The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-08
GETS mrs. DUGHER'S GEMS
BALTIMORE JBWELLER RECOG.
NIZES GOODS AND THIEF.
IsScks Deer On ClArcaes Hewlett. VIVA
Battered store WIN False aaustAohs
60 sell somo Diamonds. ann Calls
Police ThIcf HAD neen In New Yerh.

BALTIMORE. April T.-Tbanks to the
keen eye and quick wit OF a jewel lsr
the man who stole the jewelry % Mrs.
Frederick Bu9her. wife % the Deputy
Police Commissioner Of New York. was
arrested to-day. Fifteen thousand dol
lars worth Of the jcwelry was found
in his clothes, and seeing no way out of
10 he confe.~ei
Tie man. who according 10 his own
statement has been going about freely
among the detectives and police % Nov
York wearing thin disguise. IL Clarence
Hewlett. alias wilson oliver Reeves.
alias Kenneth Freeman I'.s photograph
- said tai he in the rogue-' gallery of
every large city IN III. UnIon.
He - now wanted mot ia Washington On
the charge oT stealing iewelrv valued
AZ ST.. OOO from Mrs. Frederick Bughsr
while she was visiting in Wkshiag ton
with her mother. ,ns wife ~ Re..r Admiral
Ludlow
second man a, Mrs I.udloN' . on a recon-
mendation given 10y the widow ~ BISHOP
Batteries. got the jewslry from Mrs.
ISldloW's room and was gone some ums
before the theft was discovered.
To-day a man wearing little mustachs
entered the j"ws,ry store 81 Jacob Gam
norman, az North Calvert street. and
asked 20 have a diamond taken from a
ring and reset Then he offered TO sell
the diamond to the jeweller for SisO.
Gammsrman looked at the man aad
cried out: I know youl You're wanted
for stealing diamonds! You've got to
stay right hers till ! get an ofticeri'
Gammsrman locked his door and tols-
phoned to police headquarters. Thsa he
went 10 the door and called for an Officer.
Before headquarters could respond Ssrgt.
William II. Higgins. attracted bY the
crowd. ran in and took charge 81 Hewistt.
when thV tewslry was found on Hewlest
at the csntfIl police station hs confssssd
and said he was glad to be in the hands
Of the police Zimmerman had pens-
trased the false mustachs worn by Hew-
lett and recognized him as identical vita
the man whose picture had been sent
Hewlett said he came to Baltimore at
O'Clock this morning and registered ~
the ST. James a. J. Moses. He had gOe
q false mustachs and said he tried 20 80
diagliiss himself that he would look like
a Jewish diamond pedler. His schsns
failed TO fool Jeweilsr 0ammsrman- --
The interval between the theft on Tt@a-
day. March %. and yesterday WAS spsut
by Hewlett in New York. and he says he
put in most 81 the time in places most
freauented by detectives there. Wear
ing a red wig and a brown muStache.
which he himself considered q Transparent
disguise. he registered first at the Astor
House under the name ~ Chase and then
AZ the Waldorf There hs learned that
the police we're on his trail. but he saws
hundreds Of them in uniform and plain
clothes passed him by. hut none gave 4
Ign ~ recognition
While in New York he wrote a letter
60 Deputy Commissioner Busher Offering
to return what he had left OF the diamonds
II tbs. Commissioner would call N tbs
chase H.. wrote ~. Comruis@onsr 10
an=N. bv a personal ~ N"w YORK
paper
Dn., Iay h- laid ne ~ a. reading a story
about the robbery in a New Work paper
and sad ~ "A man AZ his side: That must
be- "A pretty rhrssSd fellO~ to set away
with tho=. diamonds The man an
sWer~d that The tpliow vas a crook and
easy To he recognized HsE lett ansv nred
Maybe 80
shortly aftsrward several detectives
came into the place aud began discussing
the robbery. IieN lett said he lost In
terest in the proceedings and left a.
speedily a. he could without attracting
attention.