The San Francisco call., 1909-03-11

was arrested, and is now held at the
police believe that he knows much
sabout the theft of Miss Jennie Crock
er's $4,000 pearl necklace. which. the
heiress lost during the mardi gras
ball February g.
After BONNER had been arrested by
Detectives Charles Taylor and Ar
thur McPhee, the two upper Office
men went to his room at 9I Pearl
street-a suggestive place of resi-
dence under the circumstances-and
there found quantity of valuable
loot which the young hotel employe
had pilfered from guests at the hotel
and the hotel itself BONNER is %
years OF age, is said TO be the scion
OF good family in Germany, and is
called count"
Jewels Among His Loot
/ In the list of property recovered
IN Bohmer's room in Pearl street
were several hundred dollars worth
of silverware taken from the hotel:
gold trinkets, watches, jcwelry and
other articles OF great value. So far
as McPhee and Taylor's search pro-
gressed last evening no pearls were
recovered
The prisoner IS not charged with
the theft of the purse, although the
police have unquestioned evidence
against him, but the department as
siduously "sweated' the fellow and
preserved an air of mystery about the
topic of their penetrating investiga-
ton, though it could not be denied
that the Croker necklace was the
incentive for the sweating.
Purse Left on Table
Mrs. w. P. Fuller was the sufferer
in the offense which Bohmer yester-
day committed With two compan-
ions Mrs. Fuller attended the func-
ton with which the ST. Francis man
agement opened the handsome tapes.
try room in the recently completed
wing of the Powell street hotel
During the afternoon Mrs Fuller and
| her friends had tea in the white and
/ gold ROOM When she left the table
Mrs. Fuller left thereon a gold purse.
valued at $3.50 and containing SIS
in gold and some silver coins and
articles of jewelry.
At the table next the one at which
Mrs. Fuller had been seated were
Mrs Campbell Shorb. Mrs. James
King Steele, Mrs. John A. Murtagh,
Miss Ethel Shorb, Miss Marie Rose
Deane and Miss Elsa Draper.
/ Mess Boy Secretes Purse
Mrs. Shorb saw a waiter, or mess
boy" approach the table, throw
napkin over the purse and pick it up
She exclaimed to her friends. Look
at that waiter taking that purse Isn't
it funny?' The other society women
at the table noticed the action OF the
servant The waiter swiftly left the
room.
He had barely slipped away when
Mrs. Fuller returned in search of her
valuables. Mrs. Shorb told her that
she had seen waiter pick up the,
purse An alarm was given and Man
| ager James Woods of the hotel was
notified
Bohmer Conceals Property
Bohmer, after his theft had slipped
up stairs and concealed his loot But
| from the description given of him BY
Mrs Shorb and the other women at
the table he was readily identified.
and when he returned to the kitchen
the cashier had him apprehended and
held until the police arrived Taylor
and McPhee made the arrest
BONNER was employed as mess
boy or "bus boy" in the hotel dining
rooms. His work was to clean up
the litter or "mess" on table at the
conclusion Of meal
He was employed at the hotel on
1.-THE night of the mardi <gras, when
Miss Crocker lost her jewels, and was
on duty in the dining room where
the Jewels were supposed to have been
lost by the heiress-
After BONNER had been arrested he
told the police where he had secreted
Mrs. FuIler's purse, and it was found
and returned to the loser during the
evening
The hotel people and the police ds-,