Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-23
Mrs. Samuel vogel Tells Police
Someone Took Gems from
Under Pillow.
POLICE SAY LOSS, NOT
CHI L0ROFORM, MADE MAN ILL
Cash and Diamonds Alleged to
Be Missing Are Valued
at $4,000.

Startling developments in the allege1
$4,000 jewelry robbery in the home Of
Samuel Vogel, 100 Fairmount avenue
early yesterday morning are promised
by the police within a day
Detectives have already assured
themselves that the surmise of Mr.. and
Mrs. Vogel that they were chloroforlned
by the thief is incorrect. The feeling
of nausea which Mr. Vogel felt upon
awakening is ascribed to the discovery
of the loss of his property
Mrs. Vogel declares that the $4,000
worth of jewelry secured by the thieves
were under her pillow, and that $500
which Vogel intended to use on a Eu-
ropean trip was stolen from his cloth
ing.
Sergeants Ryan. Farrell and Walzer.
who were assigned to the case by Cap
tain Carroll, of the detective bureau.
believe they are on the right trail, and
will have something very interesting to
divulge within the next twenty-four
hours.
1t is regarded as a remarkable cir
cumstance that the thieves overlooked
gold and silver plate in unlocked draw
ers worth, according to the Vogel esti-
mate, many thousands of dollars.
1t was long after midnight when Mr..
and Mrs. Vogel and their daughter
Bertha returned from the Vogel shoe
store at 2S4 Fifteenth avenue, and they
did not retire until after a. m
The jewels were in handbag which
was carried by Mrs. Vogel. During the
night she reached for her husbands
watch and it was gone. She continued
her investigation and discovered tho
handbag empty. In addition to three
younger children asleep in the house
there were two maids, Rosie and An
ME. Annie had given up her position
and was to have left Saturday. At the
request of Mrs. Vogel she remained
over Sunday and left this morning.
Mrs. Vogers own story of the circum
stances attendant on the alleged rob-
berry follows:
MY husband and retired a little
after O'clock" said Mrs. Vogel yes
terday. I'VE had planned to go to
New York and attend a theatre party
Sunday and 1 had brought my dia-
monds home with me so that | could
wear them
81 put them in little handbag and
placed it under my pillow. Then I
went to sleep. About o'clock 1 walked
up and wondered what time it was.
There is no clock in our room, so
reached over to get my husbands
watch out of his vest pocket, but the
vest was gone. Then l jumped up to
see il it was on a chair, but it wasn't.
looked under the pillow for my dia-
nonds and they were gone"
ibid you feel sick or dizzy when you
walkened?" she was asked.
mo, l didn't" Mrs Vogel replied,
but my husband was quite sick when
/ woke him and suffered later.
"Then l ran downstairs" she con-
tinued, land I and my husband
searched the house. We found every
thing all right until we got to the
l1ichen and there was my bag open
on the table. In the cellar we found
my husbands trousers and vest on
chair and a window to the yard was
unlocked and open. / think that the
man must have used something to
make us sleep soundly or we would
have awakened when he took out the
bag"
Ibid you observe any odor in the
BEDROOM"
There wasn't any peculiar odor
about" she answered, "and we didn't
find any rags or bottles that might
have had ether in them
''I was going to New York today
or / wouldn't have brought the dia-
rnonds home" she said. "The money
was saved by Mr.. yogel-he isn't real
well-for trip to the old country. He
had made some real estate deals and
the extra money he was keeping for
the trip"
The following description of the miss
ing jeweiry was furnished the police:
A gold butterfly ornament set with
100 diamonds, a crescent with twenty
one diamonds, one and one-half carats
each; a gold bracelet with eleven
diamonds, marked IS. v. to A ",
1906" the stones about one carat each;
a marquise ring with three blue stones
surrounded with diamonds, a similar
ring with small diamonds. solitaire
ring with one and one-half carat dia-
mond, "gipsy" diamond ring with
three one-carat diamonds, a gold ring
with diamond in platinum setting, a
diamond ring, opal In the centre; ring
set with rubies and diamonds lions
head watch fob, the property of Mr..
vogel, and stolen from his vest-the
fob was set with three diamonds and
e-aved at the back was "a. v. to
g. ", June ~, 1906" and two cuff but
tons with the same inscription; gold
watch and double gold chain were also
stolen, as well as d diamond-set cigar
clip.
Two checks in Mrs. Vogefs bag were
taken. One was on the Union National
Bank. to Bauman & Froelich for $50,
and the other on the West Side Trust
Company. to C. Hauser for $685.
No insurance was carried on the jew
elry, Mrs. 'yogel said. Mr. Vogel told
the police that no other attempts had
been made to rob his place and that
he could furnish no clue as to who
were the perpetrators OF the theft