The sun., 1919-06-26
.BIETMORE AUDITOR
POSTS GEM REWARD
InformstioRss, Il; Regarding oMys-
terry Must Be Given to
Him Directly.
$4,000 WILL BE PAID
Have Fact to Upset Theory Of
Jewels Being Mislaid, Says
&&Mrs. Millhiser.
$4,000 WILL BE PAID


OF the Jewels of Mrs. Clarence Millbiser.
which are supposed to have vanished
from a safety deposit box while in the
custody Of the Biltmore Hotel. can earn
an easy $4,000 by imparting the secret
to e. d. Miller. the Blltmore aud tor.
This offer of reward was handed tore
porters at the hotel at o'clock last
night by Deacon Murphy of the law
firm OF Edwards. Murphy a Minton, at
torneys for the Biltmore:
Ten thousand dollars will be paid by
the Hotel Biltmore for the recovery Of
or information leading to the recovery
Of the lost Millhiser jewels.
ANY Information must be given d.
rectly 10 Mr.. E. d. Miller at the Hotel
Biltmore and no other information than
that 50 given will be considered"
Mr.. Murphy was on his way to- see
Auditor Miller when he handed out the
typewritten slips. He said he had moth
ing to add to the formal announcement
and could not elucidats the rather Pc
culiar wording of the second sentence
He said that his information regarding
the loss of the gems was still Incomplete
and he hoped to he enlightened by n
conference with Mrs Miilhiser. She
came up from her summer home In FL
boron. N. j., yesterday afternoon. saw
representatives OF her attorneys. stanef-
field & Levy, and went to the st. Regis
Her reply to those who sought inter-
views was II have no statement to
make" Mr.. Murphy will undoubtedly
try to arrange to see her in the presence
OF Mr.. Cohalan. who is representing the
Stanchfield firm in this case.
Gems Not Mislaid. she Says.
Before coming to New York Mrs, MIL
htser replied to a suggestion that she
might have mislaid the missing portion
OF her Jewels, valued at s27b,00o. and
have been mistaken as to their presence
in the packages which she placed In q
hotel safe deposit box on May "a; the
day her husband died. She said II have
one big fact which will upset that the
ory." What the big fact was she would
not say, and her lawyers were silent yes
terday, as on Tuesday. Mr.. Murphy
said he had no theories regarding the
big fact" and that indeed there were
several circumstances with which he
was not fully acquainted and could not
be until he had talked with Mrs.rMill-
hiser. vi
1t was said positively at the Bltmore
that no employee of the hotel has. bsef
dismissed, suspended or detained, al
though lot Of Interrogation hasaoeefi
going on. Apparently suspicion has not
been directed toward any person.
The clerk who supplied Mrs. Millhiser
with safety box on May 20 IL the same
clerk with whom she dealt June 10 whom
she went to the desk to open the box
and take away the contents. He Is work.
ing as usual. The time Of Mrs. Mill
hisers first appearance at the desk and
consignment of the jewels to the box
was between $40 and $50 o'clock on
the evening Of May 20. The record Of
the completion OF the transaction is not
so exact. She called for the Jewels some
time before 8 o'clock on the afternoon
of May 90" opened the packages she
had put into the box and made known
her loss
Under the State law the liability Of q
hotel for articles left in its keeping IL
restricted to $3.50 unless there rs q
special agreement whereby the owner
is insured by the hotel for more than
that amount. Whether Mrs. Millhiser
and the Biltmore had special agree
ment could not be learned yesterday.
The fact that the hotel offered "a re-
some
quarters as indicating that there might
be a lawsuit for heavy Naturalization II
the jewels were not found. On the other
hand. there are 30 many points in the
arair that are pushing the Biltmore
managers that Il seemed reasona BILE
to suppose that Il would be worth s1o,-
600 to the hotel to have them cleared vp
without regard to possible legal action.
The hotel of course has a reputation for
safeguarding all possessions left in it's
care and is unwilling to believe that the
Millhiser Jewels were stolen from the
strong box in the Office The hotel man.
Rgement and its attorneys have not yet
conceded that there was O robbery, but
In the announcement OF q $4,000 re-
ward they do admit that the Jewels have
been lost.
Police Remain Silent.
Police Headquarters continues to act
as II 1t were unaware of the Biltmore
episode. Detective Hooker of the East
Fifty-first street station has been as
signed to the investigation for several
days, but has made no better progress
than the private detectives who are dodg-
ing around. One police official spoke; OF
the possibility OF two arrests. but the
Vagueness OF his prophecy Indicated that
he had no more ground for 1t than did
his supsriors q few weeks ago, when
they we're talking of rounding up the
bomb plotters within the traditional
forty eight hours Mrs. Millhiser and
her agents have declined to make pub
lie list of the missing ornaments. It
Was said ,unofflcially yesterday that the
pearl necklace was valued at $170, 600
and that there were four other pieces
two diamond rings. a diamond and ruby
brooch and brooch set with diamonds
and sapphres.
Mrs. MIllhiser said at Elberon yester-
day morning that some of the published
descriptions of the Jewels were extrava-
giant. She said that the amount of her
late husbands fortune had also been ex-
aggerated. She deplored the fact tho
robbery had been made public. She
said she had asked that there be no
publicity. and that following the death
OF her husband and OF her son in ser-
vice in France the affair had unnsr,sed
her. Her two daughters did not accom-
pany her to New York yesterday. She
remained in her rooms At the st. Regis
after reaching the hotel early in. thu
afternoon =