Evening star., 1937-01-24
Address in Servants Room
Leads Police to New York,
Where Another $4,000
Cache Is Located.
PICKED UP IN HALL,
PRISONER CLAIMS
Secret Search by Local Detectives
Results in Seizure of Property
of Mrs. Henrietta M. Bugher.
Package, Awaiting Delivery,
Was Addressed to Maid.
BY JOSEPH A. FOX.

A trusted butler who had served
in wealthy American households for
nearly 20 years was charged with
grand larceny yesterday as police an
nounced the theft and speedy recovery
of 100000 worth of jewelry belong
ing to Mrs. Henrietta NJ. Bugher. So
cially prominent widow of Frederick
H. Bugher, residing at 1885 Massa-
chusettS avenue.
Some of the gems came into the
Bugher family as a share in the es-
tate Of Mrs. Mildred Mclean Dewey,
widow of Admiral George Dewey,
after court fight among the heirs,
more than five years ago.
The prisoner is John Morcischeck.
40, who was arrested Friday night
at the Bugher apartment in the ex.
elusive establishment which also Is
the Washington home of Andrew w.
Mellon.
The butler was arrested only four
hours after the loot had been re-
ported. The jewelry was located in
the post Office at New York yester.
day and led police there to another
mysterious cache worth $4,000. New
York police booked Mrs. Agnes Olson
Johnson, 48-year-old domestic, on q
charge of having received it.
Morcischeck, according to authors
ties, denied stealing the jewelry out
Of cabinet, where Mrs. Bugher says
it was kept. but contends he found
it in hallway of the apartment. He
at first dsclaimed all knowledge Of
the matter. it is said, but finally ad.
mitted having shipped it out Thurs
day when some persistent detective
work uncovered the package.
The robbery first came to light Fris
day afternoon when Mrs Bugher re.
ported it to Supt. of Polfoe Ernest
W. Brown No word OF the case was
allowed to leak out of police head.
quarters as Brown detailed on it In.
spector Bernard w. Thompson, chief
of detectives; Lieut.. Clement P. Cox:
Detective Sergt. Charles Warfeld, in
charge of the jewelry squad, and De-
tective Sergts. Joseph w. Shimon,
Harry Britton and D. G.. Fletcher.
Wore Gems to Recent Events.
Mrs. Bugher told the detectives she
had only recently removed the jewel.
ry from a safe deposit box in down.
town bank to wear to a number Of
social functions, among them the Law.
ish New Year party given by Mrs.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean. She said she
had put it away in the cabinet Tues
day and had discovered her loss FRI
day afternoon when getting ready to
wear 1t to a social affair that night.
Convinced the theft had been en-
gineered by some one in the imme.
diate household, the investigators
questioned the servants carefully and
also inspected their quarters.
According to Thompson, this search
pointed in Morcischeck's direction,
and though the butler maintained his
innocence he was arrested.
Thompson says a number of adj
dresses in New York were in the Sus.
poets effects, and Shimon went there
early yesterday. Among the persons on
whom he was to check was a Marius
Hansen, employed in an East Sew
enty-fourth street address, and on
calling there Shimon was told that
he was away and that in his absence
a registered package had come for
him. This had been taken back to
the post Office because the receipt re-
quired a personal signature.
Shimon Immediately got in touch
with postal officials and had the pack
age held up until Hansen could be
located. He notified Thompson last
night that the package had been
opened and the jewelry found. So far
as Washington authorities know, there
was nothing In the package to indi-
cate what disposition was planned.
Meanwhile. with the report Of the
finding of the package, investigators
again brought Morcischeck in for
questioning, confronted him with the
evidence in hand, and then, they say,
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