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Show JEWEL THEFT IS UNSOLVED Small Army of Detectives Detec-tives Are Now at WTork Trying to Find a Clew to the Disappearance of $275,000 Narragansett Pier. R I.. Aug 1 I The disappearance of $275,000 worth I of jewels from two residences in the summer colony was unexplained today, to-day, though a smaii army of detectives detec-tives have been at work on the mystery mys-tery since last Sunday night. Mrs. John H. Han.in who sustained more than one-half of the total loss, was indisposed as a consequpence of the disturbance of her household combined with the serious illness of her husband The latter was said to be showing some improvement. According to Charles C. Rumsey: the original estimate of the losse6 at his cottage was much too 'small I and the figure Is now placed at 125,- j 000. report that Mr Rumsey had dismissed dis-missed the detectives who have been in his emplO could not be confirmed. Under Surveilancc Boston, 'Jug 1. Representatives of a private agency have uuder survell-ance survell-ance here an elderly respectable ap lK?aring man. whom they suspect of being concerned in the quarter million dollars jewelry robberies at Narra-gansett Narra-gansett Pier, while they do not believe be-lieve that the man has the Jewels actually in his possession, they are of the opinion that he knows where they are hidden and Is only Waiting a favorable time to recover them ami escape on a trans-Atlantic steamer. "He is so carefully surrounded as to foil any attempt that he ma m(V3 to get out of the city," said one of the detectives The man, it is said, has served sen tences In western prisons Recently he lived in Providence, but came to Boston shortly after the thefts at N'ar-ragansett N'ar-ragansett Pier were committed. |