Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-27
THE YES MADE A
RICH HAUL De RINGS
MRS. BoYcE AND MRS. STEVENS
/ EFT THEIR DIAMONDS in THE
ROOM OF HOTEL DURING RI.
cEPTioN AND SNEAK THIEF
GOT THEM.


While attending q reception given
by Mrs. w ID, Boyee for her daughter
in Chicago, Mrs. r. n, Stevens Of this
city lost a diamond ring and a locket
and Mrs. Boyce and her daughter lost
several thousand dollars worth of jew
els. Mrs. Boyce is the wife of w. D..
Boyce, formerly a resident Of this
state, where he was engaged in the
newspaper business, and now the mill
nonaire publisher of the Chicago
Blade. Mrs Stevens and Mrs. Boyce
are friends Of long standing and Mr.
and Mrs. Stevens were visiting in Chi
cago when the robbery occurred. The.
Chicago Tribune says Of the robbery
During a coming out reception Civ
en- at the Virginia hotel yesterday aft
ternoon by Mrs. w. d. Boycet for her,
daughter, Miss sydney Boyce, a thief
entered the familyf's apartments and.
stole about $4,000 worth of iewelry,
principal lily rings.
Mr., Boyce suspects housemaid,
and the, police are directing their eff
forts toward locating her. George w.
Reynolds, manager OF the hotel. last
night could not, with certainty, give
the suspected woman's name, and the
address she gave on taking the place
proved to he incorrect.
There are two doors leading into
the family's suite OF rooms, No. SO.
one being the main entrance and the
other leading through a clothes closet
into the hallway of the apartment.
The lock on this latter door was
found to be broken on Thursday and
some little ii me safts5rS ward Mrs. Boyee
saw the maid working with it. Mrs
Boyce and the maid tried to fix it,
but we're unable and reported the
break to the management It was not
repaired and the Boyce family put q
hat box against 1t from the inside.
When the reception began the maid
was assigned to guard the sapa rtment.
Mrs. Boyce and her daughter remained
i downstairs in the parlors, where the
reception was held, until s: is. The
maid quit her work at 5 p. ID. and has
/ not been seen since.
The robbery was discovered inmed
/ lately when Mrs. 'Boyce entered the
4 rooms Then it was found, as Mr.
4 Boyce laughingly remarked that tlle
a thief drew the line at clearing house
checks. MY wife had about SO
!. worth of them in her pocketbook, bu
I, these were left severely alone. Z
Mrs. Boyce. their daughters, tn
Misses Sydney and Happy Boyee;; Mr.
I. r. N Stevens Of Bismarck, n. D., Wit
or that states asst. attorney genera!
!, Miss Jennie Day Proudfoot Of Men
phis, Tenn, a schoolmate of Miss Sy6
ney, special house guests, suffere
a Losses. They all wore gloves for til
reception, and, conseau ently, the DO.
a. LES duu tllSit p Sts,
rings in the apartments Some mol
ey also was taken.
One Of the stolen rings, an amethys
surrounded by forty pearls, was pi
chased in Europe years ago by AZ
Boyce and was presented to his vii
on one Of her birth days.
: Another is q dark sapphire set wit
diamonds and pearls, valued at $50
. Miss sydney Boyce received this upo
Z her graduation from school.
: Miss Happy Boyce reported thes
y losses one diamond narq'iise rim
y one princess ring, set q with Il tiars
pearls, one turquoise and diamoI
ring, two rnbies surrounded with d
s monds, one small turquoise and d.
4 mond ring, one diamond solitaire al
s. one pearl ring.
Is Mrs Stevens lost q solitaire q
mond and q diamond locket