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Show Society Thief Steals f Nearly Half Million Dollars in Jewelry Uf Chicago, Aug. 5. After twenty-four C hours' work the police have completed mK, an inventry of the art treasures, K& bric-a-brac, jewelry, sllverplate and V other articles stolen by Jacob F. MX Guthrie, alleged society burglar and gfwi forger, now under arrest and announc- wraU ed that the plunder recovered Is e3- jwl&i timatcd to be worth $350,000. iPvl A great amount of the plunder was Pi$J found in Guthrie's home on the South W ii Side whero ho lived with his mother, P ?J sister and brothor, who is a Chicago m $ policeman. fis"3 Further investigation of the young in II man's history revealed that after ll graduating in electrical engineering n M at a Chicago technical Institute ho WiM obtained employment with an electric ,jH company. Later he was employed In "(fll the municipal laboratory. Subse- dAI quently he was appointed an instruc- vflf tor In electrical engineering at a pub- luV lie high school. Guthrie is 2G years JBe of age, six feet in height and weighs 9V 200 pounds. He is poorly dressed, al- :V though when arrested he had more ; than $10,000 on deposit In Chicago AW banks ; Dr. Leslie W. Schwab, who has been K physician for the Guthrie family, for ?BQ a number of years, talked with tho prisoner for an hour today and later " said: 'M "Guthrie is an educated fool In my AV opinion. I have known him sinco K childhood. He has always been a K bookworm. Ho read detective and rB problem novels incessantly. The ef- VB feet of this has been to create a pe- v$B culiar mental condition. He has all ST the characteristics of a confirmed t'lB kleptomaniac. I believe he has porl- I f ods when ho is montally Irresponsi- tle-" -. IB Chief of Detectives Halpln said: Mt "Beyond a doubt Guthrie has ob- talned the most valuable collection of MB stolen articles I ever saw. There are B diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds ffl and pearls worth thousands of dollars. j fl All his burglarlos were committed la ft tho home of the city's wealthiest p citizens. He read the socloty column l In tho newspapers and when he no- j tlced that wealthy women had left r homo for a few days he would break ijBl into the house and steal the most 5(V valuable articles ho could find. "Ho i V has confessed to ontering a score oi wm wealthy homes. Apparently he kept H all the things he stole which appealed n to his artistic taste, but he must have 11 disposed of a large quantity of the l El plunder." "if Hi Thousands of dollars worth of stolen articles were identified today by so- J clety women. ?l jH oo 3 Bl |