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ory Told by Detectives That Missing ; Diamonds Were Found in Mrs, Goe- ‘Them and No One Has Been rested. 7 \ latest and most sensational development in the mysterious theft Goelet’s $200,000 collection of pearls, diamonds and €amé to-day, when it was positively learned that a plain black the missing jewels, which the Pinkertons have declared found in the safe in Mrs. Goelet’s city house on Monday, was de- ed with the Adams Express Company in this city last night, with that it be forwarded at once to Mrs. Goelet at Ochre Court, tainin bt EAtough Mrs. Goelet is still at the Hotel Buckingham, in this city, ewels were sent to her Newport home by some persons whose identity at present known, and a despatch from Newport received by The World to-day announces that the box was received there on the rit train to-day and taken at once to Ochre Court, where it was re- for by the butler, ZENDS SMILE AT EXPLANATION, better evidence of how society has received the remarkable explan- ‘Offered by the Pinkertons and Mrs. Goeiet of the missing jewels cau than in the suppressed amusement everywhere, even among Mrs. t's own personal friends, over the narrative of her lapse of memory mabled her to have nearly a quarter of a million dollars in gems in tm her town house and forget where ehe had put them within twen- ir hours. one is prepared to assert that the explagation offered ia merely a 7 invention, but at the tennis tournament in Newport to-day the catch ‘among society women was: “Have you found your jewels yet?” with Accent on the “found.” This inquiry was invariably followed by of laughter. 48 DEEP A MYSTERY AS EVER. Ase matter of fact, the big diamond robbery is as big a mystery now Hf was when Mra. Goelet hastened to this city on Monday to take part in the detective work which was being done to locate her property. 4 ‘explanation offered of how the jewels were recovered has thrown no on the mystery at all, It 1s na too much to gay that it has simply amusement without carrying conviction to anybody. Those who could tell the story from beginning to end, stand round gealed lips. The Pinkertons regard it now as an affront to be asked the matter; Mrs. Goelct, sill] at the Buckingham, eays that “the in- fg closed” and refuses to answer questions or to see anybody; the Ygeal police maintain that they know nothing aboul the matter, and Chief d Police Richards, of Newport, who had been on the case from the begin- simply echoes what the Pinkertons have sald, ; GOELET NOT AT HOME, ve oh And in the meantime the servants at the Goelet town house, No. 608 avenue, sey that Mra. Goelet has not been there at all since s! eke Trom Newport un Monday. As a matter of fact, one servant sald) “ae phe didn’t even know that ber mistress had been in town at all, all ; wakes more shallow than ever the story that ts now offered in of the missing jewels, that they were in a safe at No, 608 Qvenue all the time, and were found there Monday night by Mra, and some Pinkerton men with her. ‘A feature of the case which has a good deal of Interest 15 the alleged of & diamond pin from Mr. Charles E. Greenough, at Ochre Court, ‘Aug. 2, leat. Mr. Greenough was a guest at the villa, He iy a friend Harry Lebr, comes from Wilmington, N. C., and {s intimate with the} and Duchess of Roxburghe. He was entertained abroad by them Mrs. Goelet entertained him at Newport. The story of the loss of Safe Lacks Verification— But She’ He is « tall, broad-shou Newport. Many of the storied. that obvious inventions of sandal mong explanation, it remains here the wholo caso. Pinkerton men, do th conventional thing. j¢rime during that time, It was her. look it for granted that they were, this box she was ast cluded they hig. been t gested that they might be im the Greenough's pin was spread broadcast throughout Newoprt on Aug. "ad a search of the Goelet house was made by detectives. It is uow that the story of the lose was an invention, made tc deceive the aer-! ‘and divert suspicion from the real truth, which was that the seareh Rot for a missing pin, but for the missing jewels of Mre, Goelet herself, REENUUGH DENIES HE WAS ROBBED, Evidently Mr. Greenough was made a stalking horse without his knowl- for the following day he hastened to deny that he had ever lost a dia- pin and to express surprise that such a story was current, ‘Mr, Greenough has an apartment on the sixth floor of the building at 3 West Forty-fifth sireet. To-day, when an Evening World reporter on him, he hed not risen. He finally received the reporter io his All the morning papers were shown to him and read them with . ‘Then he said: \ “There i nothing for me to say about this matter, Please do me the to say that Mr. Greenough was out when the reporter called and Temain out all dey.” ‘That closed the interview word on the subject. HNOUGH A GOOD FELLOW. Charles Edward Greenough is a young man who became ex- popular in society in a very short time, He is a Yale man, with) @ & good fellow, and it was through Harry Lebr that he was to the Newport circle. His fame is not like Mr, Lehr's, that ‘onkey-shine artist, but as one of the most inimitate story-teliers| | Mr. Greenough coum not be Induced to say fh it takes him longer than some folks to tell story, and he! ily talks on the very verge of his point, ils stories are good ones ‘Bis stuttering style bas made a hit in society, Greenoggh {s rich. He was sraduated from tho ShemMeld Scientific ‘Yale in 1901. Asa freshman at Yale he engaged in some pranks & good deal of attention. With certain other freshmen his room on the fourth floor of “Freshman Row,” on Temple fm 1899, and hurled various articles of furniture and . The police finally raided the room, and to escape fh calmly jumped from the fourth-story window. He broke d fame among the upper classmen and was the idol comsequence. KE PLAYED ON HIM, ia told at Yale to thie day, was worked once on Mr, when he was & sophomore. He called on a aprightly young With ® comic opera company which was playing at New lady didn’t want to entertain him #0 had the clerk of Indy didn’t want io entertain him, so had the clerk of ‘Went over to this hotel, the clerk of which had been tipped off, that the lady didn’t want to see him. To placate the haughty seat a case of wine to the room which he thought f. anid followed ft with flowers and confections, all of which sowie of his friends who heard what was going on, and the favors meant for the lady of the stage. NER AT DELMONICO’S, from Mr. Greenough came to New Yor! at Delmonico’s. The frisky young men whom he en‘er- "4 ‘soelaty has known in years, Mr. Greenough has @ fascinating stutter, @2me here from Newpor’ sate. theft. “The incident is now closed.” atouad in that Mr. a well abje to Mrs sais Ge hed care of himpelf, bik rhe tae with a rather handsome face. SOCIETY AWAITS NEW SENSATION. Society here and ip Newjort Js momentarily expecting sensational revelations, All dorts of ugly rhmots have ‘been given circulation, and the jewel robbery is the sole topic ot esa among tha big colony at re ispers are the but there bre others which are not. ‘That society believes there was an actu best known to herself Mrs, Goblut sdught only the recovery of her property and pot the punishment ‘of the thidf, there cad tbe no doubt. in Now fiorlety says {tnt Mri. God m¢ tobbery-and that for reasons mn ANNOUNCEMENT A MERE FARCE, ° The Pinkerton ‘announcement of the close of the case, with the finding of the jewels in Mra. Goelet’s gate; was a‘solemn affair, Ranged before Supt. Dougherty and bis men were reporters who have had experience with them for years and who have had experience with every phase of Jt that the Pinkerton men and the re- | porters could do to keep from laughing when Mr. Dougherty finished hia) tale of the recovery of the jeewls in Mrs, Goelet's safe, where she had| was sald by some that he made this carelessly left them when she started for Newport on July 21, “It's very simple,” sald the astute Mr. Dougherty, “Mrs, Goelet was in the habit of putting certain jewels {n certain cases. ‘The jewels that were missed shouid have been in a certain ca |MRS. GORLET’S ATTORNEY TALKS. George U. De Witt, Mra’ Goelet’s attorney, sald to an Evening World reporter to-day: “The jewels never left Mrs, Goelet's pomession. When she returned from her son’a wedding she placed the ewels in her safe in her Fifth avenue home. package. by mistake left the je’ said that (his could not and that they shquid bd there. ia that Jewels just as she left them. "At no time did Mie Goetet! oust the disappearance of t OPERATION KILLS. WAL DECK -ROUSSEAU #32 Former Premier and Statesman trom the Shock of the Sur- geon’s Knife. PARIA, Ave. .—Former Waldeck-Roussenu dled t ar the result ‘an Opera! Dr, Armour, a ¢ ted surgeon of Canada, and Dr Premier afternoon Broadway with “hampagne bottles in thetr hands after || in stirring up the Tenderloin as it bad not been sae ose Neseee Marts take charge of Mr. a to ap in iter lun finetion, a'ded by Dre, ver and aad te deny. Deegan ® | the paler shortly after Ke vee Bour- Med two aad exygirng alone apy, one of being. reepodeible for | Jewels. + She racked her brain in trying to think of some pereon who ' mgt have’ takpn the jewelry, but could come to no conclusion." ‘ j practised for at he made being elacted bean U erator, activities fi speech ga. When Pr deck Kousseay June, In, Soveens nent mead. “MESS Interior and t 10 Yeatore or operations, in | he |raes hn the nboveraaanre surgeons wore | F Pepwest ny Die ‘ ah ttling at Rennes retarned he id of France Fails to Reoover | x, but was defeated by At the fall of the Dupay Cabinet tn undertook the formation y whith war raid a number it his entran e, but did ther than dent Perter ri # atood for t Felix As for th y an amusing feature of obfet, After all’ hér éfforts to kee: the loss a secret and her own oofinection with It from being publicly known’ would hardly be expected to cbme out» with: the whole story now. The remarkable explanation made was undoubtedly the kertons, It was the conventional , dnvention of the Ptaverton men, and the like the police Botectivey en gestion of the Pin; ley * be depended upon to .' Mrs. Goelet took this case with No, she didn’t bother fo open i to see if the jewels wore in. We sug- fe in New York, but Mrw. Goelet was Yery sure that they were ngty She was certain that she hadn't put them there, but she discovered her mistake when ‘eke came here and opened the It's a very simple cnse, don't you see?” The Pinkertons wouldn’t hear of the suggestion that there had been a They scoffed the idea'ahd dismissed everybody with the same cop- \cluding remark that Mrs. Goblet made later: Ordinarily she put her jewels in the:box which she took to Naw-) port, but thie ime inadvertently she placed them in the safe in a separate “When she left for Newport, thinking that her jewels were all in the big box, she took that out of the safe witHout A thought of the other pack- age. ome time later at Newport when she wished to use the Jewels she opened the box and discovered her Joss. “Mra Goalet Wasmso pesitive that she had taken ‘the Jowels-with her that abe would haidly Itten to the Chief of Police of Newport, who was told tho story, 0: to the Pinkerton detectives who were employed on the case They repeatedly anring et No gd to her.town home and see if she had not Is in. some other packet ‘in tho that ‘she always ne ehe one Mrs. Goelet in the big box “The reason she did not go to her house on Mohday night when she ne Waited for her #ecreary. there yesterday morning and med hod memes Which disclosed the She went where he of years before iat mene tos rb In itn Pinon he ied himaelf with the Union, under whose stand. he made a notebdle reputation a3 an In October, 18M, he was elected Se tov for the. Lot m carry hie oceasional igned V Presidenc: Faure f ' National Defense.” The Pre mis? ithe th repul In he had the Dreyfus cane | fi Sinaia for ‘ab of the ey 04 ; She When ehe had oecasion later to open eg not to find the Jewels there. Then she con- m and we began an investigation, SOCIETY WOMAN “who VRO LOST $200, 000 . WORTH OF JEWELRY WHICH !8 STRANGELY RECOVERED. DANA READY TO. LEAVE. BELLEVUE Lesshithebvo Victim in Mysterious Central Park Shooting Expected to ; Tell Full Facts of Affair When Arraigned in Court. @ Bamuel 1. Dana, the bank clerk, who Is accused of having shot himselt in Central Park, in an attempt to end his life, and the mystery of whose shooting was made more mysterious when it developed that he had been secretly méarried to Mrs, Beatrice Plgnon, a woman, who lived at the Hotel Martha Washington, will be dis- charged from the prison ward at Belle- vue Hospital to-day, Since Dana has been in Bellevue he haa refused to make @ statement other than to gay that he shot himself. I: statement to protect the woman he had made his wife, hoping to save her from notoriety, Then it developed that Dane “had brought sult against the woman for di- vores on the grounds that she was a married woman., He explained in this case, which was as secret as hia mar- riage had been, that he did not want to be a party to bigamy About the time Dana filed his divorce sult Mrs. Dignan went to Seattle and breught suit for divorce from her first husband A decree was granted her, After the shooting of Dana came tha dlsoppearance of Mra. Dignon-Dana from the Martha Washington, and the | police have heen unable to find her, | A ball of $00 has been fixed for | Dana's apearance in Yorkville Court, on the charge of attempting suicide. There | are many who believe that In spite of the young m the vietim of the court hearing the full faete of the | shooting and the causes leading up to it are expected to be made public, It te not the plan of Dana's counsel, however, to take him to court, but to transfer him to one of the private roona in Presbyterian Hospital until he fully recovers, Cash ball for him will be de- posited with the City Chamberlain, KING EOWARD OFF TO BATHS. LONDON, Aug. 10-King Edward started for Mar'enbad, Bohemia, this afternoon to take his annual cure at the baths, He travele incognito os Duke of Lancaster. Hia stay at Marten- bad will be entirely of @ private char- with the exception of the oc- cas) of Emperor Francis Joseph's vidic to him there. — SIR FREDERIC BATEMAN DEAD Noted = Bn hb Vhysician Mad Writ Medteal Books, LONDON, Aug. 10-8ir Frederic Bateman, M. D., born in 18%, died to- day at Norwich, He was a member of many socloties, consulting physician of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and author of numerous medical works, ee NIHILISTS ARE BUSY, —— Report that They Have Murdered Two Ruse! of je. BERLIN, Aug. 10—The Vossische Zeltung says that Tregubenko, head of the Forest Department, and Chief of Police Kusaezoff, have been mumlered openly in the streets of Nakhchivan, Russia ———— MAN DROPS DEAD. Otte Goldstein Bxp! Leaving Doctor's Office. to Goldstein, of No, atreet, dropped dead to-day In the office of Dr, Finkelstein, No. 110 Rivington sireet, He was on his way out of tne office wits a prese:tplon when the fatal attack seized dim. Goldstein wad in been a sufferer 4 De, Pivkelstein He -vas quite | © weak when he went ‘D aee the doctor Hamdan Hi necessary. SATOLL SAILS BACK TD ITALY The Cardinal Returns Home on the Italian Liner Sardegua After a Long Visit to the United States. WAS VERY MUCH PLEASED Archbishop Farley and Other Well-Known Roman Catholic Clergymen at the Pier to Say Farewell to Cardinal. Carfinal Francesco Satolli, who came to this country to visit friends and to oMfictate at the marriage of Mar- garet Maloney, the daughter of Martin Maloney of Philadelphia, to J. E. Ritchie, agiied to-day on, the Italian line steamship Sardegna. He was ac- companied by Rev. Glovanni Qlotont, Rev. Guiseppe Maruchi, his secretary, and Rev. Ercole Satolll .hie nephew. ‘The Cardinal and his party were on board for two hours before the veesel and daring the time the Cardinal held an informa! reception both in his stateroom and on the steamship’s deck. He occupied a suite of rooms on tne promenade deck amidehips. On his arrival he found on the table in his library several magnificent oral gifts. A big bunch of red rosea was sent by Mra. E. A. Ashman ,while other tokens wére from'J. E. Ritchie, Mr. and Mre, Martin Maloney and Archbishop Far- bey. Go Autograph On Cap. Among those who were down to see the Cardinal depart was Mra. Spottls- wood Mackin, who bears the Papal title of Countess. The Cardinal, through hia secretary, presented Mrs, Mackin with a suchetto. She was effusive in her thanks, but inalsted that it be returned inal Satoli so that he could write his iname on the interior, This ecretary was unwilling to do, but Mrs. Mackin Inalsted, and finally a prieat took the red cap and In a few minutes emerged from the Cardinal's Toom with the latter's autograph on the kid lining of the cap, Mrs, Mackin was so elated that when the Cardinal appeared on deck she rushed up and Eatelng on the wet deck kissed his ring, “My trip here,” said Cardinal Satoll!, “has been not only pleasant but alae an Interesting one, I have been treated with the utmost kindness and every courtesy has been shown me. I go now. with feelings be it ue ire and of forrow that I must @o Someone naked “tne card whether he would return to dedicate the tear! which Is to be erected in Bt. " would like to return, but 1 Song Lan mee & od,” he saidr shaking d and rubbt: la hunde t am fifty-five years oid now. t will be ia, come over,”” As to his the Cardinal said nd at Naples and go Bid Him Good-By. ho went do the party all were: Archbishop Mer, Lavello, Rev. J. V. awit, Becratary to the renbiahep, and Rev. Ferrante, Italian Secretary Archbishop; Mar. Weat Pol NO AGE LIMIT SET IN THIS FACTORY Vice-President Childs, of Bar- rett Manufacturing Company, Denies His Concern Has Dis- charged All Over Fifty Years, rater think Vice-President W. H. Childs, of the Barrett Manufacturing Company ,pro- nounced untrue 'o-@dy @ story that the concern had issued a ge order on Aug. 1 discharging from its plant at Shadyside, N. J., all employees who had reached the age of fifty years and over. “Tt te absolute fake.’ said Mr, Chjlds, ‘© order of the kind waa ever written by an officer or any one else connected with this company. We dis- charge men and take men into our employ day in and day out, as ts done in all lines of business and endeavor, but aa for the seatement that we have adopted a policy fixing an age itst of Since Aug. charged vnly two men and@ not twenty five as has been stated. Those are work- ins in sonnet 7 Shady se { present thete are 106 men employed in Soe poyr Hap Hed Shad y a ery one 0 satisfactory, As for bnady Bide being dependent upon eur employees for ex- fatence, that te ridiculous, I want to say, too, that the man, John Horold. quoted as being among the ‘mossbacka’ we had discharged was never in our employ, nor any one by that name. LIEUTENANT A VAGRANT, Germans, Who Claims to Have Been an Army Officer, Seat to Island, A man who described himecif as Lieut, Paul Bonewits, fifty-eight years old, no home, was to-day sent to the work- house on Blackwell s Island by Magis- trate Baker, in Harlem Court, as a i its said that he belonged to the German Army twenty-eight ‘ad to leave his native coumtry eral reasons, which he rajied | , to state, ————— CHILD MANGLED. NEW LONDON, Aug. 10.—-Edward 8 May, aged two yeare and two months, son of Mr. and M of New Rochelle, Killed while riding laune| Niantic River with two smali childre . Cig iged and a man in charge ot "ine eh “niet a o WITH HIS RECEPTION HERE. | MISS PARKER, BROOKLYN GIRL WHO ~ THINKS SHE'S RELATED T0 JUDGE | my pocket and found my p MYSTERY OF MAN THINKS SHE IS KIN STARVED 10 DEATH) 10 JUDGE ose Pane J. G. a ton Commercial Travel- | Gertrude hee» a Pretty ler, Taken to Bellevue from} Brooklyn Girl, Writes a Letter Hotel, Puzzled Doctors—Au-| to the Candidate and Receives topsy to Be Held To-Day. a Courteous Reply. Jobn G, Gregg, a commerctal traveller of Pittsburg, died at Bellevue Hospital last night from what appears to be starvation, What disease or ailment brought on the condition by which he was unable to partake of food for three days will be revealed in an autopsy to be performed to-day, Dr. Leroy Smith, of Bellevue Hospital, in making out the death certificate recommended the case to the Coroner, @ registered at the Vendome Hotel Saturday afternoon. He ap poared to have been drinking heavily. The next heard of him was at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, when Policeman Miss Gertrude F. Parker, «@ vary pretty Brooklyn girl of seventeen, wi! lives with her father, a jeweller, at No, 7) Fifth avenue, that borough, has be come a audden and very enthustastie student of genealogy as a result of the letter ehe received trom Judge Alton B. Parker the Demooratio cendigete for President, in reply to « note of quity from her In regard to a relationaship between the two Ba se Ever since Judge Parker mentioned as a candidate tod Bie tures began to make dally appearance in the newspapers the Brooklyn gis bas been much struck by hig resem blance to her family, Her Letter to the Judge. . Reilly, of the West Thirtieth Stree jon, found him wandering nea: weak that hia heart action was hardly reeptible, and his extreme emaciation tae doctors to believe that he had n Foregd d to starve himself during an ineas, Durine the three days at the took he could nqt partake of solld ty-Arat street corner. Relily ar- | pyaally, without saying & word vw reated him on a charge intoxication \j and sent him to the police atation, The | One about it, she wrote Bim aie ge piatrons Appeared 5 goats be | ter on Aug. 4: +9 © waa placed in an ambulance and| < ' hurried to. Bellevue. ‘There he. waa ‘Hutson, 8 B, Parker, Becghedep | paced in the alcoholic ward and his “Dear ‘Sir: P nx our, phot: ¢ | a nosed as acute alcoholism, appeared in the papers 0 ‘He wu from convulsions shortly! Sha haa #0, iy jafter being admitted, and they did not our my & subside until his death. He was 90] jete, ‘| af wore ox my father, who was Ft e y orn tonal tend, of the Due 23 “I could not give a gu as to the; ton, and Immediate cause of dea wrote Dr.| the Mareyule ot" } ith in his report of the case. “We ‘'L Inclose my pietu: { 7 bag my 4 poring, of the man's at M history save for the three days of| taking 1 ie starvation. ‘a 'P. §.—My father & oe ai will cant Bie fader date of King. 6 3 ba ceived the following Ite ot Pat n-on-Huavon _ & PRIEST HELD ON & CHARGE QF LIGEL 1 “Dear Mise tne Pare “Thank you or ‘your note of Aug. * 4 for the pirture you sent me. first of my Ancestors America, so far as T have ogg to teace, was John married Olive Temple at bury, Mase., In 1750, “You may be able to {s any connection einen, Rev. Father Raczaszek Made Parkers and mine froin our ea arms, which shows three 4 cA * an Allegation that Interpreter a ohevron charged with a “ALTON B. PARKER." + Stietheim Had. Taken Money| upped. Sincerely yours, from Him =, ned with the Reply, |. “You have no idea how Meh hor was to get a reply,” sald to an Evening World pei at, home to-day, ‘T had been led to tage Neve that Judge Parker's family mine were related by the strong reset. bi between his photographs and my Uncle John Parker, who lives at Waite Plains. My uncle ig seventy- years old and has silvery pair, He te oy than six feet tall, and stands Mag dks and I think he and the Judge are er alike. ‘I was 0 much impressed by the Hikes nes that I sat down and wrote my letter without saying a word to sty one, The other morning at breakfast, when my ltUe brother rushed in with & letter, sa: ¥ ‘or from in? 0 Parker “my bed and aunt laughed, ae Aye t Joke. tT knew . and coat-of. relationship. lovely of the Judge to write to I know he must be awfully a time. And I am going to tor young men 1 know to vote And they'll do it, too.” The Rev.,T. Paul Racsgstek. a Roman Catholic priest, who reneraents the Po- ith Society, of No, 117 Broad atreet, in taking care of the Pollsh emigrants who land here, was arrested to-day on an order signed by Justice Bischoff, of the Supreme Court, in an action brought against bim by Julius Stterhein, an in- terpreter attached to the Bureau -of Immigration at Ellis Island, to recover $25,000 damages for the publication of an allewed libel, Father Racsazek's bail was fixed at #00, and he was detained by Deputy Sheriff Wegering in the Sheriff's office pending his giving security in that amount, Stlerhetm alleges that the priest, on July % last, sent a letter in the Polish language to Commissioner Williams, in which he #aid: junday evening I came to the Barge Office with a view of meeting psssen- gers intended for the Polish Society, There I met Mr. Steirheim, interpreter, whom I gladly invited to go with me for a glass of wine, For the fun I t90k him by the arm and along for about Afty ate when turn- ing loose he excused hi if that he could Bot Oo with me. walking 1 felt his hand rubbing agains MY pocket, contalning a pocketboo with $105 In paper money, nad tol m reac! ketbook time cow to ry a se found cow little stip of a girl with dark hair, y pretty brown eyes and an unusualiy et Pressive face For thy hi ghe has been bt A muel amateur theatricals ani n numerous cope omen | Glenwood and cleties, to which the ‘bet it Busan "After being lett by missing. Taking everything a: that nobody else by taken t money, and am making pay pacersion on cath, though I have x * «, A ‘4

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