The sun., 1916-11-24
KINDNESS MOVES
THIEF TO CONFESS
SentSouth for Health by Fami-
lies He Robbed, Negro Was
Losing Mind.
NAILS 80 PAWN K
Ix.Furnaceman for N. de r.
Whitehouse Stole to Bet
, on Races.

Dividends IN the shape Of thirteen
pawn tickets for pieces Of jewsry worth
$500 have been returned 10 Norman
De r. w~hitshouss. the broker. for his
act Of Kindness in getting up . purse Of
$3.50 among his neighbors. to send
Thomas Days. . negro who tended fur
naces for half . dosen families on East
rifty-sixth street. 20 the South to re-
euperate.
For Thomas, sick and remorseful after
getting the $3.50. confessed to his wife
in sommerville. 8. c.. that. while doing
odd Jobs In Nj. whitehouse's homo at
iis a Fifty-sixth street he had Dor
rowed' jewelry. n piece at . time.
From another contributor to the purse
Thomas had taken seventeen articles.
value at present unknown. These pawn
tickets, too, were returned BY Thomas
wife to the family whose jcwelry was
stolen.
The story of Thomas's rise and fall
began some ycars ago when Thomas
was brought from Aiken. 8. c.. by Mr..
L. II. Hartman. Three yeafp ago Mr..
~nlIrnOuSc AAOtss&O 80 So
said, from Mrs. Hartman. The furnace
man gave satisfaction. He moved In the
highest colored circles, va Of q jovial
nature and occasionally borrowed money
from his employers .
Change Conss Over Thonas.
When the whitehouse family returned
from Newport on October Is last they
noticed q change had come over Thomas.
whenever Mr.. whitehouse spoke to him
he hesitated. stammered . response and
hustled out OF his employers presence.
Later he became Ill and Mr.. Whitehouse
had q doctor look him over. The physi-
clan prescribed q trip to the South to
brace Thomas up. a. his lungs were
weak.
Mr.. wh!tehouse started the purse and
soon $3.50 was collected and Thomas and
his wife were started to South Carolina.
A few days ago = long. badly spelled
and a%pologetic letter. with thirteen
pawn tickets. came to Mr.. whitehouss.
Good tips on the races were the
cause Of Thomas's slip from grace, &C.
ccrding to his wife, who wrote:
He lost dill his o and q man give
him a good tip n he thought II he
would pawn those things that he would
win money 1t wuns and get them right
out OF pawn and he lost. that day ard
a man give him q mother tip then h<
take more and try to win money to gel
all out Of pawn so he got stuck so ht
could not get any money to place any
th.nk 20 he undertake to 60 back to e,
aro,her tip TO win some money to get al
out and he say everything he bet N lost
Ne was l.osisE His Mind over IL
He say he started to tell you Blu,
every time he would undertake to tel
you what had happen he would get *
full n afraid to tell you"
Thomas's wife added that the doctor
said her husband was losing his mlnt
over II, 80 he decided to return thu
Tickets.
Mr.. Whitchouse. who was ~profoundl!
eratihed hat no M had given ThOmal
any moro good" tips, said yesterday h
had taken the rest of his Jewelry to New
port. The articles taken by Thoma
were scarf pins, q diamond ring an,
chain. gold trfnkets. q gold purse ant
diamond shirt studs. Although MI
Whitehouse places the value Of tn
articles al only $500. the police wer
sure they were worth $500.
Detective Fitzgerald of the Secon'
Branch Detective Bureau succeeded Il
locating most of the jeweiry In pawn
shops along the West Side. The detec
tive said. that tho 5ewelry had bee
pawned for. less than n tenth OF it, value
Mr.. Whitehouse would not reveal tn
name Of the other victim OF Thoma
good tips.