The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-19
GEMS WORTH $s5,OOO TAKEN
 ON AUTO RIDE

New York. Nov. 1s.-Frank Milhening of the firm of J. Whitening. manufac- turing jewellers of 1s5 State street. Chicago, completed yesterday a busi- made to this city. He had been stop ping at the Herald Square Hotel. and when tt came time to start for the 5i5l train TOT Pittsburg over the Pennsyl- vania. Mir. Whitening had a negro DOT ter carry his sample trunk. containing s35.c00 worth of gems. downstairs.
 He ordered the porter to put it oi. a taxicab and to walt with it until he had settled his account at the desk. The porter carried the trunk out. but he failed to wait, and presently man. accompanied by two women. stepped from the hotel. and. entering the taxi- cab. said to John Dunphy. the chauf- feur:
 .Au right. driver. Go to Houston street and the Bowery.'
 Dunphy started his car. and some minutes later pulled up there His fares alighted. telling him to wait. and a few minutes later re-ertered the car and ordered Dunphy to drive to 401 | Broadway. Again they left the cah with orders to Dunphy to wait. and
 some minutes later entered it again
 this time telling the chauffeur to go to 18th street and Willis avenue. Tn the Bronx the women left the cab and the man ordered Dunphy to drive to l6sth, street and willias avenue. | In the Herald Square Hotel. mean i time. Mir. Whitening had discovered
 that the cab on which his trunk full of jewels rested had driven away He summoned the porter. who told of hay l ing placed the trunk on the cab and admitted having left it there. The clerk and proprietor were called in an effort to learn what cab it was which had been engaged for Mir. Milhening No one could tell. and in a panic the jeweier called up police headquarters.
 nas.I the trunk was extremely valuable and begged that everything possible be done to regain it. Lieut.. Mannion consoled him with the opinion that the trunk would be recovered shortly. and | then sent Detectives Griffith and Ha- | ley to the hotel on the. run.
 They found Mir Whitening almost distracted by his loss. and were fu- lively questioning the negro porter for about the tenth time when Dunphy alarmed and entirely angry. He made for the porter demanding to know why a trunk had been put on his taxicab and in the midst of the porters expla- nations was seized by MT. Whitening, who demanded to know whether the trunk was safe and what had happened to it-
 The trunks all right" declared Dunphy Its out on the cab now Then he told the story of the ride to the Bronx. and said that at 166th street his last passenger had alighted and asked for his bill. It was sT. which punphy said the man paid and was about to step into his house when the chauffeur called him back.
 How about the trunk here?" said Dunphy "what'n do with that?'
 What trunk?" replied i.is fare. Its nothing to me what you do with it. It isn't mine''
 Then 1t was that Dunphy started back post haste for the Herald Square Hotel
 MT. Whitening and the detectives climbed into his cab and went to po- lice headquarters. where MT. Milhen- ing opened his trunk in the presence of the detectives and Lieut.. Mannion. He took from 1t tray after tray. gilt tering with gold and silver articles and precious stones. After a careful examination he told the police that the trunk was just as he had packed it. and he gave a receipt to Lieut.. Man nion for 5000 worth of jewels. Then he entered Dunphy's cab and was driven to the Pennsylvania station to catch a later train for@Pfttsbtrg. Who were the man and the women who rode around for hours with the s25.Oo0 trunk. Dunphy said he did not know