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Show Police Have Jewel Before Loss Reported Alleged Thief Under Arrest Few-Hours Few-Hours Afterward Diamond Taken From Anson Home. Three days before James II. Anson, secretary sec-retary of the Carstensen & Anson Music company, reported tlte theft of a $300 diamond dia-mond pin from his residence, tho police had located the pin, and within live hours of the report Detective Chnso had R. A. Mattcon In Jail, accused of the crime, Mattcson admits pawning the bit of Jewelry. Jew-elry. Ho Is a paperhanger and was working work-ing in the Anson residence, -IC-I Second street, when the pin disappeared. The pin Is the property of Mr. Anson. It cost SWO. It wns in a room of Mr. An. son's residence while Matteson was at work hanging paper In the house. Then It wa missed. Search failed to reveal whither It had gom-. Meantime Detectives Chase and Raleigh ran across a diamond pin In a locul pawnshop, pawn-shop, during an inspection of the shop's reports. They looked at tho Jewel and inquired in-quired who had pawned It. The circumstances circum-stances of the case were suspicious. Detectives De-tectives began to look at the record of tho pawner. R. A. Matteson. Thoy found who ho was, where ho worked and where ho lived. Yesterday morning Mr. Anson reported that his pin had vanished Asked concerning con-cerning who was in the house ut the tlmo. h told of the pnperhanger. This, of course, confirmed tho suspicions of tho officers. Chnso looked up Matteson nt once and placed him under arrest. Ho found the man working In a Fourth South street residence w At the police station Matteson admitted having pawned the pin. Ho strenuously denied that he had stolen It. Rut ho hud no explanation lo give as to how it had come Into his possessslon. Matteson has worked In the cltv for some time. When he was taken to police headquarters he came with a roll of wall paper and a measuring edge, with which he had been working. Ho will be arraigned ar-raigned probably today, on a chargo of grand larceny. |