New-York tribune., 1913-10-12
ARRESTS MAY SOLVE
BIG JEWELRY ROBBERY
Two Men Held as Implicated in
100000 Theft at Mar
ragansett Pier.
DETECTIVES MAKE CHARGE
Say They Have Found Persons
Who Were Asked to Dis
pose of Loot-Crawled
Through Windows.

James Stewart. a jantor. Of No. $50
Manhattan avenue. and Hastings Wiley
Mason. OF No. 81 West s7th street, were
held for examination Tuesday In the West
Side court yesterday on the charge OF be-
ing implicated IN the Hanan and Rumsey
$4,000 jewel robbery at Narragansett
Pier last July
They were held on the complaint OF
Daniel F. Finn. OF No 237 West 18th
street. and James y. Armstrong, OF NO. 26
Oliver street, both private detectives. The
detectives alleged they had found wilt
nesses who said the prisoners had told
them Stewart had committed the rob-
berries. and also that both he and Mason
had attempted 10 dispose OF the loot
through them.
According to Mr.. Finn. the men ap-
preached former Judge Herbert r. Tink-
ham. OF Duluth. MINI. now living at No.
ls9 Claremont avenue, representing to
him that they had the jewels in their
possession. They met him In George
Lommelrs cafe. at Broad and Beaver
streets. several weeks ago and showed
him box containing number OF gems
which they declared to be the ones taken
from the Hanan and Rumsey homes.
They told Judge Tinkham, said Finn.
that Stewart crawled through windows in
the Hanan and Rumsey houses and stole
the Jewels himself. bringing them to New
York TO dispose Of.
They went on to say, according 10 Finn,
that they had found difficulty in getting
rid OF such conspicuous loot here. and
then proposed 10 Judge Tinkham that lie
take them to Seattle, TO dispose Of them.
When Judge Tinkham refused to do this,
the story runs. the two pen called at the
Tinkham home twice and asked Mrs.
Tinkham TO take the jewels TO Seattle, hut
she also refused.
Judge Tinkham said last night that he
had been attorney for Mason several
times. the last time being when he was
up before Judge Mulqueen on charge CT
forgery. TO which he pleaded guilty, being
released on a suspended sentence.
After the men had made their proposal
TO Tinkham Finn learned Of IL. and IN
turn saw c. c. Tegethoff. agent Of the
estate Of the late E. II. Hartman, Mrs.
Rumsey's father Tegethoft engaged
Finn to investigate the case further, with
the result according to Finn. that he
found witnesses to corroborate Tinkham's
story in part He laid these facts before
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty and the
men were arrested.
According 10 the police. Mason has n
long criminal record. but they have moth
Ing against Stewart. Stewart denied the
whole story yesterday. but Mason ad-
mtted he had shown Judge Tinkham a
box and that he told him the box con-
tained the stolen Jewels. He said, how
ever, the whole thing was a Joke, and
that tire box contained nothing but nsh-
hooks
George Lommell. in whose cafe the Jew
els are alleged TO have been shown first
said Yesterday he saw the men talking 70
Judge Tinkham and that they had box
containing what he was sure were jewels.
Judge Tinkham told Finn the men said
they were keeping the loot stored in
safe deposit vault in Newark Finn spent
Yesterday searching for vault In their
names, but failed to find any trace OF It.
Both men were held in $4,000 bail by
Magistrate Barlow. who also issued five
subppnas for witnesses in the case The
police are particularly desirous of finding
Mason's wife. who is a trained nurse
somewhere in Manhattan.