CREDIT BUYER IS CAPTURED.
Kenneth Curran Ordered Diamond
Ring Charged to Jay H. Neff.
Buying a $22.50 diamond ring at Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co.'s last night and asking that it be charged to the account of Jay H. Neff, landed Kenneth Curran at police headquarters in a jiffy.
The credit man of the firm was on the lookout for some one who bought $9.33 worth of books last month on Mr. Neff's account, and when the charge slip for the ring came up through the tube the bookkeepers notified C. H. Haire, assistant superintendent for the firm. Mr. Haire went to the jewelry counter with an officer and young Curran was arrested. He gave his age as 17 years old, but looks older. He admitted getting the books last month and said he sold them to a second-hand dealer.
At the station Captain Whitsett and Inspector Ryan at once recognized Curran as having been under arrest for the theft of a suit of clothes from the Besse-Avery store November 14. At that time he wore a pair of trousers and a fireman's badge, and represented himself as a city fireman.
Curran's mother and a young sister are expected home today from Minneville, Mo., where the former has been working on a farm. His parents were separated, Curran says, when he was 8 years old, since which time he has lived with his grandmother, Mrs. Mary A. Sutton, 1911 East Eleventh street. He claims to have been singing lately at some of the local show houses. Three years ago he worked for the Swift Packing Company. At that time he received a severe blow on the back of his head from a falling truck. Whether or not that may have affected him to do irrational acts has never been considered by his family.
