Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-08
THEFT
Of DIAMONDS,
IN JAIL
Mrs. Letthnich's Jewels
Stolen From Room in
Hotel While She Works
VALUABLE RING
Pair Occupying Next Room
Locked Up But No Goods
Are Found.
Description Of stolen iewelry:

Description of stolen jeweIry:
One ring set with three large
and 10 small diamonds. the face of
the set being in white gold and
the band yellow gold, the set form
ing T with the band of the ring.
One pair of diamond eardrOps,
the face of the drop being white
gold and the under side yellow
gold. Both large well matched
diamonds.
One string of pearls of grad
uated sizes from the center one,
size for tight clasp about the neck.
One platinum wedding ring.
One wrist watch. Six gem set
tings in wristIet. Blue ornaments.
One bar pin with blue ruby sets.
One diamond set ring, yellow
gold and one diamond in set.
Eight pieces of jeWelry owned by
Mrs. A. B. Lettunich and Of an eSti-
mated value of more than $500 were
stolen from the room occupied by Mrs.
Lettunich and her husband in the Yer
mont hotel sometime on Friday. The
report of the robbery was made to the
officers shortly after o'clock Friday
afternoon, or Immediately after the
jewels were missed and the search in
stituted by the officers landed the per-
sons believed to have been responsible
for the crime in JAIL Three suspects
were taken into custody but one was
later released while the two believed to
have taken the articles still are behind
the bars.
Those arrested were John NeWsome
and wife and Henry Johnson. The
latter was released some hours after
he first was detained
According to the story told by Mrs.
Lettunich, after her husband who is
with the Arizona Produce company,
had left for his employment on Friday
morning, she decided to wash some
articles at the rear porch of the hotel.
She wrapped her jewels in a handker-
chief and then placed that in hand
bag which she concealed under the
articles in the dresser drawer and then
went about her work, leaving the room
probably close to $780, She was busy
with her work until II o'clock when
she returned to the room but suspect
ing nothing wrong, she did not I'M
mediately have occasion to look for her
Jewels. In fact, it was not until her
husband returned and they were get
ting ready to go for drive that she
went for the jewels. Then she diScov-
cred that there was something stick
ing from the drawer as though 1T had
been opened and closed hastily AND
she called her husbands attention and
asked if he had opened it. But ere ne
had time to reply, she exclaimed thai
the Jewels had been taken, as she was
then reaching for the bag containing
them in order to get a par pin.
When the matter was reported to the
! officers, they Immediately began ar
| INQUIRY which soon turned Suspicionl or
i the people that had occupied the ad'
joining room and who had checked ou
but few hours before the jewels
! were missed. The clew was followed
up until the arrests were made.
The search disclosed that the doc
I to the adjoining room had been open
4 ed and had not been securely closed b.
some one and it was that clew tina
the officers followed up in their effor
/ to locate the people who had left tn
! the hotel.
4 The landlady of the Vermont hote
lent every possible assistance to the OF
/ ficers in tracing down the people nov
held by giving the best possible de
scription of them She told how tn
men had come and gone from tn
hotel together, but that the woman re
manned in the room and appeared t
i be sleeping much of the time for tn
two days they were at the hotel Sh
said that she had seldom seen tn
woman out of the room.
/ John Newsome and his wife, Wer
arrested late Saturday afternoon o
suspicion of being implicated in tn
theft of the Lettinuch jewelry. The
admitted that they had, occupied tn
room directly adjoining that of M
and Mrs. Lettunich and said that the
checked out just before noon on Fri
day.
The arrest Of the pair came abol
in an unusual manner when polio
operatives asked persons about Doug
las who are in position to meet tt
public to watch for the pair and for
third man, Henry Johnson. A Dougl;
citizen who is acquainted with Johnso
met him on the street and told hi
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