The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-26
YOUTH JAILED BY FRIENDS
VINO ACCTSE HIM or GRAND
RCENI- RING, PIN, MONEY.
n. Murray Kitchen. Ig-lear-Oid Bond
Clerk. VINO Lives I'm Montcisir. Says II
All started as Joke 1 ma BILE to Get
BaiI Yesterday His Account OF II.

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". Murray Kitchen. i7-year old bond
clerk in the Guarantee Trust Company.
who lives with his widowed mother and
three brothers at iI5 Lincoln street. Mont
clair. when at home, but also has rooms
at Churchill's Hotel Broadway and Four
tcenth street. Manhattan. was arrested
shortly after midnight Yesterday morning
in front of the Garden. Fiftieth street and
Seventh avenue, as he was handing a girl
into a taXicah. John @ Wadsworth, "A
young civil engineer just ont of college.
and policeman stopped young Kitchen
at the taxicab door and he was taken to
cell at the West Fortv-seventh street
police station house on technical charge
Of drunkenness
Yesterday forenoon Kitchen was ar
raigned before Magistrate Kernochan In
the West Side court and there the charge
was changed to grand larceny. The
young clerk was held under s. 900 bail
upon pleading not guilty and taken to
cell in the Jail in West fifty-third street
adjoining the court
Young Kitchen in the jail yesterday
afternoon gave his version Of his troubles
! He was told that his two friends Wads-
worth. the civil engineer. and Fielding J.
Thatcher. MD. who live together in a
suite in the Longacre apartme 75Y
seventh avenue, or next door TO the
Garden, charge him with the larceny Of a
diamond ring which Dr. Thatcher values
at 500. II diamond stckpn worth $50 and
500 in cash
Kitchen IS a fairly good looking youth.
I ttk ,.i.n
that last year he was fired" from the
Lawrencevile school while preparing
for Princeton lie came into the war
den r office yesterday wearing blue suit
with trousers turned up to the correct
freshman height and a lavender silk
handk erchief stick ing out OF an upper
pocket and partly ConCealing leather
watch strap which ran fro m the button
hole of his coat lapel to the upper pocket
He was smoking IA cigarette. wore one
| of IN" newst "monoplane' wide brimmed
derbes and had just sent ont for his din
ner.
They served chick ken in this jail day"
| he began, but couldn't eat that stun
Anybody around here know a professional
| bondsmau:"
Young Mr. Kitchen was told that no
I body did and also ask ed to tell lust how
4 II happened that ne was spending Christ
mas IN jail
Thursday night began it," he said
| readily. Il ran into Nadsworth and
| Thatcher some place and We tried to yet
into "a place, but couldn't get away with
| IL SO We all went To the Garden the
old Stirling. YOU know. Just before
we went in Wadsworth and Thatcher
decided TO pool what money the three
| of Ms had and turn II over to me to do
the buying | remember that one of
them stuffed some money down into nv
| hip pocket, hut 1t wasn't 3lUI A. | re
member there was SIS in fives and six
ones Az least that's about what found
! in my poke, the next dav az noon
After We were there some time Wads-
worth and Thatcher suggested that I
spend the night with them. Before we
/ left our table az the Garden Thatcher
stuck his big diamond ring on nv finger,
1 ! remember now. and | told him he d
better take II uT He took il of hut when
we all got into the elevator of their apart
ment house shortly after Thatcher stuck
the ring on my finger again
| Il woke up sometime the next day
pretty early with all my clothes on. even
my hat Wadsworth and Thatcher still
We're sleeping The hail door was wide
open. | got mp and went downstairs
and got into a taxi to 60 down to the
/ Guarantee Trust Company Office TO work
And about this time | looked down and
saw the big diamond ring on my finger
Il put the ring in the safe at the office
right away, and it's there now and they
can have II whenever they want il. About
noon | reached back in my hip pocket
and found the seven tiveo and the six ones
wanted to return the ring and the money.
but for the life of me | Couldn' remember
where Wadsworth and Or. Thatcher
live. had to start of to Philadelphia
right away to see a girl over there so
| wrote a letter to the fellows care Of the
Garden that's one of our hangouts
telling them | had the ring and some
money and started for Phiadel lphia