Show J JAPANESE THIEF I Ir r MAnE BIG HAUL Invaded In a Residence Escaped Bullets and Secured Jewels Valued at 1000 OLICE POLICE P FINALLY GOT HIM RECORDS R OF THE DEPARTMENT T SAVED San Francisco Francisc April 24 Here is the theory story st ory of or one lucky Japanese thief who escaped es the bullets of tho the military au authorities th ran the gantlet of the guard with wi th his plunder consisting ng of or diamonds and an d jewels valued at 1000 and then fell into in to the hands of the police Some time during the awful fire tire that raged ra ged during Thursday and Friday nights ni nier the residence of Mrs R F Beam Beamer er at 1415 Jones street was looted Dia Diamonds Diamonds monds sn and family jewels disappeared and an d when Sirs Mrs Beamer Be mer knowing that her herme home ho hoco me could not be saved returned to re recover recover rever cover co ver her valuable property it was all allne gone go neThe ne The robbery was reported to Captain of Detectives Burnett yesterday yest and Do De te Coleman Colem n was at once assigned to search se seh arch for the stolen jewelry Last L night he h e found It all aU where it ft id ld been car carried ried n ed by the Japanese looter and con concealed concealed ce aled In his home at California street st reet The Japanese who gave his ante nani n as an S So was arrested by De Do te Coleman and Is now held heM a civil prisoner p charged with grand larceny Police Records Saved Cheering news n ws was received I at af police headquarters h relative to the valuable records re cords of ot the police Identification bu bureau reau re au Photographs measure neasure measurements ments menta m and the record of ot every criminal In the city and many eastern and for foreign foreign eign ei prisoners have been saved from the ravages ra of ot the flames which swept through th rough the hall ball of justice When it became apparent that every ever thing th ing in the building was doomed to de destruction destruction ruction st Detective Sergeant Thomas Gibson G Gin ibson took charge of the work of sav say ing in g the tho records of the Identification bu bureau reau re au They rhey were carried out into Ports Portsmouth Portsmouth mouth m square and when whon during the night ight n the fire raged so o fiercely that bodies odies b of the dead In the square were scorched s ssi Detective Det cUve Gibson on and his as assistants stants si stood by with wet blankets to cover over c the valuable papers and photo photographs graphs g which not be duplicated Were Found Intact The officers were driven from the square quare s so at last but before going the rec records o were covered with fireproof mateal mate rial ri al and an inspection made on the or der d di er of Chief of Police Pollee Dinan this morn Ing i ng showed that all were intact Property Clerk Dinan Oman has hopes that tha the t he valuables In his department are safe The T he attaches of his office placed every thing hing t possible immediately in the steel stee vaults aults v vi These receptacles seem to b be intact i Outside the vaults are warped and a nd twisted by the heat but the hope hop of o f the property clerks rests on the fact fac that hat t the vaults are said to be fireproof |