The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-29

~ my woman guest, His suspicion
i shocked me. j had absolute CONT
ncnce in her
The Sunday papers were full OF the
mysterious robbery.
saw womnu's Hand.
The hutei ham maia sot my atten-
tion ionS enough on SUNDAY 10 WINS
per that she nad seen u shabblly
dressed man at my door "a Jew minutes
before mao returned from my rlue;
Shat he received small package that
Aau been halSleu 10 hiin by u woman :
anhd through the parity opened door;
that the door then WAS soItiy closed
and the man leisureiy w;uNeu 10 ms
= elevator anu disappeared.
she aiso inioinieu ine that my wo-
man guest, wnoin ! mad lett IN the
apartment when / went out to ride.
mad lett the hotel i lew mlnuLes AFTER
did, haQ been gone only d IIttIe
while, had followed -ne shauUIy
dressed man cut, out nau got back 10
the apartment only FEW SECONDS
ahead OF me.
told the police about tkis. but
1t did not seem 10 impress them !nucn.
Then / expelled ali suspicion against
her from ms minu. actually lett
sorry shat l ndd suspected ner at ull
Monday morning / asked her to
accompany DE Tor q ride M my auto
mobile 10 Arrowhead Inn. far up on
the HUDSON. There | mad made an
enGa cement By telephone to meet a
woman tortune-telIer.
l had been with her there only
Few minutes wncn the door was sud-
denly pushed wide open and III rushed
Two uniformed policemen, one OF W nom
was Lieutenant Braun.
Where is the man you came here
to meet?' demanded The police.
Sfia ~
teller as the man" The fortune
teller hurried away This lett me
nlone with the police. The Intrusion
occurred at II O'Clock in the morning.
They kept me and my guest under
the torture OF the third degree" in
separate rooms at the Arrowhead Inn
until II O'Clock that night. / was near
j. dead when finally Lieutenant braun
released me.
Lieutenant Braun said his Office had
Been tipped Off that l had gone 10
the Arrowhead to meet . man from
whom l was to borrow $4,000 with
which to redeem my jewels.
have always wondered if the mys-
FERROUS woman whom / had befriended
was not the person who tipped or
the police that morning.
when / got back to the hotel
found awaiting me dozen or more
kilograms from w, j. Sutherlan nd, SUI
perintendent of the Mooney & Boland
Detective Agency, in Chicago, oTering
his help
Three months later was summoned
TO Chicago by the Mooney & Boland
Agency to identify my diamonds From
the first they assured me that the
jewels would be recovered ii 1 kept
quiet
Allen Turned From Her.
It was while they were here thar 7
learned that Mr.. Allen had turned from
me. and l was asked what sort OF set
Element | wanted. said wanted
none; that MIR Allen owed me not a
rent; that he had been more than kind
10 me.
There are details of the double
crime which mus; not relate. To do
might discredit my whole story. so
incredible would they sound.
did not protest at the time tho
$1,000 was taken from me, because
the sole desire OF my heart, the one
object of my existence, was TO get
back my jewels.
This occurred in the onices OF the
Mooney & Boland Detective Agency
49, Broadway. All accounts hereto
fore given OF the delivery was that 1t
o-7curred in Chicago. l suppose from
what was told me that they were
actually in Chicago at one time. though
/ never saw them there
have never been able TO under
stand why nobody has been punished
for robbing me. They claimed to have
arrested two of the thieves, but they
turned them loose. Within the past
week telephone messages have come
10 my apartment in my absence from
a man claiming to be one Rosenthal
pointed out to me in Chicago as one
OF the robbers.
can't understand II all But the
most puzzling feature of the great
mystery to me, even to-day, Is who
the strange woman IS and what part
she performed in the plot