The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-16
STARTLING FIND
 OF LOST SILVER Nearly Six Hundred Pieces Be longing to Prominent Hotels, Clubs and Cafes in Gar.
 bage Mems Homes.
$500 WORTH RECOVERED
Hungarians and Poles in Employ of Farnham Farms Claim the Silver Found in Their Houses Was
 Picked Up In Garbage.

losses of silverware from prominent hotels. restaurants and clubs of this city was unearthed Monday afternoon through the visit of Detectives Don nelly and McAvoy to junk shop of seemingly little significance. Directly through the visit the detectives recov- cred sixty pieces of silverware ranging from little forks 10 important and val uable pieces, and indirectly nearly six hundred pieces were recovered yester- day and still more which are unmark- ed and therefore has not been taken by the police were brought to light. A total of silverware from all over the central portion of the city was finally gathered that Is worth probably all of $500 and the most of this was In the possession of Ave Polish and Hun garian families, the heads of which are employed in taking care of gar bage on the Farnham estate in Vest vile.
 Detectives Henry Donrelly and John McAvoy were going the rounds of the junk shops looking for second hand goods that might have been stolen and disposed of to those dea'- CTS and when they came to this one place they were surprised to find this array of silverwarc. They immediate ly asked the junk man where he had obtained the goods and he stated that he got them from a rag dealer. Tho rag dealer was found yesterday and he revealed the fact that his source was the workers at the Farnham farm. The man who was first implicated Is Hungarian whose especial labor is the working over of tho garbage after 1t is dumped at the farm. After a short attempt to talk with him yes terday morning the detectives went to the mans house with him and he showed them collection that would make the stock for fair sized silver store. From this man the detectives took between 75 and 100 pieces and there were as many more that had no mark whatever on them 10 show to whom they belonged and were there fore not taken yesterday. This man then told that several others on the farm were also collecting the silver and the detectives visited four other homes where they got the rest Of tho ware which was recovered and found some three hundred pieces which were not taken at all because unmarked Altogether there were nearly six hun dred pieces recovered. most Of which has tho owners name stamped on them
 The owners are sll prominent loca' establishments. Tn the lot obtained from the junk man there were pieces belonging to the Cafe Heublein and tC l Childs restaurant while in the entire list there was found forty-two pieces two hundred and three 10 Heubleins ltwenty-four to Dillon at fhs Union station. twelve to tho Union League club. eighteen to the Hof Brau. twenty to Moseley of the New Haven house and 8 few pieces each belonging tc
 
 Hotel Garde, Tontine, Grace hospital Davenport hotel, Huylers. Caterer l Fleming. Dwight hall. Quinnlpiact club. University club and old Hoidel. berg.
 Much of the silverware is plated but there is in the lot a number oi | pieces which are of solid silver Muct of this is in the unidentified lot ant includes the following pieces, the on. cravings on which are not sufficient clues to determine the owners
 Sllverspoon with inscription A. F. S, s. No. i, Hos. Fair 'a9. Silver forl with initial s.; spoon with NJ; ladle J. B. w.; fork, C.. table spoon, A. w, another with P; teaspoon with l. C. another V. S.; fork marked Tiffany l spoons with w. l.. D.: Stimets ant Walter: tablespoon. Fl. C.; fork McC. fork. Pierce; spoon, Katie s.; spoon, with D.. NJ. and E.; butter knife, witt B.; silver spoon, C, Y. w.; fork, F. | spoon. II. B.; ia blespoon with engrav ing F. W. Lewis, Dec. 3. 1854: pear handled fruit knife; fruit spoon Tiff fany. and butter knife. w.
 Among the unidentified article, there are sixty-seven tea spoons. twen ty-three oyster forks, ten table forks five tablespoons. three butter knives two fruit knives, three sugar shells, { table knife and q silver tooth pick.
 The Polanders and Hunesrtans wer, not very communlcat tive, being unshl to talk except through interpreters They asserted that the articles wer found by them in the garbage whicl was dumped on the farm Mir. Earn ham, who gave the detectives ever, assistance in their work on his ests te told them that he had issued order that whenever things were found il | the garbage he was to be notified an, they should be turned over 10 him f, find the owners The people said the, 1 had found them and kept them It | known, however, in the ease of two q least that they have not been in tn 1 business for q year and half ant | the amount collected seems rathe large for such method of securing them. No arrests have been made a yet, however, as the detectives decide, to lay the matter before the city at torney for decision as to what steps t pursue in the case beyond the restor ing of the articles lost.
 A peculiar phase of the ease consist in the fact that the men who work ol the collection of the garbage have tn