The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-03
SHOOTING REVEALS
EATON'S DOUBLE LIFE
At Deaths Door He Admits the Theft
of $4,000 From a Woman
in New York.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3. The theft
last year of gems worth $4,000 from
Miss Marie II. Kohn, daughter of a
Paris banker, was cleared up yesterday
to the satisfaction of the police by n
confession attributed to Herbert J.
Eaton, dapper young man who lay
at death 5 door from detective s
bullet at an uptown hospital. Eaton,
who lived in well-to-do circumstances
with his wife and baby, was shot late
Wednesday night while running away
from detectives who had caught him in
n trap set for a thief and baited with
a wealthy woman and a roll Of bills
Mrs. Gertrude Pike, who lured Eaton
to arrest, told the police that Eaton
had telephoned to her demanding $500
for Jewels stolen from her apartment
on Riverside drive few DAYS before
She had met him at a fashionable New
Yook hotel, she said, when woman
friend introduced him as Mr.. Williams.
the supposed Mr.. Williams escorted
her home and obtained possession of
the KEY TO her though
she did not know it then-wlen her
handbag fell from her lap, scattering
its contents. With the key, she charged,
he effected the robbery
Eaton, apparently about to die, had
Il long talk Yesterday with inspector
Faurot of the detective bureau. When
it was over, Inspector Fanrot asserted
that Eaton had confessed the robbery
of Miss kohn : apartments in the
| fashionable section of Madison avenue
| in August, 1918. Eaton had met Miss
| kohn socially, it was said, and no sus-
| picion was ever attached to his name
| in connection with the robbery. Gems,
/ oil IA o+ hi
| gregating $4,000 Were stolen then.
| BY day, Eaton was private secretary
| to a member of a large wine import
| ing firm of the city, lie seldom left
home in the evenings and TO all appear
anres was a model Young man with
good social connections
The story of the second robbery
probably would never have been known
| but for the thorough search made OF
| Eaton 3 apartments. Detectives founG
there gems worth $I0,0o0 tucked away
in the strangest of hiding places. Tn
/ der a fern dish they picked up hand
full of Jewels including l50 small dia
monds and Il pendant of 10 diamond:
clustered about an opal. Behind a land
scape painting in sitting room wer,
found gold chains and earrings, ant
4 fastened to the back of a bureau
with pearls. Mrs. Eaton assisted in thu
search and apparently was as much as
tonished as the detectives.
i The gems were taken to police head
quarters, where it was found that thei
description answered that of thos
q, stolen from Miss Kohn. Detectives Wis
tied her and she told a story quit,
similar TO that related by Mrs. Pike
Miss kohn said that she met Eaton Il
fashionable uptown hotel. He wa
i introduced to her as !. l.. Mcdonald
=, He visited her several times at he
home and on the night of the robher,
she was TO have dined with him. III
brought her to the restaurant in a tax
icab and after conducting her to TIL
waiting room excused himself, sayin
he would return presently. She wait
) ed an hour and then went home to fin
that every room had been ransacked
She recalled later that Mcdonald, b,
some preteXt, had obtained her late
key while they were riding in the tan
icah.
| Eaton is not expected to live ont tn
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