The New York herald., 1922-06-02
HOTEL CLERK HELD
FOR $4,000 THEFT
Ernest Hill Caught Living
Luxuriously After Bag of
Valuables Vanishes.

Ernest Hill. 25, accused of stealing a
bag containing $500 in cash. $500 in Lib
erty bonds and jewels worth between
$50, 900 and SIS 900, Which Mrs. Irene Wad-
dell of New Orleans had deposited with
him when he was a clerk at the Hotel
Wentworth. 50 West Forty-sixth street,
was arrested in Newburgh yesterday
and brought to New York last night. A
charge of grand larceny was made
against him at the West Forty-seventh
street station.
Hill got a position as night clerk at
the Wentworth through Sixth avenue
employment agency, and went to work
on May II under the name of Fred
Sampson" Two nights later Mrs. We'd
dell registered at the hotel and handed
the bag containing her valuables to Hill
requesting that he put in in the safe
and keep it for her until the next day.
Hill gave her receipt for 1t. but when
she called the next day the day clerk
was not able to find the bag cr any
record of it. Samson" also was gone.
Detectives Nancy and Stanley found
that about the time Mrs. Waddell de-
posted the bag of valuables Hill had
been talking to Harry Goldberg. %. of
y East Twelfth street, former EN-
ployee of the hotel. and another man.
They caught Goldberg at Broadway and
Forty-sixth street on Saturday night
and held him as a party to the theft.
Through Goldberg Hill was trailed
through Mlddletown. N. Y. and several
other cities. The third man has not
been located
1t was found that Hill had been liv-
ing luxuriously in Newburgh. posing as
middleweight pugilistic champion of
England and spending money with
free hand. diamond studded wrist
watch valued at $500, a platinum bar
pin and several other pieces of jewelry
were found in his pockets as we'll as
$ioo in cash and some pawn tickets.
One Of the tickets showed that he had
pawned four carat diamond ring for
$500
The police said they had information
that Hill left the hotel a the instigation
Of two other men and that the contents
Of the bag were divided among them.
Hill gave his address as 536 Fifty-frs
street, Brooklyn.
The police of Brooklyn believe that
Romeo Goulet telephone burglar who
recently was arrested in the rear Of 1776
street, Brooklyn. on
y,
vide finery for his bride. Canadian
girl of II. Detectives found the bride
when they went TO Goulets room at 307
Monroe street. and search OF the room
disclosed silk dresses lingerie and jew
elry worth about $1,000.
Goulet came here from Montreal. He
has confessed to twenty burglaries in
the Flatbush. Borough Park and Bath
Beach sections of Brooklyn. His system.
it was said. was to select an apartment
and then call its tenant on the tele-
phone. II there was no response he
would go to the apa rtment and rob 1t.
Three criminal cases OF importance
the man who stole s6s 600 in jewels from
Mrs. Mitchell Harrison of Philadelphia.
the ex-convict and bookkeeper who APP
propriated $4,000 from his firm and the
two burglars caught by the police after
an eight hour vigil-were disposed of
yesterday in Generals Sessions.
Luman J. Beebe. who said that the
bag containing Mrs. Harrison's jewels
was thrust by mistake into his taxi
cab at the Pennsylvania Station. was
sentenced by Judge Mott to two years
in State prison. lie said What would
you have done. Judge. If you had opened
a bag as I did and saw all that jewelry?
thought l was a modern Monte
Cristo."
Erwin ]. Wider Of 3065 Decatur ave.
nue.. The Bronx, pleaded guilty before
Judge Mott to forgery i'm the third de-
gree. He made false entries i'm the
books of l.. Erstein e. Bros, Inc. soap
merchants, 3io Fourth avenue. He was
remanded for sentence on June g.
II 1919 Wider was sent TO prison for
nineteen years for embezzling sS50.0o0
from bank He served about six years
and was released.
Judge Mott gave four year terms in
State prison to Henrick Van Gulick and
Abraham Finkel two of four men cap
tured when cordons of police recently
were thrown around the offices Of Cali
houn, Robbins e. Co., s95 Broadway.