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Show & Hi TRAILED UK I ' POLICE Of OGDEN ' FOR MONTHS I J Following a conversation overheard Ht E in s restaurant nearly two months I ago. when a transient resident of Og :i den, MrB Mary Deford. told John 9 Hamner that she was prepared to f turn over the diamonds Btolen from m him late In July, when he was attacked at-tacked b.v tw0 'hugs on Twenty fifth I itreet hill, the police and sheriffs I force traced the woman through a dorcn cities of the west In the hope of arresting the thugs and recovering the diamonds, only to conclude, with In the past few days, that tlie woman knows nothing of the affair, but had planned to get the reward of ?100 in c66 &ny of her suppositions were found to be correct At her suggestion, John Hamner deposited de-posited an agreement with a check for $1000 In the First National bamk of this city The agreement was to the effect that Mrs. Itefotd should rs ccive the rheck for the thousand dollars dol-lars If the diamonds were returned to Hsmncr before August 34 The note was as follows: "The First National Bank Ogden. I Ltr.h Enclosed herewith by check Mj f for Siooo to be held by you until on J V or before August 20 Same to be paid to Mary Poford when two dia- I r-'onds obtained from mc by robber sre returned. Both stones are to be Atm. properly Identifier by me before 'J n.oney If. paid Fxpense money to the amount of $250 if necessary may Tito be deducted trnm 'n amount U (Signed) "JOHN H HAMNER, "MARY DEFORD." Within a day after the contract and check were deposited Mrs. Deford left for the northwest followed by De I tective ;orce Wardlaw, who traced her to St Anthony. Idaho Paul and i Boise, but returned to Ogden when I the woman left for Seattle Nothing that she did hi the cities visited by 1r HofptJv-o inHipatH nnv L-nnu-lpHcp k r of the thieveB or the diamonds When m the detective left, the actions of th ' woman were watched by the police of B other eities and reports v. ere mude to I, Ogden She returned to Ogden re-SB re-SB r cently and from here went to St. Lou-k Lou-k 1b She has made no effort to claim B the money or return the stones m I On the day following the announce ' ment by John Hamner, that he would fhe $1000 for the return of his dlam j onds without questions, Man Deford i communicated with him and made an appointment to meet him In a res taurant Here the woman told Ham ! ner that she knew who had robbed him of the diamonds and she said she could restore them She wanted to tta be certain however, that she wouM 11 get the reward, and told Hamner that -W was the reason she had met him to flti discuss the situation. In the conver-Jjjjj conver-Jjjjj I eat Ion, she hinted that some young men of the city had turned the trick j and she mentioned two or three. Shu suggest the agreement be deposited In the bank A great part of this conversation was overheard Detectives Wardlaw and Plncock asked Hamner to corn to the police station and Hamner reluctantly re-luctantly consented He was persua ded to tell the police and Sheriff Thomas DeVine the substance of his conversation with the woman, hi though he did not wish to do so. He if wsb interested in the recovery of his diamonds, he said, and feared that tha activity of the authorities would frighten the thieves who would leave with the plunder. He was told by the police, however, that all arrangements would be made to Insure the restoration of the diamonds diam-onds and also the capture of the f thug6. When Hamner was given this assurance, he entered into the plan- From the tlmo the woman was pointed out until she left the city about ten days later, a representative I of either the sheriff's office or police force was upon her trail and so care fully did the detective's v. ork that the woman never suspected 6he was watched When she and Hamner made the agreement in the bank. Detectives De-tectives Plncock and Ward law, and Sheriff DeVine were at hand Copies of the agreement and checks were Becured. When the woman left, Chief W I. v'Jl Norton instructed Detective Wardlaw to follow her There was nearly a ." month of watching to be done before the check was paable and no pains were spared to keep in touch with the woman. At St Anthony the woman visited a daughter In the Idaho reformatory In the other cities, she failed to do the slightest thing that would lead th.j officers to the conclusion that ahe knew the thieves or the whereabouts ,J of the gems When she returned to Ogden about two weeks ago the police and sheriff were convinced that the woman was relying only upon guess work. Sh.e hinted at enough suspects so that If any of those named were arrested and charged with the theft, she could jl : demand the reward i According to the polire Hhe was II clever enough in her deal with Ham ner to have It understood that the reward was to be paid to her. if she could show that she was even indirectly indi-rectly responsible for the apprehension apprehen-sion of the crooks and the recovery of the stone6. The pollen declare that she knew so many characters who might have done the robbing that she could almost claim the money if any of those hinted at were arrested in connection with the robbery U5 At the time the agreement between Hamner and Mrs Deford was mad-, the woman wbb living In a boarding jr: house on Twenty-fourth street On the night of the robbery, the thugi ran along Adams avenue to Twenty- isn fourth street and were lost to eight In the vicinity of the rooming house. If : This fart strengthened the suspicions of the police that the woman knew much about the robbery. According 91 1 to the police now, however, their o vestlgatlons have proved that the men did not go to the house on the night In question The woman was also suspected of , being connected with the blackmailing blackmail-ing cases of last spring. Her cfever- ff ebs and some of the remarks mad to Hamner lead the detectives to think Bhe might know much about the case, but the police now claim that she knows nothing of the affair but what the police and others know Additional Information concerning the woman was secured by i hlel w I. Norton, from Bert Anderson, re-1 cently held to the district court for trial on the charge of burglary in the second degree. Anderson is a son inlaw in-law of Mrs Deford Without difficulty, difficul-ty, the chief secured from Anderson Information upon which he partly ba scb his claims that the woman atl suspicions regarding the theft of the diamonds and planned to reap a mon etary harvest in case her suspicions proved to be well founded. Although the first clue hfl proved a failure, the police and sheriff are hop ing to arrive at results by another route. |