The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-04-09
RETRlBUTION IN THE
SHAPE OF AN
Out and Out Thief Has
0vertaken
The Cincinnati 30 S s,
Wife's Rings Stolen
From a New York
Hotel.

New York. April 7.-,George b. Cox
the Republican boss of Cincinnati, wa'
here two weeks ago and was robbed
He lost three rings belonging to his
wife and valued so Cox said, at $4,000
Mr.. Cox and his wife stopped while
here at the Hotel Knickerbocker. The
Ohio boss made great fuss at the
hotel, saying that the stuff had been
and his wife we're asleep. The Cox =
taken from his apartments while he
arrived here in the afternoon and spent
seevral hours at the Knickerbocker.
That night they went 10 the Hippo
drome. Boss Cox owns the greater
share Of that house, having his Gin.
cInnat friend Max Anderson, and the
shuberts run II. The day following
the Coxs spent In seeing the sights
and they did not return to their hotel
until about 10:30 o'clock that night
Boss Cox wasn't feeling well, so he
afterward told the hotel people, ana
took bath. He also ordered some
thing to fix up his stomach from the
bar down stairs. A bellboy brought
the stun to the Cox apartments con.
sisting of two r"Dms and a bath on
the ninth floor, Fortysecond street
side. The belboy SO the hotel people
said tonight was not admitted to the
room. but that Mrs. Cox called her hus.
band. who came to the door and took
n tray from the boy. The next morn.
ing Cox showed up at the hotel office
and said he had been robbed. He
said that three rings belonging to his
wife had been taken from the room:
The rings, he said. were worth $4,000
Cox said that the thieves overlooked
a diamond necklace ana $1,000 In cash.
The chamois bag was there, but the
three rings were gone. Cox said that
his wife had handed him ae rings for
safe keeping and that he had placed |
them and the bag in the hip pocket OF
his trousers, removing them when he |
went TO bed. The hotel people imme. |
diately began an investigation. They |
learned from Mrs. Cox a story that |
differed from that told by her hus.
band. She said that all OF the jewelry |
and $1,000 In cash had been stuffed be.
tween the two mattresses on the bed
She was OF the opinion that sneak
thief was hiding under the bed when
they entered the room. The hotel peo-
pie say this was Impossible as they
calculated on Just such happenings
when they furnished the hotel. That
is, they had the beds built so low that
II is impossible for even n small boy
TO crawl under them. The hotel peo.
pie are inclined 20 believe that Boss
Cox rubbed too closely 20 some slick
crook. who removed the rings from
his hip pocket. The fact that the
bag was not taken. doesn't
surprise the hotel people or the Cen,
traf Office men detailed 10 the case. II
Is n frequent stunt with our local
crooks 10 kindly replace a pocketbook
In a mans pocket after extracting the
This case was reported 90
police Headquarters and Inspector Nc.
Laughlln detailed several sleuths to
work on the case. So far they have
nnearthed no clue. Just how a sneak
thief could have gained entrance TO }
the room is mystery. The windows
On the Forty-second street side are At.
ed with double locks and there Is no )
edge or fire escape on the outside by {
which crook might crawl to the I
window a