in a small town.
Then / began to buy my trousseau
The baby lamb outfit cost 5000 mere o.
Fifth avenue. 1t isn't finished yet, but o
course III pay for il when It Is: Then
BOUGHT aome more things in st. Louis an
some in Chicago and, oh, all over. IN
necklace that Mr.. Davis took from me
bought from a jeweler named Freeman,
Adolph's lawyer.
Mr.. Blumenthal rose 10 object 10 NOR
questions about Friedman and Mr.. Hes
then said that he wanted to show tnat IN
complainant never owned the hecklaG