The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-18
SOME CLASS TO JOE
AS SNEAK THIEF
Youth Gets $500 Worth of Loot IN
BOOMING Houses-In Tears, Con-
fesGss To Police

As sneak THE. l1yearold Joseph
Schultz, OF No. 1882 Dubois ST. Is "A
pronounced success he "sneaked
5000 worth OF small articles OF lewelry
from rOoming houses. al noon
Thursday, and got away safely
But as a hardened crook. Joseph ~
a dismal failure tie was caught
while trying TO dispose OF his plumber
in pawnshop, which is failure No
j, but worst OF all, he soboed ani
cried like child when woman
started weeping over "A keepsake he
had stolen. Then he confessed every
thing
Loaded down with bracelets. watch
es. razors. rings. pins. cuff links. and
variety OF other plumber. Joseph
told Detectives kunkel. McCarty and
Clare. when they arrested him in a
pawnsh0ps that he had purchased the
jewelry from a man. for Sic. soon
after he arrived al the station room
ers from No. n Montcalm-st. easi
and No so COlumbia.st. east. started
10 flock 10 the station 10 report
mysterious thefts OF their jewelry
.between II ami IL O'Clock Thursday
Joseph had the jeWclrv
Miss Edith Chase, No 80 Columbic-
st. east. identified silver mesh hand
bag. Then Miss Elizabeth Kerr No
II Montcalm-st east, identified
watch. bracelet and TWO rings stolen
from her room. Mrs r. Hewitt az
the same address. found Joseph with
her s55 watch. that she had purchased
Thursday morning for a Christmas
present Burt Riley identified a watch
and some other property
sJCseph Was seated I'm the rear room
OF the detective bureau. his plumber
on a table nearby. and the victims II
mis- thefts surrounding him. Mrs Anna
b. Johnson. a rOomer In The Mont
calm-st house. identified TWO rings
stolen from her room.
Have you got my bracelet set with
arnethysts and chip diamonds o? she
asked Joseph
"No maam.' he replied.
-''Honest. haven't you?' she asked
beseechingly Big tears were well
ing up in her eyes Il wouldn't lose
that bracelet for anything she starr
ed 10 sob. IT was a present from
my dear. dead husband
Joseph's mouth turned down ar the
corners. and wiping his coat sleeve
over his face. he burst into tears.
Then some OF the other women com
menced to cry.
Joseph slowly rolled mp the sleeve
OF his coat. There was the missing
bracelet on his arm.
'T took EN- myself sobbed
Joseph. 4 didn't buy EN- stole
'em. | sneaked in at noon an COPIED
enf. all OF them things"
Shortly afterward. Charles L Sc
bert.-of -No---50 -HOward-st walked in
and identified the clothing and shoes
that Joseph wore, as stolen from his
room.
Schultz has already served a term
in the industrial school for larceny.
Detectives Holland and Graus OF
Canhe1d station. later decided that
schultz had burglarized Mrs. Peter
McHuehs rooming house. No 579
Cass-ave.. last Saturday evening
Schultz confessed that he had done
the sob. He said that he would help
them recover the plumber. and led
them TO his temporary room at No
POI Michigan-ave. the rooming house
of Mrs. s Wilson. He had given
Mrs Wilson a ruby brooch and a dia- !
mond pin stolen from Miss O. Weiss !
a roomer in Mrs. McHugh 5 house. TIE |
brooch was present from Miss !
Weiss mother now dead. and she (
held il priceless. These We're recov- 1
cred from Mrs Wilson, but Schultz .
said that he had given the rest away
10 strange men. No amount OF ques-
tioning would lead him 10 tell the hid
ing place.
Schultz was met on the stairway Of /
the Cass-ave house by Miss McHugh
He walked past her. and out into the
street. A few minutes later, the rob
berry was discovered.
Schultz had taken y manicure and
toilet set from the room OF Jesse
Pierce. who had just purchased it as
present for his sweetheart
Miss Elizabeth Stanley's room was
searched. and her graduation pin from
the Farrand Training school. and
small travellers clock, were stolen.
Mrs. Wilson. who was presented
with the brooch and pin by schultz
told that she had seen Schultz with
the manicure set, and that be said
he was going 10 give Il 20 "a girl on
the east side Schultz won't tell who
his sweetheart ia.
The police now believe that he has
done many other Jobs. which will be
learned of since the news OF his ar
rest is nublic