The Dawson News

WOMAN TRAPS GEM THIEF
MRS. SOMERS CAUSES THE CAPTURE OF FRANK GEISE.
She Removed Her Diamonds When He Complained They Made Him Dizzy.

NEW YORK.—The resourcefulness of a woman, deceived by the man she believed was to marry her, effected the capture today of Frank A. Geise, wanted in Chicago and New York for forgeries, just before he had time to blow out his brains. He had robbed Mrs. Freida Somers of $10,000 worth of diamonds.

Geise spent last evening with Mrs. Somers, and they had a bottle of champagne at her apartments for supper. Geise raised his glass in a toast and said laughingly:

"Take off those diamonds: they're so bright they make me dizzy."

"They'll be just as bright on the table as on my neck," protested Mrs. Somers, spreading them out before him.

"That's true," admitted Geise; "put them in this," and he drew a small chamois bag from an inner pocket and passed it across to her.

Mrs. Somers placed the diamonds in the bag and laid it on her dressing table. It was there this morning, or one like it, but the diamonds had gone. In some way Geise had effected a substitution.

At the discovery of her loss she went into hysterics, and the appearance of two detectives, who had been shadowing Geise did not reassure her. At that moment the telephone rang. The evil genius of Geise had prompted him to call up just at the wrong moment.

"Hush," said the woman to the detectives, "here's your man," and then into the telephone, "Where are you, Frank?"

Mrs. Somers whispered the address, and while the detectives rushed to the place she kept him hanging to the other end of the wire until he was caught.

When placed under arrest Geise tried to shoot himself, but the detectives were too quick for him.

"I always kept ready to go," Geise told them. "I knew it could not last long, but it has been high flying while it did."

The diamonds were recovered and identified.

Geise, who comes from Baltimore, was recently employed by the Hurley Machine Company, and confesses that last October he forged the name of Neil C. Hurley to a check for $2,900, which was cashed for him by the National Bank of the Republic in that city. Then he fled to San Francisco and later came here. The Hotel Astor and the Waldorf both have his bad checks for $150, and both have been looking for him. He was held in $10,000 bail.