European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1965 the stars and stripes Star of india9 loses its glitter for 3 editors note ten Allan Dale a High weeks 24 jewels were stolen from a new York my within a few three suspects were in Cus but the Chsn continued to and before the re covery of nine of the a jams it involved a bizarre game of cops and suspects seeking to outwit a mystifying a mysterious yacht and a Deal Between the suspects and the new York District up staff Cor respondents Charles Taylor in and Joseph Breu and Myron Feln Silbur in new York have pieced together the Story in the following team new York up the Star of India Sapphire is bigger than a Golf officially its value is but the figure is Nhsn Inglem be cause the Stone is it is the biggest Cut Star Sapphire known to it was discovered three centuries ago in steal it and you have a White elephant on your it could be Cut Down into four or even six Small but that Rould be they might be Worth the whole is far More valuable than the sum of its that was not taken into account by the thieves who broke into the american museum of natural history an Central Park West two Days before the burglars took the Star and 23 not much lesser they would have been belter off museums with some of the less conspicuous the disposal problem posed by the Star of India explains much of the shenanigans of the last 10 events bounced from new York to Miami and Back and and involved actress Eva Gabor and a blondes a game of cops and Rob Bers on the Sands of Miami and a  Mustbe forgiven Deal with the District the cast is As bizarre As the Case Jack Murt the surf Murphy of a Clown in Aqua shows for Florida tour he has Buck Teeth and plays i Good game of Tennis and a fair he used to hang out in miamis stint shirt school dropout who once admitted looting the school lock ers of his louts he is the alleged brain behind the jewel and Roger of Merl wide eyed and hand charged with having served As Lookout while his companions looted the which is better known for dinosaurs than for its All were the Beac boys of Miami make their living carting lounge umbrellas and cushions for the patrons of Plush resort the tips Are said to make the Job some of them Are respectable married trying to raise a ally and meet a some Are Sun bronzed and and Are especially attractive to the lonely women who find time on their hands in the Job was but the burglars were for Economys the museum had dropped its practice of of King a guard overnight in the Morgan Hall of gems and the burglary system was the jewels were not the burglars entered the museum through a fourth floor win Dow and used a janitors Squeegee to shatter the stars Glass display they left behind More costly sapphires and More easily disposed of diamonds and some smear the theft occurred either thursday or Day by slur Murphy and Kuhn had been arrested in Murphys s278a month Miami Clark was arrested in new police sold a resident of the Cambridge House hotel had overheard the three after the theft occurred and the men checked had reported her Janet a Secretary for a Wall Street insurance brokerage also lived in the Cambridge which eaten to residents As Well As during she had be said she didst know what it con1 emerged from an the suspects were not unknown to several weeks jumped into the car and sped after a a police Cruiser forced the car to the after a jewel theft in i As the two were being ques earlier in the a Edward yacht showed up at by mind and was searched by nothing wife of a textile Tele phoned her Home had been robbed of she two weeks Worth of jewelry had been taken from the Jacobs none was Murphy and Clark were Bonne Lou Sutera committed suicide was among the five men aboard were Kuhn and nine Days the yacht appeared at another Caribbean five men and two girls were while the yacht was a Large jewel robbery was reported in a hotel on Miami police said they had been keeping an Eye on Kuhn be cause he acquired a 38foot Schooner and a White which he paid for with when he had in Cash in his he was not in new a grand jury took testimony in the Star of India the Federal govern ment charged the suspects with transporting stolen property across state the grand jury returned indictments Churg ing grand evidence required a Federal commissioner said the Federal charge would nol stick unless the government Ullh evidence and Murphy charged with breaking and without the stolen police could not bring burglary the two were released in a few weeks Kuhn and Clark were Back in a new York by this Murphy has been identified by a clerk in the staid Algonquin hotel in Manhattan As the Man who robbed him of in a Holdup on july i and Eva the actress told police that Murphy and j Kuhn were the two men who pistol whipped her and robbed t of Worth of uninsured ewes at the Racquet club hotel n North near a year assistant District attorney Faulce Nanjari asked the court to set Ball at this Nadjari said if has funds of ill less nature that can cached wherever portable wealth May bails of 00 for Murphy and Kuhn were set Clarks was put at one Day Kuhn decided i he told his the Awyer told the District Nadjary and three new York detectives new to new York newspapers got wind of the arriving in Kuhn went o work on the he Iro mused to have the jewels Jack in a few on the promised a pack when they got aboard an Airliner at Miami Airport and re with the press Kuhn had made Contact with the per son who had the by this the detectives had occupied 10 or 11 shortly before 3 a phone Coll the jewels would be in locker toll at the downtown trailways bus new York detective Richard a line went opened the removed a soggy Chamois and found nine of the wrapped in wet tissue among them was the Star of not among them was the 100carat Delong reported to be Worth at least As the largest Star Ruby in the also missing were 14 other the bus station locker was signed extradition they didst bother to bring Tage on the night to new want any need for said were going right on and so they they were released under Back they came on 14 this time to plead not guilty in criminal court on Bonnie Lou a Golden blonde took an overdose of barbiturates in her on bedroom Lara to the Eye of Florida i miss Sutera was the common Law wife of Jack both they had lived together for is she had at tended a wedding reception the Day before with she left behind a note which mystified the and still does Darling Jack i guess this is what you so this is the last thing i can do for i love Murphys lawyers were in court this time arguing that the search warrant used to seize evidence from the Cambridge House hotel has been illegally if they could prove their charges against the men would have to be in two detectives cruising in a Wel Todo neigh boyhood came upon a they recognized it had belonged to Bonnie Lou fifteen minutes the police Murphy and Clark of reporters and photographers discovered Kuhn and a Man who identified himself As Charlie Smith in Kuhns apart ment on the 15th floor of the Brickell town House Kuhn and a policeman boiled out of the ran Down the ire escape and re Exir Tori found them in the dunes Motel at North Miami there was an Al night stakeout by reporters hid in car ried Walki talkies even pulled the ignition wires of cars rented by the police to prevent another but police let it be rumoured that a talkative detective was at the with the press distract Eva Gabor robbed rented on every Day someone had come to the station and deposited a renting it for another 14 missed one the Day Bonnie Lou Sutera ended her he kept the locker that Day by paying the Back 25 cents to n desk the clerks cant recall who supplied that Back once again in a new York Murphy and his companions watched while District attorney Frank Rogan displayed the gems atop a Black borrowed from a the museum expressed its the terms of the Deal with Kuhn came out the three sus will be permitted to plead guilty to a reduced charge of third degree the sentencing Ludge will be told of their under the Cir they could get As Kuhn and a detective leaped Little As a oneyear jail sentence from a second Noor Balcony to a with other charges from Concrete Patio and slipped off i earlier cases it 11 it could be some time before the Beac boys get Back to the to the Miami Beac boys fac Law trial by the theft of m jewels to new York Ait from my it Roger Clack Aad Jack a thata