The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-16
WOMEN DECLARE
HEWITT is Thief
Many Victims Confront Board
ing House Performer at Po-
lice Headquarters.
SIS COAT SOLD FOR 20 CENTS
Chorus of "That's the Man
Follows First Peep at
Prisoner.
SIS COAT SOLD FOR 20 CENT:

Charles Hewitt, white man of mid
die age, we'll dressed. and most sue
cessful thief, If all the charges against
him are true, blinked wonderingly and
bowed politely In police headquarters
yesterday when. he was confronted by
several boarding house keepers, who
with one accord declared, that's tho
man. They We're irate, to say the
least, and Hewitt shifted uneasily from
one foot to the other. as he had done
in the boarding house keepers homes
He was all urbanity and had nothing
TO say against the EXPLANATIONS which
greeted his arrival among the female
chorus. He was the cynosure of all
eyes. not as a gentleman of Chester
fieldian manners, but as a most sus-
pected thief.
Mrs. c. p. Northfleet, of 4o5 North
Seventh Street; Mrs. Josephine Rob-
ineau. of II East Clay Street, and Mrs.
Sarah r. Heath. OF 215 Governor Street.
were members of the reception COM
mittee. Mr.. Hewitt was almost over
come at the cordially of his reception
and could not speak for emotion.
Many Complninnnts.
All the women, and there are others
charge him with having obtained their
| confidence and much of their prop
erty. He first obtained their conf
dence to the extent Of renting a room
| for which he did not pay. and then
while they were not looking, he OBJ
tanned their property. The methot
was entirely successful until his iden
tity and his fondness for that interest
ing game, pinochle, became known t
Detective Sergeants Wren and Wilt
shire.
~ III, 10, ,g,,r~ III Ia Ia
He was shutting the deck when the.
came in. and then he shufied out
much detected Six warrants con
front him, sufficient reason for de
lection, especially s he has been
visitor to the Jail on previous occa
sion He will get hearing in polio
7 Court on Thursday.
Some of the stolen property ha
; been recovered by the detectives. Flo
instance, they found In the posses
!, sion of Moses Brown. 123 North Sew
enteenth Street, a stolen coat value
at SIS, for which Mr. Brown had give
!, Mr.. Hewitt 90 cents. Everybody wa
: a little piqued that the coat Shout
have brought so little, and Mr.. Brow
, was more piqued when he was sun
. moned to appear as witness again:
. Hewitt. He said it was disgrace, {
I 4 TO tIdt cilSN-N 1870 -
the summons.
9 offered to show Them.
, Hewitt offered to show where a
e the property had been sold, and sa
3 thai Brown had received more. b'
= the latter denied that he had got ar
3 more from Hewitt.
8 Because Of the failure of the la
II to provide that secondhand deaie
II shall make a daily report to the p
it lice of the property they receive
1t their possession, detectives are OFT
If handicapped in recovering stolen pro
j: erty. only junk dealers are reauir
er to make such daily written reports,
er second hand dealer may refuse to d
sr clare what he has taken in, and tn
balk the detectives in their scare
unless they swear out search wa
is rant And even in that case
4 property may have been transferred
to resold.
r There is now pending in coun
to an ordinance to require second-ha
dealers and pawnbrokers to ma
es written daily reports to the police
st the latter are wishing 1t every 81
an cess, in which wish they are joi!
ng by citizens who have suffered at
err, hands of calculating thieves.