The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
WOMANROBSGOV .BROWNSSON
ATLANTA LAWYER LOSES $4,000
WORTH OF STICKPINS.

NJ Of Them In All, One valued at 81 .OOO
MIR. Brown Had Brought Them North
TO SHOW To His Fellow Masons at
saratosa-Police Arrest Two Women.
Julius L. Brown. a practising lawyer Of
Atlanta. Ga, who is n son of the late United
States Senator Joseph E. Brown. and who
has been attending the Knights Templsrs
convention at Saratoga, reported to the
police Of the Tenderloin station last night
that he had been robbed of sl2 900 worth Of
stickpins and $3.50 in money by a woman
he met on Broadway yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Brown, who is 90 years old. said that
he struck up an acquaintance with the girl
and she invited him to her apartments
In West Thirty-seventh street After leav-
ing there he went down to Simpsons pawn
shop in the Bowery. He always made it
a point to drop in at Simpsons when he was
in New York. he said, because he was often
ableto find some unusual specimens Of stick
pins there. To collect s~tickpins is his
hobby. He has a collection OF them which
has cost him many thousands of dollars.
He had brought twenty-five pins with him
to show his friends at the convention.
These pins were in a leather wallet which
he had fastened in his inside waistcoat
pocket.
He didn't see any pins at Simpsons
that struck his fancy. blu he did buy .
camera. He left the pawnshop at 4 O'Clock
In the afternoon, not yet realizing that he
had been robbed. He stopped in at a
Photographic supply store on Broadway,
and when he felt for one wallet to pay
for some purchases it was gone. He had
paid for the camera with some loose change.
This wallet contained the $3.50. IL didn't
occur to Mr.. Brown then that he had been
robbed. He didn't even think Of feeling
for the wallet which contained the stick
pins. but when he got over to the Gilsey
House and had oonfided his loss Of money
to that clerk that wise man suggested that
it would be we'll for Mr.. Brown to take an
inventory Of his other belongings. Then il
was that the loss of the S12. 900 worth Of
stickpins was discovered. The clerk sug-
gested that the best thing to do was to
go directly to the Tenderloin station.
MFR. Brown, whose father was Governor
OF Georgia in the days Of the Confederacy
and was elected United States Senator in
1880. was at one time an Assistant United
States Attorney. He was for many years
president Of the Georgia Mining. Manu-
featuring and Investment Company. He
is now a Master Of Chancery in the United
States Circuit Court. He is a thirty-seoond
degree Mason and past commander OF
the Knights Templars Of Georgia. He is
also past grand master r. q S. NJ. Grand
Council Of Georgia.
He furnished the police with a list Of what
stickpins he had lost. One cats eye pin he
valued at 81. 600. while another pin set with a
large emerald and surrounded by diamonds
was worth, he says. si,25O. He also de-
scribed a 85 carat diamond as worth 81. 500
and a black pearl pin as worth $3.50. Mr..
Brown said that STAIRS and Tiffany's ex-
perts had told him that his collection Of
pins was one of the finest in the country.
As soon as he reported the case Detec-
tives White and Bamman went direct TO
the house in Thirty-seventh street and
arrested Lottie Brown, a negress. and
frankie Goodwin. a white girl. The latter
had si7z in cash. The bills were Of practi-
cally the same denomination that Mr..
Brown said his roll was made up of. No
trace Of the stickpins was found. The two
women denied any knowledge OF the pins.
but they were locked up as suspicious
persons. Mr.. Brown said he would stay
in town for some time to see IL the police
can recover his jewelry. He is at the
Gilsey House.