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Show WOMAN TEMPTED TO J STFALJJAMOND h Mrs. Dnrcka Wood Plans Clever ! Theft Prom Bowers's J Jewelry Store. !! i SICKNESS OF HUSBAND GIVEN AS A MOTIVE J Detective Chase Acts on a "Hunch" and Arrests 'J the Woman. II f I Detective Chaso of the local police 9 department believes in "hunches," Ho II had one about noon Saturday. It came ji upon him on a street car. It was so J persistent that it led him to pet off j the car, follow a woman to the Sierra I Nevada Lumber company's plant at 35 i South. Third West street and place her a under arrest. The woman pave tho name of Mrs. Duroka Wood, 3G years old. She is in jail charped with slcal- inp a diamond valued at .$05 from C. , B. Bowers' jewelry store, 245 South Main 6trcot, about "11 o'clock Saturday K morning. ! The "hunch." or presentiment as !' the less vulpar call it, luippened like this: Detective Chase Snturdar aftcr- noon had an appointment that called him to the neighborhood of tho Sierra ! Nevada mill at L o'clock. He also 1 had the description of the woman who j t entered tho Bowers jewelry store, and it is charped took a diamond stud f worth $05. From his car the detective i saw upon tho street a woman partially I answerinp the description. Jlr. Bow- l ers said the woman who took his dia- mond stud wore a white shirtwaist and i a dark skirt, with a belt of beads, was heavy, had black hair, and bore a I birthmark on the left check. The do- I tective could see that the woman an- 9 swered the description as to the cloth- I inp and poncral appearance, but ho I couldn't tell about the beads in tho I belt or the birthmark. Then the wo- I man's appearance stamped her as en- I tircly respectable and the detective I was "in an awful hurry to make his ap- I nnintmcnt at 1, which was an impor- I tant one. His car hurried, him by the j woman. I "Hunch" Would Not Down. But. the "hunch" pot busy and it aud the appointment kopt the detec- I tivc in one of the most undecided and uncomfortable states of mind he ever I has been in for a few seconds. The I "hunch" won, however. "Go to," said the detective to the appointment, and he stopped the car, jumped off and ' started after tho disappearing woman. xbout four blocks aw.Ty, in front of the Sierra Nevada mill, lie caught up with her. A close inspection satisfied the dotective that tho woman was the right one aud he placed her under arrest. ar-rest. She objected at first, but came with the detective finally. Mrs. Wood ndmittd her guilt, after some questioning, telling a pitiful story of the illness of her husband and subsequent sub-sequent big physicians and hospital j bills, also other "debts. The piling up of debts' against, them, she said, led to I he temptation to take tho diamond. She said she and her husband are spiritualistic workers of note. Wood has been back at his work at the Sierra Nevada mill only a week after an illness, she said. She had pone to the mill to see him when her arrest came. I Theft Well Planned. Mr. Bowers says the woman came to his store the "first time about two weeks ago and thinks tho robbeiy was well planned. Five or six times since then she came into look at jewelry, but was not shown goods usually, for ihe reason that Mr. Bowers has an order or-der prohibiting clerks from exhibiting diamonds to prospective buyers when he is uot present. Saturday morning she looked at a pair of diamond eardrops, ear-drops, Mr. Bowers showing tho goods to her, none of which appeared o please. Sho asked to be shown a diamond dia-mond brooch in the window. While Mr. Bowers' back was turned, it Is thought, she pocketed the diamond. The brooch suited her, she said, and she would bring her husband to see it that night, Then she left. Mr. Bowers, in placing the goods back in the casts, missed the diamond stud and notified the police at once. Then lie started the rounds of the pawnshops. At W. H. Puller b loan office, of-fice, 7 Last Second South street, Mr. Bowers learned that a woman answering answer-ing the description of Mrs. Wood had been there a few minutes before trying try-ing to pawn a diamond stud, but Mr. Fuller's son had refused to make the loan in the absence of his father. Mr. Bowers then went on to Undo Sum's loan office at 30 East Pirst South street, and found the liamond stud. The woman had pawned it there for $30. the manager. L Cline, making tho loan. Mr. Clirie bad taken a mental men-tal picture of the woman in the transaction trans-action and Mr. Bowers was assured that the same woman who took the diumond from his store had pawned it. She gave the name of Mrs. P. Rice; address, 335 West South T emple street. The woman's story affected the police, po-lice, but the Counfcj' Attornej'-'s office N refused to condone -the crime, and she was charged with grand larceny. Wood Visits His Wife. Wood visited his wife at the jail early Saturday evening. He says ho is unable to account for her theft of the diamond. They have been hero from Pennsylvania only two months and he says he could not establish any character charac-ter for her here, although she has shown herself to be a good woman. They have not been married long. He has been working for the Sierra Nevada mill for $10 a "week and received his weekly pay Saturday. He said he was down to 20 ccntB when he got Wb pav In regard to his illness he said mill work is too heavv for-him and he can hardly stand it. Prom the jail he went to have a talk with Mr. Bowers about The robbery. The caBe is unusual. |