The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-28
MRS COLES JEWELS
 SAD LOOKING SIGHT
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 then took the bills and gave me $3a out of his till, saying that the bills from the bag might be marked. Up to this time there was nothing else re- moved from the bag went to work that day. and when I came home in the evening Uncle Oelsman asked me if had returned the Jewels. I in- formed him that Lebenthal had them. The next day an inspector of the com pany asked me if I had found a. bag of jewels. told him that I. had not. theE3 went to Lebenthal and said that the inspector had asked me about the jewels. asked Lebenthal to re- turn them to me but he refused. He said not to be in a hurry as he would protect me. and would have a lawyer defend him if necessary If a detec- tive came to the place he would sue him afterwards if he could get no evil dence. and if the newspapers printed his name he would sue them also. About two days after this incident Detective Axel Johnson of the Eagle National Detective Agency. approached me and asked if he knew anything about the 1 lost jewelry.
 plain. that the detectives were aft CT me. He tcld me to go away and not 1 bother him., as I had 10 witnesses to I testify that I had been seen to give
 the bag of jewels to him. I then wrote l to my mother in New York to come 1 to this city. as I wanted her to talk to Lebenthal as she is his sister. We | both went to Lebenthal on the even-
 ing that she came here. He said he
 would not talk to anyone else about | the subject but me. He said he was
 willing to talk to her on any other l subject She could not do anything
 with him. went to him the next day and he said that he would return the bag any evening that I called for it. l About three evenings later called at
 his house on Winter street and we
 both went to the store. Going in he 1 locked the door and placed a paper l over the window of the back room so that no one could look in. He then took a small white package out of his
 pocket. The package was made of a | handkerchief and a sleeve of a shirt
 waist. It was not the package found
 the jewels in. I looked at the jewels
 in the store and saw that the stones
 had been taken out. I told him about | it, but he did not answer. 1 tried to place the stones. which he had in a small package in their places in the l jewels but they did not fit. told him could not return them in that condi- tion.
 i "On leaving the store and going with | him up Newfield avenue he told me not | to bother with him any more. Asked | him about the size of the stones. but l he said they were the same as I had
 given him in the woolen bag, which he
 said he had burned. Later in the l
 Brooklyn who is a jeweler. but he 1 could not fix the jewelry up and in-
 formed me that the stones which I 1 had, in the package were glass. Com | entha1 telling him that I was in Brook lyn with the jewels and was informed 1 that the stones were fakes. He said | that he did not know anything about
 it. I then went home and within half l an hour his young son. who is about l seven years old came to me and said
 his father desired to speak with me.
 I went to the store. Lebenthal said
 that he did not know how the stones
 were changed but that his wife prob
 ably might have done it. He advised
 me to forget the matter for a time at
 least, for within that time his wife
 might get them back or he might make | good for them-
 "I again went to my home on Gen.
 tral Avenue, and was about to retire when Mrs. Lebentha1 called saying | that she wanted to speak with me
 We both went to my room. She tried bought them, pretending that she wanted to buy them from me. I told
 her that I had found them. I ask
 ed her where the real stones were, and
 she said that they were buried, but | did not say where. She told me to
 keep away from her husband as I was breaking his heart, or she would break my head. I informed her that the
 affair was breaking my heart the more The morning after going to | Brooklyn I was informed that I had
 lost my job with the trolley company
 for laying off. I then went to the | home of my mother. I remained there | till Labor Day coming to this city on Fthat day with my mother. We went 1 to the Lebenthals on the Wednesday l following, Lebenthal informing me ] that I could do as wished in the mat
 ter.
 .sThe next day I went with Uncle l oelsnan to Attorney Jacob B. Klein