The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-08
Servant Blamed for 100000
Burglaries at Summer
Homes Of the Rich.
MAID MAKES CONFESSION
Says She Aided Husband in
Stealing $5O,OOO Jewels
Plunder Recovered.

Marie krueger. and her husband. James
Mcintyre. had been recovered last night
Except gold mesh bag worth $7OO.
lyn, an actress Of the less prominent
sort. Mcintyre gave II to her last
night. This was the night
after he had robbed the Haas home. lie
was on his wny to Greenwich. Conn. to
Join Reginald Rhind. who later pawned
u diamond horseshoe. part of the loot.
Mcintyre says he gave the Mag to the
actress at the Murray IIill Hotel. The
bag was the largest piece he stole.
There should he a gold purse In II.
The Burns Detective Agency satisfied
lntyre have had hand In the Newport
and Narragansett Pier rObberi-s last
summer. totailing 100000. which were
never solved. They are on the trail Of
q Jeweller who is the biggest fence for
thieves In this country. His identity IN
not certain. but the city where he works
and receives the loot Of his men Is
known. 1t Is not New York. II IL a
city much more easy Of access for
thieves at Newport and NarraHansett.
VIII Now Question Servants.
Rhind has worked in Newport In the
Paul Rainey. Leonard. Young
and Vanderbilt families as second man.
one OF the largest single robberies Of
last summer was at Narragansett in
the house OF very wealthy Pittsburg
steel man. The Burns agency was
asked TO solve II. When the agency re-
ported to the mistress Of the house that
IL was an inside job she replied that
she trusted all her thirty servants. The
suggestion that they be questioned
made her panicky. She declared that
they would all leave her and she would
be able to get no others II they once
felt themselves suspected. So the Burns
people had to throw up their hands and
quit. Now they have an idea they are
going to question one or two OF those
servants who were above suspicion
This In the confession Of the maid.
Marie Kruger. who robbed Mr. Haas.
as made to him.
Marie Kruger being duly sworn doth
IN New York city on January 2
last. ! took position with Mrs Haas on
March last. Since that time he has
been after me to take the ladies' Jewels
but ] refused
CrGed wife 20 steal.
"On Tuesday he came to West End
and continued pressing me to steal the
jewelry lie called me coward. said
] was afraid and on Tuesday night |
finally agreed TO do II.
He gave me full instructions as to
the plan while I walked with him on
July 2, he waited at the
corner and saw the family leave at
about s 80.
He came right to the back OF the
house. where I was waiting for him and
then told him where to fnd the jewels
He went up the back staircase. and after
taking the Jewels came down and told
me not to worry. he would not give me
away. and not to worry IL did not
hear news N q couple OF days.
II then sat out on the porch and waited
q while. At about $40 went upstairs.
opened the window. pulled out the drawers
and rushed down screaming. There's q
man upstairs!'
II am making this confession OF my
own will and accord and with no promises
MARIE kRUEGER MCINTYRE.
'Sworn to before me this 7th day Of
July. 1913. T. v. ARRowsMIrH.
Master in Chancery Of New Jersey"
Maid Amends Confession.
The maid afterward amended her
written confession by adding these
words at the top Of the second page:
A.. ~~,lA hNs ,k =
him where everything was"
The quick work Of the Greenwich
police after the robbery disappointed
the hope Of the Burns agency that
through the Haas robbery II might
capture the jeweller who has melted so
many thefts OF the kind and acts as
fence. The Haas gems never had a
chance to get to him.
The gold mesh bag. which Is still miss
ing. and diamond horseshoe were the
only articles taken from the Haas home
not found In Greenwich when Rhind
and Mcintyre were arrested there. The
diamond horseshoe was recovered yes
terday morning from q New York Jewell
Ter. A. 8. Borg OF l46 West Twenty.
third street.
DsSsssW"W ssUsWeS S"Des
Harold II. Zeamans, who is a lawyer
In Mr.. Haas's ONCE at 42 Broadway.
glanced up about quarter to Q o'clock
to see enter the door stoutish German
looking man who seemed worried. The
visitor was Borg. He had read that
Mr.. Haas had been robbed and that had
made him suspicious about a piece of
jewelry that had come into his posses
sion on Thursday. Then Borg reached
In his pocket and hsheo out a chamois
watch casing. From this he drew out
the missing horseshoe.
secret Mark Ideatiaes Jewel.
Zeamans looked at the hack and did
not find tho name Of Cattle. Instead.
holding It to the light. he was able To
see that something had been erased
from the platinum spur. 1t was beau
tifully done with emery paper. an OK
pert said afterward.
The Burns men took the horseshoe
up to Cattle 4 Co. and asked them to
look for their private mark. a stamp
perceptible only with the microscope
and used by all the big jewellers. In