Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-10
)ENT jewel THIEF .
10 FACE TRIAL HERE
lnotan Sends Detectives to Get
Man Who Returned Part
Of $50, 900 Loot
ACTION NOT TO Be DROPPED

E.trsdition papes to bring Elmer M.
nslmas from California to this State,
an a charge Of having stolen 100000
!, Jewels from Mrs. Stedman Bent, Of
f,verbrook. will be taken to California
:, CITY Detective George Gibson and
coun,y Detective Cunningham. They
, leave today.
District Attorney Rotan, hearing the
,,u,rance company that insured the Jew
(, AZ had succeeded in obtaining most Of
lam back from Delmas, and showed a
,Ssnosition to drop the case. said: These
rSorle should not have. started criminal
rrosecution against this man and then
ruit. will not permit the District At
scrney's Office to be used as collec-
tson agency. We will urge the authori.
tiss of California to give us their full
5so.operation. go the ends OF Justice may
h met. What we demand Is Justice,
At present the prisoner is IN the hands
Al the police Of Long beach. CAM. He
~, time effected the return Of the jew
si.r The insurance company presum-
III, then lost further interest In the
G nelmas had number Of aliases, ac.
.,.dinU 70 the police. He is also known
=. Finer NJ. Dowdy. and Edward =.
n.v;s. lie became acquainted with Mr..
Hsnt. a wealthy contractor and builder.
CSo Il also vice president of the Penn
svivania Steel Company. with Offices
~ I423 Locust street. and home at
soAn Drexel road, Overbrook. He had
.o Soau previously arrested in this city
Ss s.a "hotel prowler." or suspicious per-
an who ha,lrts hotel lobbics.
Renresenting himself as man OF
vealth and a globe trotter. De'mas made
mch n favorable impression he was in =
sited TO the Bent home for the week
end. Mrs. Bent, who was visiting in
New York. was summoned home to help
her husband entertain.
In some manner, 1t is said, Dowdy
learned Mrs. Bent had left some valu {.
Able Jewels in q Chestnut street shop
F, to be repaired.
Bent, according to the police. from a
Z hotel, telling her he had missed his boat
for South America, and would be In
fhe city for several hours longer. Later.
he IL said to have told her, he intended
70 take a train for the West, and then
South through Mexico.
A In order that he might carry mes
cages from Mrs. Bent to friends in the
West, he suggested she might meet
him in the hotel grill. Mrs. Bent
agreed. and met him at 5 o'clock that
afternoon.
First. however, Mrs. Bent went to
the jewelers. and obtained her jewels,
which she placed In a handbag. There
we're two bracelets set with diamonds
and sapphires, valued at $4,000 each |;
a string of pearls and diamond stud
ded wristwatch.
During the conversation Mrs. Bent
showed Delmas the jewels. Following
tea, as they were ascending the stairs,
Deimas threw Mrs. Bent violently
against the wall. seized the bag, and
fed
The robbery was not reported at once
TO the police. Instead the insurance
company took the matter up, 1t is said.
and was successful in recovering nearly
all the jewels. The Police Depart
ment, however. is anxious to get Del.
mas Oh the charges that have been
made.
True bills of indictment had been
found against Delmas by grand jury,
md all that was required was proper
Identification to cause his arrest. Mrs.
Bent went to detective headquarters
and readily picked ont his Photograph.
He had been arrested before under the
alias Of Davis. lie was the man, she
said, who had robbed her.