Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-19
DIAMOND RING
 RETURNED TO OWNER
MRS. HAZEL GREEN IS ARRESTED HERE AT INSTANCE OF BEN.
 TON TELEGRAPHER.
Had Officer With Him and Woman Was Glad to Return Stone and
 Pay Their Expenses.

An attractive little woman, giving her name as Mrs. Hazel Green, was arrested at the Hotel Jefferson yes- terday, where she had engaged room, by Deputy Constable F. R. Campster and City Detective J. L. Me Burnett at the instance of c. H. Wom- ack, telegraph operator, of Benton, Ark, who alleged that she had stolen a diamond ring Of 2 1-2 and 1-16 carat and valued at $500 from his home in Benton last Sunday. 1t was planned to take her back to Benton to answer charge of grand larceny but she offered to pay Womack's expenses and the expenses of Deputy Sheriff Dave Cox, who had accompanied Womack on the chase, if the Benton man would not press the charge against her, to which he agreed and she was released from custody
 The woman had only few dollars in her purse and it is said well known Pine Bluffian gave her the mo- ney to pay the expenses of the two men, which amounted to about $35. Mrs. Green is cousin of Womack S wife and stopped over in Benton Sun- day to pay her visit. The wife was absent and Womack insisted on her going to see his mother. He was wearing the ring at the time and mo- ticed that she admired it and permit ted her to handle it and put it on her hand. Womack is an operator and ticket agent for the Rock Island at Benton and on going back to the depot left the ring with her. The woman followed him few minutes later and boarded a Rock Island train for For dyce, telling Womack that she had left the diamond with his mother. Up- on returning home he found she had taken the jewel with her.
 He immediately wired to the cOnduc- tor on the train to get the ring on the threat that she would be arrested at Fordyce, but she was clever enough to stall the conductor by telling him that she mad left the ring at Womak's home, and promised to come back the next day and locate it. Womack was not satisfied with this explanation and, accompanied by the deputy sheriff, went to Fordyce to find that Mrs. Green had driven over to Draughon. At Draughon she boarded the Cotton Belt and came to Pine Bluff. while the owner of the diamond and the deputy sheriff took the Anderson and Saline River Railway train and went to New Edinburg, Banks and Tinsman. But not finding ner they came to Pine Bluff and found her name on the reg ister at the Hotel Jefferson, where her arrest followed.
 The woman stated that her arrest was piece of spite work, that the ring belonged to her husband, from whom she is separated, and he refused to claim it in order that she might be arrested. She kept the long distance phone pretty busy through the day calling for Attorney General Hal L. Norwood, at Little Rock, whom she said was her uncle, and other parties in Texarkana and Oklahoma. She al so seemed to be acquainted with sev eral we'll known Pine Bluffians. He, story was not we'll connected and in several instances was contradictory as she stated that her mother lived in Conway and Kensett.
 Womack said that sine was well con- nected but did not think she was any relation of Hal Norwood. and also sai( he had never seen her husband. Wom ack, wearing the ring for which h' had chased over part of the state, ant Deputy Sheriff Dave Cox, returned tt Benton on the o'clock train yester day.
 After her release Mrs. Green left thu Hotel Jefferson but it is not knowl whether she left the city.