New-York tribune., 1921-11-16
Enrigght Jewels
Gone and Police
Can't Find 'En1
Commissioners Wife Misses
$4,000 in Gems, Includ-
ing Wedding Ring, ON Re-
turn From Shopping Tour
Loss Is Kept a ssSecret':
She Recalls That She Was
.yostled Several Times on
Visits to Brooklyn Stores

Mrs. Richard E. Enright, wife of the
Police Commissioner, lost $4,000 worth
of jewelry, including her wedding ring,
Monday, and all the Police Commits
sioner's men haven't been able to find
them.
The search began within a few
minutes after Mrs. Enright reached
her home on st. Marks Avenue, Brook
lyn, and discovered her loss and has
been prosecuted vigorously but Sc
cretly ever since. Every precinct in
Brooklyn has description OF the Jew
elry and every patrolman and detective
has been on the alert for some clew
to its whereabouts.
In spite of the broadcast nature of
the search and the unusual zeal of
every member of the department in it's
prosecution, it had been conducted for
more than twentyfour hours before
any hint of the loss of the jewelry
became public. Even when the loss
became known the police immediately
concerned denied all knowledge of it.
The notice which was sent to every
| Brooklyn precinct in accordance with
I the procedure followed when general
alarms are sent out was inscribed,
"Not for the press" and so devoutly
was this injunction obeyed that even
after all the circumstance concerning
the loss were known, even to the
notation on the alarm, every police
official in the borough vigorously de-
MED knowing anything about the loss
of Mrs. Enright's jewels.
In a Chamois Bag
Detective Frank Carberry of Atlantic
Avenue station, who is said to have
been assigned to the case and conse-
quently has the individual responsible
;ty of it, referred all inquirers to Cap
tain John j. McCloskey, who has charge
of the Brooklyn Detective Bureau. Cap
tain McCloskey said he knew nothing
at all about the matter.
The jewelry was lost Monday after
noon. That afternoon Mrs. Enright
went downtown to do some hsopping
along Fulton Street, Brooklyn. She
entered several department stores, in
some of which she was jostled by other
shoppers, and on her return to her
home, on st. Marks Avenue, she dis
covered that the small chamois bag in
which she carried her jewelry was
missing.
ing. 1t contained, besides her we'd
ding ring, three diamond rings, two
wrist watches and several other pieces
of jewelry.
AS soon as she discovered that the
bag was gone and had satisfied her.
self that it was neither in her home
nor in the automobile which she had
used in her shopping tour Mrs. En-
right calleI 10 al! the stores which
she had visited.
Enrigbt Out of Town
At each store the lost and found
department made exhaustive inquiries
among the employees. At each store
the answer that was returned to Mrs
Enright was the same No employee
| in any Of the stores had found such a
| bag as had been described by Mrs
Enright The employees were notified
supplemented those of the police in
searching for the missing jewelry.
When she had satisfied herself by
the tedious process Of teIephoning that
the jewelry had not been picked up by
an employee of any of the stores she
had entered Mrs. Enright decided to
| see what her husbands policemen could
! do in the matter.
She called up borough headquarters
informed Captain McCloskey OF her
loss and asked that general alarm,
for the missing jewelry be sent out al
once. Whether the request for secrecy
! in the search came from Mrs. Enright
! or was made by some police official on
his own responsibility could not be
| learned.
/ Commissioner Enright himself is out
, OF the city and although his home or
| ST. Marks Avenue had lights in most
OF the rooms last night there was nj
response to repeated rings al the door.