The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-18
Cole Jewels Recovered Lebenthal and Gordon
 Make Full Confessions
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of 10 per cent. of all the jewels. I put the stick pin in a drawer where always keep my deeds When I deliv- cred the jewels to Gordon he had a list from a newspaper. and checked off all the jewels. one by one. Every item was checked. My wife did not know that I had anything to do with the jewels, in any shape or form"
 Attorney Henry Greenstein, who has been the counsel for the Lebenthals, said to-day: After the conv ction of the Iebenthals, Mrs. Lebenthals family came to me about what should be done. They employed detectives from the Eagle Dtective agency. of which Axel Johnson Is the head. Johnson with the aid of one of his assistants, named Jack Connors, induced Sheriff Hawiey to allow Connors to be placed in the North avenue Jail with Gordon. The Sheriff allowed the detective to occupy the next cell to Gordon, and work with him every day. Both talk ed over the matterfof finding the few els each day. From what statements Gordon did make 1t began to look as if Lebenthals were entirely innocent. The detective then came to me, and told me what he knew. He said from what evidence Gordon had given him, mat 1t was also his belief that Leben- thai was innocent I then went to At torney J. B. Klein and told him that the time was now ripe to get a true story of the affair from Gordon. Klein
 
 latter stuck to his story. Last Sun day Klein went to Gordon again. This was at seven o'clock in the morning. He was closeted with Gordon and Le- benthal till o'clock that evening. During the talk Gordon confessed to Klein as to where some of the pewels were That day a bracelet contain ing eleven diamonds and one other diamond was returned to Klein.
 That day Klein got the information
  that Gordon had given him was. The 1e~ei was found in the money drawer or his store When the jewel was round Klein learned from Detective meanest crooks that he had ever run across The detective said that Cor aon knew all the meanest crooks in New York A new departure was then knew that Gordon wanted to send some letters to outsiders, but did not want to let the jail officials get hold or them The detective told him that. last day. he would mail the letters for him. Gordon told him no. that he had made arrangements with another pris- oner. naming the man. to take the let communicated this evidence to the jail authorities who succeeded in taking two letters from the prisoner. O1e letter was addressed to LebenthaPs 1A1AAGAs hlAA1 GlAys anu Nnc oLneT LO a noted crook called Sponge in New York.
 The detective conceived the idea that Sponge might know something about the other jeweis- Klein went to Gordon and asked him where he could get the other jewels. Gordon denied any knowledge of their whereabouts.
 You gave them to SponEe.'4 said Klein
 Gordon went I'D in the air about this remark. and wanted to know how they found out about Sponge Sponge was locked up in New York. States Attorney Judson wrote a letter for Axel Johnson to give to Inspector McCaffery In the big city. asking that the NewsYork police help in running down .Sponxn.' When Johnson arriv- cd in New York. McCafrery gave him two men. They found Sponge in Webers pool room on Broadway. Sponge was told that he was wanted to give what information he knew. Sponge replied. well if you want me you can lock me up. I'll be out in less than two hours.' The attempt to gain any knowledge from Sponge was fruitless. but it only served to show that Gordon was one of the meanest of crooks ever tried in this country"