Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-12-27
LARGE DIAMOND
MAY AID POLICE
TOCATCH THIEF
Pawnshops Watched for $780,
600 in Gems Stolen in
East Orange.

Under the direction of Chief of
Police William H. O'Neill. of East
Orange. a vigorous search is being
made in all the pawnshops in this city
and New York to locate some of the
Jewels stolen from the home OF Mr..
and Mrs, Clifford A. Eagle, a newly
married couple at 40 Walnut street
East Orange. on Saturday night. The
loot is estimated to be worth about
$4,000.
The thief, who is supposed to be
hiding in New York, has one gem
which he viii find 1t hard TO dispose
OLA twelve-carat diamond. 1t was
the center of diamond lavaIliere,
said to be worth $25,00O
There was only one clue left by the
robber-his footprints in the snow
outside the Eagle home.
Mr. and Mrs. Eagle left their home
at o'clock on Christmas afternoon.
Al $50 the only other person in the
house. William Jones, 9. negro servant
left for his home. When Mr.. and
Mrs. Eagle eretuIned at { o'clock they
found a glass panel in the front door
broken. The thief had reached in
and unlocked the door
Mr. Eagle could hear someone
walking around upstairs. and ran up.
The burglar went out of q second
story window to the roof OF bay
window and slid down tree or
dropped to the ground He had been
thorough in searching the house.
emptying bureau drawers. closets,
trunks and boxes. The jewelry had
been put in an old leather hat trunk
in closet in Mrs. Eagles bedroom.
and nothing was locked.
THE lavalliere was an heirloom of
Mrs. Eagles. Its history do not
clearly know said Mr. Eagle, "and
she is so prostrated that ! do not
care to ask her to go into its history
at this time. 1t had originally been
a simple drop but some time ago
my wife had it set In the modern
lavalliere form. The large diamond
was surrounded by FIVE smaller dia-
monds."
There were, he thought, nearly a
score of other articles taken by the
Christmas Day plunderer. besides $40
in cash There were a platinum heart
measuring two and one-half inches
across, and set with thirty-eight dia-
monds, valued at $1,000; a ring Of
two large sapphires surrounded by
fourteen diamonds. 81 800; the en-
gagement ring given by Mrs. Eagles
former husband. and a. sapphire
brooch, 800: a garnet pin. $50. The
other articles were in the nature of
trinkets. including cuff links and dia-
mond set studs belonging to Mr..
Eagle.
'sThe thought. that we might be
robbed seemed never to have occurred
to my wife, Mr. Eagle said. Be
sides, we went out very little socially
and she seldom if ever wore her
Jewels, and never the lavalliere that
[ can remember. / doubt If any per-
sons in East Orange knew her to be
in possession of these things. / don't
think the thief had heard of the $685.
600 ornament. but simply chanced
upon 1t.
Mrs. Eagle was formerly the wife
Of Edwin Taylor, who owned and
conducted the Clinton Hotel in Clin-
her sixties. while Eagle Is fully TWEEN
ty years younger. He Is said to have
been the nephew OF her first hus-
band. who died six months ago. They
were married very quietly some weeks
ago. He is manager of the credit de-
partment of Stanley & Patterson,
dealers in electric supplies at % Muir
ray street, New York.