The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-11-09
LENS A BURGLARS NEMESIS
UONAN SEES GLASS ~ SNAKE
CHARMER'S HANDS.
Part OF Loot Taken From Room Of Sick
Author Thief's Capture iiastcned by
Indian show Robbcr GLAD That
Pursuit Is Ended-Ne eic0mes Sleuth.

My. my. my! (you must imagine each
one louder than the my before it,. Just
look at his fee-rocious fangs! Observe
his cruel mouth; step up close. ladies and
gentlemen. and through this glass Of
great expense and high magnifyin power
gaze until you are content into the ra-
pacious mouth of a rattlesnake!'
Thus Chief Yellow Boy, Indian snake
charmer. did day by day eNhort the youth
and age of Brooklyn in the freaks division
of Barnum 4 Bailey when the circus was
there last spring In one uuivering
hand he held rattlesnake by the back
OF its head while in the other before the
open mouth Of the reptile he held up a
four inch magnifying lens by its horn
handle, so that popping eyes could gaze
down the exaggerated innards of the
creature. Now among those who came to
look at Chief Yellow Boy and his snake
was little old lady with a knitted bag
and a husband. She tiptoed TO look down
the snakes mouth. but as she did so
her eye fell on the lens itself with its
horn handle. One side of that glass was
Clipped a little and to the tiptoer there
seemed something oddly familiar about
tne C0lDDtu itlls one Wtut away IIOlll lue
circus with the lens rather than all the
dazzling things Of the rings most promi-
nent in her memory. Late that night she
suddenly sa up in bed and seized her
husband. Il have it," she said. that
lens is the one that Col. Dennison used in
his lectures"
The little lady and her husband had
been unusually stirred by a theft that
had taken place on March last at the
home of their friend Col. Charles H. Den
nison. lecturer and author. at the Hotel
Winthrop. at l25th street and Seventh
avenue. On that day a man had come
boldly into the room on the fourth floor
where the Colonel. who was very i'll at
the time, was lying in bed, and had gone
of with about 500 worth Of jewelry and
bric-a-brac. The Colonel, who later died.
had been too ill TO give chase. and his
wife was out at the time.
Among the things stolen was four
inch magnifying lens with horn hapdle.
which the Colonel used after his lectures
to point out the beauties Of whatever
objects his lecture happened to touch
on. 1t had helped him in his reading
too and he felt bad over it's theft.
SO when the friend of the Dennisons
came to them with the story of the lens
and the snake charmer they told Detec-
tives Thompson. Hawkins and Flynn of
the West i25th street police station. who
we're working on the case. They went
post haste to Brooklyn and had an inter-
view with Chief Yellow Boy. He told
them that he had bought the lens from
one of the ticket takers for S.. The
ticket taker was not around any more.
He had left the show for good apparently
But the chief said his name was Henry
Schwartz and he remembered that they
had gone together to have their photo
graphs taken in a small Bowery gallery
The chief and the sleuths roamed up and
down through the Bowery galleries for
while and suddenly Yellow Boy picked
from pictured group Of circus en-
ployees a man who he said had sold him
the lens. The picture was taken to Police
Headquarters and enlarged there and
since then the three detectives have been
looking for the man in the picture with
the enlargements in their pockets.
Detective Thompson saw a man in
Union Square yesterday whose face he
was sure he had seen before. He took
one look at a worn picture in his pocket
and stepped up to the man. aHello.
Schwartz" said he. Hello. bull" said
Schwartz. I'm glad you got me. I'm