Evening star., 1937-01-25
NEW JEWEL THEFT
HERE IS DISCLOSED
BY $4,000 LOOT
Additional Jems Recovered
in New York Believed
Stolen in D. C.
POLICE ARE TRACING
EXTENT OF PLOTTING
Mrs. Bugher Goes to Identify Be.
longings-Suspect Again
Is Questioned.

While police of Washington and
New York sought to determine If
they had uncovered an extensive back
stairs gem theft plot engineered by
servants Of the rich, another un-
explained element was injected into
the Bugher robbery today with the
discovery that a hitherto unidentifled
batch Of jewels seized in New York
apparently was traced in part back
here.
Valued at $4,000, this collection
was picked up Saturday night in New
York at the time police started a
roundup Of suspects in connection
with the 100000 theft from Mrs.
Henrietta Bugher, 1785 Massachu-
sets avenue. This smaller lot first
was thought to have been the pro-
ceeds Of Connecticut robberies, but
Inspector B. w. Thompson, chief OF
detectives, said today that markings
on some Of it indicated it had been
the property Of the Mclean family, to
which Mrs. Bugher was related by
marriage.
1t was possible, however, that this
angle would be cleared up today, as
Mrs. Bugher, widow Of Frederick H.
Bugher, was in New York to identify
her own jewelry and would have an
opportunity to see the other.
Suspect Questioned.
Meanwhile, local investigators ar
ranged to renew their questioning Of
John Morcischeck, 40, dour Bugher
butler, charged with grand larceny
in the theft Of the gems from his
mistress, which he reputedly admits
sending to New York, where they
were located by Detective Sergt.
Joseph w. Shimon Of Washington.
Morcischeck, believed also to have
had some connection with this $50, 900
lot, insists, according to police, that
he found the Bugher jewels in the
hallway Of the ultra-exclusive Massa-
chusetts avenue apartment house.
Mrs. Bugher told police. however, that
they were stolen from a cabinet to
which she recently had moved them
from a safe deposit box, so they might
be handy during the social season.
In the collection are heirlooms once
owned by Mrs. Mildred Mclean Dewey.
widow Of Admiral George Dewey and
aunt Of Mrs. Bugher's late husband.
Morcischeck, who for two decades
had worked in wealthy American
homes, was questioned again yesterday,
but police said he gave no new in
formation. His fingerprints are to
be sent to Paris, London and Berlin.
to determine If police there have any
record Of him prior to the postwar
period, when he was employed by
the late John N. WHY'S, Midwest mo-
tor magnate.
When New York police, together
with Shimon, went to work on the
case they picked up Mrs. Agnes Olsen
johnson, a domestic. along with the
S50,o00 lot Of jewelry, and charged
her with receiving stolen property.
Another woman also is held there.
Mrs. johnson, according to police,
said she had not known of the jewelry
until the package in which it was con-
tanned was opened. She said 1t came
from Morcischeck with this note:
please excuse my writing. Am
sending parcel to you. Please hold
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The second woman held is Isabelle
HUT, q maid. who, Inspector Thomp-
son says, Is the Anna Hansen" to
whom Morcischeck admits sending the
Bugher jewels. They were intercepted
in the New York post Office by de-
tectives and the woman was arrested
yesterday when attempting to trace
the package at Substation.
Hansen Is Released.
MariuS Hansen, "a, and unemployed,
who had been arrested Saturday night,
was freed yesterday. Police say that
he was brought into the case by dis
covery Of wire sent him Thursday
by Morcischeck, who said: Presents
are coming. Give to Isabelle to give
to Agnes. ]. NJ"
New light was thrown on still an
other Eastern jewel robbery yester-
day when a Massachusetts State DO
liceman arrived In New York to claim
$4,000 in gems, which were part of
$125 900 loot taken at the home of
william Kennedy, Southboro, Mass,
last November. They were located in
jewelry store which police said was
reputable concern that had pur-
chased them unwittingly several weeks
ago.