The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-22

o'Neill. and James Sheridan, alias Jane,
and pleaded guilty to assisting Callahan
In robbing the post Office station at
Bremen.
Raftus was given two years and Sheri-
~ four years in the penitentiary at
Leavenworth A fourth member OF the
gang. Martin Thorston, alias Martin
O'Hara. alias Toledo White, was arrested
by the post Office inspectors in Chicago,
following the daylight robbery. He was
"pinched" for having participated IN the
robbing Of the station at Bremen. but as il
appeared the Chicago authorities had a
clear case agains; him on the other charge
Ie was turned over to them. II il under
stood he was sentenced to long term in
the prison at Joliet
A fifth member OF the gang. Charley
Connors. alias Ice Connors. who is alleged
to have participated in the post Office
robbery and also in the robbery of Mrs
Drimmond. is still at large
According to the information received
ny the department here to-day, Callahan
has confessed that he and Connors went
W the coronation last June for the pur-
pose OF dlsposing of the diamonds they
had stolen, IL appears that about the
time they had decided TO leave Lon don
they had been spotted. butel ,ided the in
spectors who were shadowing them and
game back 10 this country. They had
booked to sail on the Adriatic and 1t was
ihe attention to arrest them when they
landed in New York. Instead of this,
however they took the Amerika, and on
the trip over relieved Mrs. Dr1immond
OF her diamonds.
Mrs. Drummonds 3 pearls. valu ed by her
AT s130.0O0, vanished over night from the
drawer Of writing desk in the bedroom
of her suite on the Hamburg American
liner Hamburg. where Mrs Drummond
placed them on February 25, 1911, as the
s,eaTshp was nearing port here and after
she had displayed them at dinner that
evening. When the ship docked in Hobo
ken on the afternoon Of February 20 the
police of this city and Of Hoboken were
potiiied and the hunt began. II was inn
possible TO search the | $50 passengers
and the detectives confessed that they
were without clue TO start on. The list
OF the Jewels was as follows:
Three strings OF white pearls. altoget her
numbering eitaer 273 or os3
One pair of earrings of black pearls
surrounded Ly eighty-one diamonds.
One large black pearl ring set with small
diamonds. value %, 900 francs.
inonds.
tine shield shaped brooch of black and
pink pearls surrounded by diamonds. with
= pendant of large perfectly spherical
black pearl of the diameter of a dime
There have been many reports that the
Whereabouts Of the missing Jewels had
been. discovered. A year ago Mrs. Dnrm-
,nond hurried here from Chicago in re
sponsa to such report and later she went
10 Aiken, ;. C.. on the triil of the stolen
pearls.
Mrs. Drummond got the pearls when
she was Mrs. Marshall Field Jr.. Before
her first maria ge she was Miss Albertina
Huck. daughter of Louis e. Hucl,. NAL
ster of Chicago. She became widow in
November, 1905, when Marshall Field.
DR.. died Of a Sunshot wound rsceiv ed
while he was cleaning n g6p preparato ory
10 a. hunting trip. Soon after his death
Mrs rleld went abroad with rer TWO sons
Marshe j and Henry. who were placed
IN school at EtCr, and her daughter
Gwendolin
She married Maldwin Drummond. the
second son of the late T.. A. Drummond
banker, on September 3. 1903. at Regis
trar' s Office in London. She had met MIR
Drummond about ten years before when
she and Mr.. Field We're visiting in Eng
land. He is 10 years old and is nephew
of the late Sir Arthur Victor Wellington
Dr,immond. who married the daughter
Of Charles Lamson OF this city. Mrs.
Drummond received about 81 900 OOO
from her first husbands estate.
Since the robbery there have been out
standing rewards aggregating SO. 900 for
the detection Of the thieves and recovery
OF the pearls, Mrs. Drummond offered
100 reward and the Lloyds OF London