Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1913 — FIND WARSHIP LOOT [ARTICLE]

FIND WARSHIP LOOT

U. S. Officers Recover $12,000 Stolen From Louisiana. Detroit Jewel Theft Causes Puzzle— Police Believe Substitution of Paste Glues Occurred Before Robbery. Jersey City, N. J.—A chest containing |4,800 in cash is in the possession of deputy United §tates marshals here, and the seizure is alleged to be part of $12,000 which several petty officers of the battleship Louisiana stole while the vessel was in New York harbor. _ The money was found in a search of the house occupied by connections of George P. Davis, who was a commissary steward on the Louisiana. Davis is alleged to be one of the conspirators and has.been under court martial, according to local federal officials, at Norfolk, Va. Detroit.—A thief entered the home of C. F. York in this city recently and stole a quantity of jewelry. The owner of the articles- placed their value at $3,000. Later it was discovered the jewels were paste. Mr. York Insists the thief made the substitution since the burglary, but the police believe the jewels were stolen once before and that the first thief, to insure his escape, put paste in place of the real gems. A man giving the name of L. W. Hazzay and describing himself as a waiter from New York, has confessed, .the police say, that he took the jewelry from the York home, but says he did not manipulate the stones. In fact, he is much incensed at the way >A* wu cheated. All the stolen, articles have been recovered, part being found in pawnshops and the remainder in Hazzay’s room. “I am certain the jewels never were stolen before," said Mr.' York. "It is absurd to think they could have been taken, the stones changed and then returned without our knowing it" However, the police are of the opinion the substitutions bad taken place before Hazzay appeared on the scene.

Sunday, he traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, sent-back to New York city for Miss Mary Flood, his sweetheart, to join him in California, married her somewhere in the state, became a father and worked for several years in- this city and San Diego. Yet he has no recollection of any of these events. Central station office detectives say it is one of the most remarkable cases of aphasia that has ever been brought to their attention. There is no charge against Ryan for deserting his wife and child, living at San Diego. He was cross-questioned at considerable length by detectives, but could not be shaken in any of his statements, some of which later were verified. He was identified by half a dozen men who knew him here and in San Diego before his return of memory. Ryan told the detectives that when he left New York he was employed as a hall boy at the Manhattan club, and that W. E. Guerin and General Burbank, millionaire members of the club, had given him money to go to Phoenix, as they thought he had tuberculosis.