The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-01
FURS STOLEN FROM
 SHOP IN ATLANTA RECOVERED HERE
Local Buyer Says Articles Were Offered to Her By
 Reputable Salesman

Approximately s1,oo0 worth oi furs, alleged to be part of the furs stolen from the Lorena company In Atlanta October IT were recovered by Detective Luther Hollums of the po- lice force, who arrested Mrs. Annie { Jaffe and S, B. Levey, her son-in- law, yesterday afternoon, charging them with buying and concealing stolen property.
 The furs, which Mrs. Jaffe had pur- chased, were found in Room PIP Hiil- man hotel in the sample fur shop which she runs during the winter months. Mrs. Jaffe stated to the de- tectifes that she had purchased only the furs recovered by the detectives which amounted to $500, and that the man she bought them from was 8 le- gitimate salesman from an eastern fur house and she did not know the furs were stolen property. She and Mrs. Levey called upon the salesman in another hotel to see the furs, and she stated that was the only way he was connected with the case.
 Mrs. Jaffe and MT. Levey were both released from custody, pending preliminary hearing, after they had made bond.
 Solves Atlanta Robbery
 Police believe that with the recov- cry of the furs yesterday and the ar rest by Chattanooga detectives of R. E. Davis and Sam Cauley the rob bery of the Lorena company in At lanta has been solved
 According to Miss McWhorter, pro- prietress of the Atlanta shop, ap- proximately $1o.000 worth of furs were stolen, the burglars gaining entrance by renting & room In a ho- tel directly above the shop and bor- ing holes through the floor with a brace and bit. They were alleged to have knocked out the flooring and made away with the furs. The police stated Cauiey said he had offered the furs to Mrs. Jaffe here in Birming- ham for S2.500. He had called on her. He said she placed the furs in her trunk and ordered him to accept $350 for them or she would call the police. Cauley told the detectives he had sold 8 list of furs to Mrs. Jaffe, which list, upon verification by Miss Mo Whorter of Atlanta, amounted to $7,225 by her estimates.
 FOScd As Salesman
 Cauley is said to have introduced himself to Mrs. Jaffe as a salesman representing a New York fur house, stating he had just completed a southern trip, was in need of money and was Just returning east. She stated she went to the rooms of the salesman in company with Sol B. Levey to look at the furs, which she bought for s350.
 Mrs. Jaffe stated she had fre- quently bought furs from salesmen representing eastern houses and did not think anything of buying the furs for her sample fur shop at the Hillman hotel.
 Detective B. F. Gillespie of Att lanta. went to Chattanooga with requlsition papers for Davis and Cauley, who were arrested in Chat tanooga by Detectives H. r. Payne and Joe Paradise and brought them to Birmingham en route to Atlanta They reached here yesterday morn ing. Miss McWhorter also came to Birmingham yesterday morning after being tipped off by the detectives and identified the articles as those taken from the Lorena shop In Atlanta. The robbery was considered one of the most sensational carried out in At lanta in several years. because of the way in which the burglars entered the room.