New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
FLUNG TO STREET,
GEMS COME BACK
Delivery Boy Made Off
with $1,000 in JeWelry
and Money

Fate and delivery wagon driver re-
stored TO Mrs. Rose Tabor, of Roches-
ter, n. Y, yesterday the greater part
of $4,000 worth of jewelry which mad
vertently was flung into the gutter of
! West Eighty-ninth Street on January 4.
Mrs. Tabor, who was visiting her
brother-in-law, Emanuel Tabor, of 251
West Eighty-ninth Street, had resolved
to sleep late on that morning. A neigh
boris coal was delivered at 9:28 o'clock
however, and woke her up.
At 9:29 O'Clock, while she was in her
dressing room, maid entered, jerked
the pillows from the bed, snatched up
the sheets and shook them out of the
window. While in the very act she
was halted by shrek. Mrs. Tabor had
returned.
"My jewels!" she cried.
Loses by Part of Minute
She was too late by the fraction of
a minute. The two chamois-skin bags
that had been under her pillow were
living in the gutter. One had rolled to
the very feet of the coal man.
The maid hastened to the street. She
as in time to recover the bag which had
fallen at the coal mans feet. The
other had vanished.
The one that the coal man had
found contained valuable diamond
brooch, several smaller pieces Of Jew
elry and Sl50. The other concealed
diamond ring of two and one-quarter
carats and fawless, valued at Sl,OOO,
and $4,000 worth of other gems, as
VII as S100 in bills. The coal man
hadn't seen it, and not another person
was in sight. But there was a deliv-
ery wagon vanishing into Broadway
Delivery Boy Moved by Fate
That wagon was driven by William
Mcdonald, nineteen years old, or 54Z
Brook Avenue. The Bronx, late Ia
vorite for the day. AT the iateIui nour
of 9:30 his wagon was oeneaLh MIs.
Tabor's window. The ehamols SKIN pag
had almost landed in the seat beside
him. Automatically he hoped on ana
snatched II up. .,I
Time passed, and Mrs. Tabor decided
that her gems we're gone. But tate
had another trick in its bag TO display
to Mrs. Tabor and to the erstwhiIe
favorite, William Mcdonald.
A few days ago Mr.. Tabor overheard a
a man offering jewelry for sale 70 some
of his Office mates. The descripViI9I
fitted his sister-in-law's gems. lie
professed a mild interest in the stones
and agreed TO meet the owner az 20
lumbus Circle last night.
Detectives Keep Appointment
He had detectives from the Atm
Branch with him when be kept the sp-
pointment. and they promptly arrested
William Mcdonald, the man who had
the jewels.
Instead of getting a handsome re-
ward or, in true Oliver Optic style
receiving a place at the bottom of Mr.
| Tabor's ladder, William Mcdonald, un,
/ lucky youth, was fated 70 be locked
/ up at Headquarters, charged with grand
/ larceny.
Fate. however, is an artist in the
manipulation of that prime literary
element. suspense. Mrs. Tabor suspect
ed there was something wrong with the
pure white "a carat diamond. 4 jew
cller confirmed her suspicion. The
stone had g flaw in IL. Detectives
learned from Mcdonald that he had in
trusted that ring 10 a friend, who had
1 left II Tor a day with jeweller to get
! an estimate of the stones value. A
substitution lad been made.
FLORIDA. AL EAST & WEST COAST