The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-11
POLICE FIND STOLEN
$4,000 IN JEWELS
Sergeant Savage Sees Man
Trying to Sell Pearl,
Arrests Him.
OWNED BY MRS. WHITMAN
Russian Had Pockets Filled
With Cash and Precious
Stones.

Mrs. Malcolm D. whitman, wife of the
former tennis champion, formerly Miss
Jennie Croker OF San Francisco, famous
! as having lost one $4,000 necklace
overheard from an Atlantic liner and
for having lost another by theft, re-
covered through the quick eye Of de-
tective Sergeant Charles Il. Savage yes
| terday the better part of third neck
lace OF diamonds valued at $4,000. She
stands In fair way of getting II all
, back, plus $4,000 worth more of jewels
stolen September 10 from her country
place at Lawrence by q man servant
Sergeant Savage with his side partner,
Detective Thomas Hughes, became in
quisitive yesterday afternoon wnen they
cav a man entering one jewelry store
after another in the Maiden lane dis
trict, They finally stopped him and
asked him casually what he was selling
! He produced pear shaped pearl,
mounted on a scarf pin of platinum and
offered 1t to the officers for 5000.
! Let's get IT priced in here" re-
! marked Savage. leading the salesman
| into a nearby jeweler.
| The jeweller took one squirt at It
through his pocket periscope and re-
marked:
"Oh. it's worth about s3,5O0."
| Whereupon Detective Sergeant Savage
I lived up to his name with pair of
bracelets wholly devoid of the jewellers
art and conducted the salesman to Police
Headquarters. There Inspector Cray
shook from his pockets a dazzling array
of diamonds. rubies. pearls, opals sap
phlres. platinum and Jade.
! Seldom has the Centre street sun seen
such a glitter through the dingy win
dows of headquarters as was spread out
on Cray's desk yesterday afternoon. The
Inspector was blinking over II and
wracking his brain for clue he knew
ought TO be there while the salesman was
volubly explaining how he was a trans
atlantic steward who picked up trifies
like this cheap in France and was thus
enabled to, sell them reasonably here
and at a profit. But Just then the In
spectors memory functioned inspec-
torially.
SECT out lie said, you're MIR. Whit
mans third man" and the Inspector
pulled that third man" line with such
utter nonchalance that the salesman de-
cided the inspector was regular visitor
among the butlered and footmanned. So
he confessed he took the Jewels and quit
his job without a word. Those that were
found on him yesterday afternoon cor
responded exactly with many items in
the list which Mr.. Whitman had re-
ported as stolen. Only the magnificent
diamond necklace Appealed to be miss
ing. But the prisoner. who gives his
name as John Reider. Russian, had
nearly a thousand dollars in cash in
his pockets and a bank book of the
Dowery Bank showing credit of $4,000
more. He finally admitted that he had
broken up the beautifully matched
stones in the necklace and disposed OF
all but seven of the sixty-three for about
$4,000. The seven remained in his pos
session and we're identified by Mrs
Whitman last night.
Reider will be conducted on a tour by
the police tomorrow and they believe
they win be able to locate all of the
stones he has disposed of.
Mrs. Whitman, as Miss Jennie
Croker. was one of the best known OF
the young women of society devoted to
sports. She formerly owned one of the
best kennels of pure bred dogs in the
United States. Mr.. Whitman was the
national tennis champion in 1898. 1899
and 1900. He is at present a cotton
broker with an office at rs Madison ave-
nue.. and a town house at Fifth avenue
and Eighty-ninth street. formerly the
| home of the FIRST Mrs. Francis Burton
Harrison, who was Mrs. Whitman's
| sister.