New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05
FIND HEINZE NECKLACE
ARREST GREEK IN OMAHA.
Er-EmpIoge Of Hotel Knicker-
booker Found II IN Gutter.


Omaha March Awhile trying to sell TO Al
bert Edholm. an Omaha teweller. necklace
which local Jewellers say is worth more than
$4,000 John D. Sclavinitis. a Greek. who for
/ convenience calls himself Saws. was arrested
here to-day The necklace consists Of single
string of sixty. three pearls. carefully matched
| and fastened with a clasp set with diamond OF
unusual size Information from New York is
that It is thought to be one lost by Mrs. Otto
e. Heinze or the night Of November 26 last.
SAWS entered the jewelry store this afternoon
and presented a single pearl. which he offered
to sell Assuring himself Of its genuineness'
/ Mr. Edholr7 gave him valuation of $50 or $780,
whereupon the Greek offered to sell him dozen
ut $40 each. but said friend had them BY a
r1lse the jeweller succeeded in informing the po-
lice. and two detectives were sent to the store.
where the man was arrested In his possession
was found huge .3s-caIibre revolver. but he
made no resistance. At the station search
revealed the entire necklace, which he was
carving in his pocket. 1t was found that the
gem offered for sale was the smallest OF the
sixtv-+F1ree Its value Mr. Edholn estimated
at 5000 or 5000, while the largest in the string
would run into thousands.
The nolice had received from the New York
/ Police Department a description Of the neck
lace. which was said to have disappeared from
the Krickerbocker Hotel in that city on Novem-
Der % last.
/ SAYS WAS KNICKERBOCKER EMPLOTE-
! SAWS says he employed by the Knicker-
booker Hotel for thirteen months as sidewalk
man - TIs was sweeping refuse from the walk
into the gutter, and he brushed 1t over the
curb he saw the necklace lying in the gut
ter with some rubbish. He picked up the string
Of Jewels, examined it and then put it into his
/ pocket He SAYS several persons witnessed his
action.
| After going to his room that night he ex-
/ amined the pearls more closely and discovered
! a valuable diamond set in the small clasp. He
/ kept the necklace in his trunk after that little
! dreaming. he declares. its rea! worth He ex-
amined show windows for similar necklaces,
/ bopinr 70 thereby get an idea OF the value OF
! the Jewels. but found they ranged from % cents
/ 10 thousands OF dollars He says # is the Gus
tom in his country for the finder Of valuables 70
| receive one-third of their worth, and he thought
the owner would mako known his or her loss If
| the necklace was valuable. Not learning of any
loss OF valuable pearls, he decided the find was
/ OF comparatively small consequence
! Saws explains having revolver by saying he
! was advised to arm himself when he went West.
! Ha secured employment through Michael Man
/ danIs. King OF the Greeks" in South Omaha
/ and this city. who is now acting for the Greeks
/ who were recently involved in the South Omaha
/ riots.
/ Resides the necklace and revolver the police
took from SAWS a valuable watch and chain.
+ two purses. a memoranda book. a pronouncing
/ dictionary and SCI 81 in money. Marks in the
dictionary indicate that he lived at No, $50 or
J 40 7o5 Sixth avenue New York His English
/ is considered good for man being in this
/ country only sixteen months. With a view to
getting information tho police sent 70 Council
/ Bluffs for his belongings, which expected to
/ develop further information.
/ The police at Headquarters here had received
no official word last evening OF the arrest OF the
I Creek calling himself SAWS. at Omaha but they
were inclined to think that the necklace is that
/ lost by Mrs Otto G. Heinze. In near the Hotel
/ Knickcrbocker on the night of November 26 last
The same opinion prevailed at the Hotel Knick-
erbocker.
THIS necklace consisted Of sixty-three matched
pearls with a gold, diamond studded clasp. The
value Of the necklace mas been variously put at
from $1,000 to $4,000. Mrs. Heinze missed II
after she and her husband had spent some time
in the grill room Of the Knickerbocker. and had
left the hotel in carriage. She thought she
lost IT in the grill ROOM but the hotel manage
1nent could not find it there. and they thought
she must have lost It on the sidewalk when she
walked out 10 her carriage.
The house detective. Harry Blades. who was
one Of the first TO hear of the loss at the time,
said last night that he thought the dispatch,
with the statement Of the prisoner that he
swept up the necklace in his rubbish. indicated
that the hotels theory that the necklace
lost on the sidewalk correct. if II should
appear that the Jewels described are Mrs.
Heinzes.
Mr.. Heinze reported the loss OF the necklace on
the day after Its disappearance to the police and
to the hotel. According to the police records he
said the necklace worth $4,000 But at
the Knickerbocker il was said last night that
MIR. Heinze told the hotel authorities. in report
ing the loss first. that the necklace was worth
$4,000 and later. that its value was nearer
$4,000 He first offered $500 reward for it's
return. later $1,000. Rumor gave the value of
the jewels as high as $4,000. Detective Miley
worked on the case for the Headquarters police,
but discovered nothing
The Hotel Knickerbocker employs several
sweepers who work outside the building, and
they were questioned at the time of the loss. but
yere unable to tell anything about the necklace.
Blades, the house detective, said last night
that none of these sweepers was named Saws
or Sclavntis
At the home OF otto c. Henze No. II East
72d street. II was said last evening that Mr. and
Mrs Heinze were out and would not be home
until late and no IN the household had heard
about the finding Of the necklace at Omaha.
When otto c. Heinzs returned home, early
this morning he said that he had heard from
the police of the discovery of the necklace in
Omaha and he was much inclined to believe II
was the one his wife had lost He said he, his
wife and his brother, T. Augustus Heinze, were
KuickerbOcIrer the night Of the loss, but