Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

step in crime is interesting. In some way
he made the acquaintance of a handsome
young woman, the widow of a police in
spector. who was employed at a leading
jewelers. shop His imagination was fired
| by the jewelry and he persuaded the
Young woman to procure the Key OF the
shop for him, and one night while she
kept watch. using her knowledge of po-
lice habits and methods 20 assist him. he
entered the shop and carried away nearly
! s2oGvO worth of jewelry.
Woman Betrayed Him.
| Although mere boy. he did not make
the mistake of trying to dispose of his loot
| in one lot. but went up TO London and sold
piece here and piece there until all
! was realized, Strangely enough. the first
/ prison sentence was for his first burglary.
| He gave the young woman valuable
! diamond ring. and a year later it was
| recognized. and the woman to save her
self, "shopped him TO the police and he
was sentenced 10 seven years penal serv-
! itude
| In the meantime, however. he had car
| ried out many other thefts, and his mar
velous ingenuity is shown by the way in
! which he escaped detection. He made t
I 4 rule to cultivate the friendship of po-
/ lcemen and detectives and to use them
| 70 provide an alibi in case of need. Thus
! Its first visit after a burglary was always
20 the police station with which his
friends were connected and often he car
ried with him the proceeds of his raids.
one of these forays he described with
good deal of quiet enjoyment at his home
at Tottenham the other day. He heard
of a jeWeler who kept a cash box with a
| large sum Of money in a safe in his bed
ROOM and after carefully studying the
| house he waited until he saw the man and
| his family leave for an evening visit. He
! then gained admission to an empty house
"A few doors away, climbed out on the
roof and ran along the cutters. concealed
! by the high coping. until he reached the
| roof over the bedroom where the money
| was He then cut q hole in the roof and
in the ceiling lowered himself through it.
| and secured the cash box containing $3.50
| He returned the way that he had come.
but as he was leaving the empty house
| he noticed that a shred of cloth was torn
| from his coat, and he reasoned correctly
that 1t had been left attached to the
! broken laths where he had cut the hole
/ through the ceiling.
Duped the Detective.
Instead of risking capture by returning
! to remove this piece of evidence against
him he slowed the money securely in his
clothing and hurried round to the near
est police station. where he met the sta
! ton detective whose duty IT would be to
Investigate the crime. He invited the man
! him to another part of the town on an in
vestigation he was making. On the way
| he drew the detectives attention to his
coat. telling him that 1t was torn on a
nail in his room.
| When he LETT the detective he hurried
| 10 his ROOM drove a nail into a position
10 correspond with the story he had told
the detective and arranged few threads
Of cloth carefully on the end of 1t. but
not enough to identify the pattern. Then
he burned the coat in the fire and dressed
! himself in two suits of underwear and an
| extra waistcoat. An hour so later his
friend the detective came hurrying to see
| him.
Where is that torn coat of yours" he
, asked.
Il just gave it away to a beggar after
! | left YOU" Williams replied
The detective swore and then Williams
drew his attention to the nail. The de-
/ tective eagerly collected the threads stick
ing TO ii and compared them with piece
of cloth he took from his pocket.
There has been burglary up the
| street." he said. land this cloth came
from the burglars coat. 1t looks uncom-
monty like your coat"