Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
SEEK MURDER CLUE
IN STOLEN Jewels
AFTER HOTEL RAID

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missioner Mulrooney positively jubilans
| came when representative of Kohn A
Co., Newark jewelers., placed his finger
on "a pieces which had been found
among the 100000 worth of jewelry
ponce mad dumped from the safe deposit
smartly tailored Robert Nelson.
The Newark business man declared
mat these pieces had been taken from
salesman for his company in the old-
IaShloned switch game" trick. Thew
were worth about $4,000, he said.
When thieves changed luggage with
Inc salesman on q train between Grand
NaploS ana chicago June /, 1925, they
escaped with $4,000 worth Of gems.
IN separate courts, the four of the
prisoners, taken from the Hotel COM
modore--Cole, James w. Watson OF
chicago, Jack Rosen of New York and
William j. (Chuck) O'Connor az
Bunalo-and Nelson received their
preliminary hearings.
Insists He Is Broker.
Nelson, politely insisting that he WAS
. broker and race track follower a.
he had described himself upon his
arrest In his Brooklyn home Monday
night, was held In $4,000 bail, charged
with suspicion OF criminally receiving
stolen goods.
The others, defended BY Attorney
James Q. Murray. were returned to theiN
cells until June 2, when their applicas
ton for writ Of habeas corpus win
be heard.
Hilda Carter remained aloof from thu
night Tor bail and was kept In her cell,
Coles capture in the Commodore waS
the result OF an old police ruse. The
other three men and Hilda Garter were
already under arrest when Cole called
the room on the telephone. Detective
Lieut.. Richard Oliver posed as O'Connor
and invited Cole to the room. He was
waiting with handouts when the
suspect appeared. When Cole saw the
trap about to spring. he dashed down
the corridor. pounding at doors and
shouting: "Hold-up, thievesl"
Oliver sprinted after him and snaps
ped the handouts about his wrists al
guests were crowding into the corridor.
Engineered by Detective.
The background of the raid is stiIl
shrouded in mystery, but Noel S. Scaffa,
a private detective retained by insur-
ance firms, is gradually emerging az
the man who engineered the affair.
Insurance Arms were becoming ex-
ercised during the last year over the
consistently successful jewel robberies
staged all over the country and banded
together to strike at the heart of the
criminal trade-the fences.
1t is said now that the information
which led to the raid came to Scaffa
three months ago from stool pigeons.
The trap was definitely laid three weeks
ago. The detectives who were to break
into the room in the Commodore were
selected and the legal steps necessary
to enter Nelson's safe deposit boxes
taken. Oliver. for years an intimate
friend Of Scaffa, was made chief OF the
raid.
The package of $4,000 and 81 900
bills, totaling $4,000 in all, which went,
sailing through the window when de-
tectives entered is still an unexplained
secret. Nobody seems to know where
the money came from and why 1t was
thrown so promptly from the scene OF
the raid.
Detectives recovered $4,000 Of the
money and pedestrians recovered S3.5008
more on Tuesday. Yesterday another
$500 bill was found by two employees
OF the hotel. And this leaves but 81 .000V
Of the. shower Of money to be ac-
counted for.
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