The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11
dug UP BOISSEVAN JEWELS.
THIEF a FORMER SERVANT,
SHARED BY DETECTIVE.

Thought He Had Found q Pal and WaSn'e
Arrested TIL He HAD Taken $1,000
worth Of stolen Property From Its
Hiding place At Mount kiscs.
Two young men left this city on election
night and went to Mount Kisco. There
one Of them waited in the shadows Of the
Mount Kisco railway station while tho
other went down the country road and
dug UP $40 900 worth Of stolen jewelry
that he had buried in the Hebrew cemetery.
The one who waited at the station is De-
tective Sylvester Cosgrove OF Drymmond's
Detective Agency, 1 Ann street. The man
who dug up the jewels and is now under
arrest charged with grand larceny is oseph
Anderson, formerly employed as second
man" at Moorland the Mount Kisco home
OF Gideon L. Boissevain, a member OF the
banking firm Of Kean, Van Cortlandt 4 Co.,
80 Pine street. The jewels and about $50
in money were stolen from the bedrooms
of Mr.. and Mrs. Boissevain on the night OF
October II.
Anderson returned to ~ station in about
| III nOuT dIu vi IL uCtCNtiNo a h1afN-
kerchief soiled with fresh earth and in
which were the Jewels. For three weeks
Anderson had been telling more and more
Of the robbery to Cosgrove under the I'M
precision that the detective was his friend
and would help him to dispose Of the
~jewelry. He was thunderstruck when Cos
grove told him later that he was under
arrest. For a long time he refused TO believe
that Cosgrove had merely been worming his
secret from him..
why a man who would do that cried
Anderson, when he saw that he had been
trapped, should nave his soul roasted
In hell!'
1t was on the morning Of October IL, or
four days after Anderson had left, that
Mr.. and Mrs. Boissevain learned that while
they had slept some one had entered each
Of their bedrooms and had taken from
dressing tables and drawers jewelry valued
at $40, 900 and some money, without having
alarmed any one. The work seemed to
be that of a practised second story man.
and there was no suspicion that any one
acquainted with the house had taken the
jewels until later in the day. Then Mr..
Boissevain discovered that a secret door
on the first floor had also been opened
and from the closet behind this door a
small quantity Of wine and cigars had been
taken. The door can be opened only by
pressing a spring that il hidden, and M
none but the household knows the posi-
ton Of the door and spring it was decided
to examine the servants.
A few days later A. l.. Drummond, ex-
chief Of the United States Secret Service,
was engaged to run down the thief and
he assigned Cosgrove to the case. h
stolen property listed by the detective Is
as follows:
One Alexandrine scarf pin surrounded by
fifteen diamonds, seven other scarf pins OF
pearls. sapphires. small diamonds and cats
eye; two gold watches. one OF which bears an
inscription, On board SIS. Majestic, October 4,
1903; a gold cigarette holder. a gold cigar
cutter. two gold chains and a gold penknife,
seven sets of pearl studs, two pairs OF gold
and pearl cum links, a snake ring made OF
thirty diamonds and rubies. one gold 100
franc piece. a lady's watch with jewelled case.
a number of diamond rings and other je wells.
Cosgrove first got to work on the servants
still in the house. but all seemed to be quite
innocent. Then for four or five days Cos
grove and a number of assistants watched
a furnished room house al 1888 West Thirty
sixth street, Manhattan, where Anderson,
the only other man that could have known
Of the secret wine closet, had engaged a
room the day he left Mount Kisco. Ander-
son, however, had not stayed long in the
Thirty-sixth street house, but had gone
to Trenton, the detective learned, shortly
after the robbery. Cosgrove was abou
to follow him when the servant bobeed
I'D again in Manhattan to seek for work
here. The detective was informed by an
agent for an employment bureau that q
man named Joseph Anderson had called
there looking for work.
The next day Anderson called up Mr..
Boissevain on the telephone to say that
he couldn't get another Job without a recon-
mendation from the banker. Mr.. Boisse-
vain made an appointment with Anderson
to have the servant call at the banking
house in Pine street on October 20 to get
the recommendation Anderson kept the
appointment and was met by the banke
and Detective Cosgrove.
Anderson submitted to the mild third
degree" which the other servants had re-
ceived. hut nothing Of moment was OBJ
tanned from him. He handed over to Cos
grove some earlier references he had with
him and upon investigation some OF these
were found to be false. During his talk
with the detective in Mr.. Boissevain's Office
the servant used some OF the slang OF the
underworld, such as stir" for prison and
other terms. When he left the Office Cos
grove went with him.
From that hour until Anderson was taken
to Mount Kisco Yesterday to await the
action Of the Grand Jury the detective and
the servant rave been constant compan-
ions. Cosgrove, a brig jovisl man OF %.
rapidly got on good terms with Anderson
and first fattered the servant by telling
him he needed his help to get the thief.
There certainly must have been some SER
want in the hous was a crook, sug-
gested the detective. Couldn't Anderson
think Of one likely to take the jewels?
Anderson bit. Come to think OF IL, he did
remember a man mp there who was capable
If rohbing the house. He thought II no
went m to Mount kisco and saw this man
he could doubtless worm something out Of
him Cosgrove said he would fke 10 GO
along, hut first he began TO intimate 10