New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-07

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The Story Of Burglary.
In October last, was invited by friend Of
mine, whose daughter was abontto be married,
to goto London to attend the wedding. He had
taken large house III one of tie streets leading
ont of Pieeadiy (Which / viii call Folkestone
street( and was SO good assto offer me q room for
Preached London about Il week before the i'm
NJ portant day and TO those who know anything
about weddings need not say that this week
was IL busy one. The presents were numerous
and consisted chiefly Of ieBelry the rousseau
was informed could not be surpassed; but Of that
am not qualified norris ii any part Of my pur-
pose to speak Z nm only concerned to state that
The presents of jewery were numerous and valu-3
ables Al they were brought in by messenger
after Messenger from tie various jewellers shops
they were placed for inspection by visitors, with
other presents, in the front dTawiug-rooin, which
z may observe, had four large windows all look
1ng into the main street.
The marriage was fxed for d Tuesday, and on
the atarday previous, my friend gave dinner
party to relations on both sides, and a good many
peopia were invited t05come in Che evening to in
spect the presents and the rousseau. IS it was
Saturday night, everybody departed shortly after
twelve o'clock and BIZ one o'clock, every light
was extinguished. n D suppicion of robbery seems
TO hare entered into the head of any of US, and
the Jew ery and other valuable presents were let
exposed id the front drawing room all that night
But on the next night, the groom of the chambers
did seem 20 hare q little anxiety at having so
much valuable property exposed in SO open q
manner, and he communicated his uneasiness to-
mis- mistress. The most costly of the jewels were,
~ accordance with his suggestion, placed in Ss
large Jewell h01l and deposited at bedtime in his
zaistress's bedroom. So little real anxiety, how
eyer was felt BY any one that rnagnif dress
ang-case and dressing bag both with gold fittings
Of very gTeat value, were left, with numero6gs
other articles, in one Of the back drawing rooms
even the key Of either being turned ia the
lock. on that Sunday night, or rather on tie
Monday morning, the house was robbed. .
Y viii be well perhaps, before proceed
5arther 70 "a Narrative, that should give al
general idea OF the number and position of the
rooms on The three principal floors oF The house
On the ground floor there were diningroo1n
breakfa strooms and nl0rningroom On the first
hnor, there were three drawi1grooIas ana be.
sides these there was, built out Of The back, and
2ylng beyond the servants staircase the bedroom
and dressingroem inhabited by my friend and lis /
gile and il which the Jewels had been deposited
w Ine second ho9r 9Yere four bedrooms and a +
nFessnsgroon, occapiea By diGerent members of +
ths family and myself,
vent to bed ab5tt eleven o'clock, and must a
have slept soundlg for about four oF5ire hours VI
when was awakened by the violent barking Of a Il
little dog which lshad id the room with me-. j II
dooked we, and saw Che door Of my bedroom open Il
gradually and & bright light shine through IT, II
called OUT at once h a loud voice tEiereg1i
NheH the door was quickly md quietly shnt with
out an answer being returned. g never. dreamed
81 Tlleyes for had been similarly disturbed Che
night before; my impression was that some
servant mad mistaken the room, the house being
strauge to all the inmates struck a light. ana, E
cooking at ny watch, found the time to be four
0seloeiIs 81 Al tue Ilistenaa intentEy, but soon,
finding that al vas quiet turned on my side, and
tried 70 got to sleep again.
Inns however, proved 10 be impossible, and l
~ no more sleep that night. About ave O'Clock
4 heard some noiae In the next bedroom to my
own, and concluded that my neighbor was st7r-
ring !: and at half-past iYe,I heard somebody
stumble over box ia the passage outside my
door hnt llG-sfiil aeH yer occurred 40 me to think
ut n f7rRt
preparation for the wedding, some servant had Fl
neen compelled to rise earlier than usual and
had stumbled IN going down stairs ia the dark
s9nt as 4 coula no1 get to sleep, determined to-
get up and AZ ten minutes to six o'clock by nv
watch, left my room TO 80 To another al the
end of the passage. The moment left my door
SOW man standing ten yards from me. The
fellow who was about ak feet two inches in
height and m0st powerfully made Was listeningll
at the dDBr Oh bedroom close to mine and had u
MS hand on the handle when first saw him but
1ne moment he caught sight OF me. he made d 4
1ash eisaer to ooas me OF to get by me, don't 4
know Which; and seeing this, / drew back, and *
atl92Tea nina 10 pass. The next moment, i gave 4
The alarm, and the household was speedily Fl
zronseds An attempt at pursuit was made; but
tae minute or two which had elapsed enabled the /
BURGLARS to make good their retreat ana they got
siasrs,gay without nlallsstAtion,
me next thing to lie done was to ascertain the
extent Of our losses; aud a very casual inspection
decided this, Everything OF silver or gold in the
Ind carried off butonly suehaFtices as we9e very
4softabie; plate they never sought to touch, al
though some was lying about in tho different
They had made eileen sweep Of the most valu-
ahles o the presents iet # in the drawing
they had Wrenehed off aud carried away all the I
gold tops fT0In The fittings 9R the dressing case
and the dressing-hag; they had entered two bed |
rooms on the second d1Or, and @taken valuable |
propeft tEoia each, while the Inmates were sleep
sing bue, most fertanatefy. they had mssedthe I
Sreal pfa1e-5he le8els4rt o obtain which the /
burglary mad been plasned. They had never |
Imagined atthe head of the family would sleep
IL bedroom beyond theaergaAtis staircase, and
so maze no atGenps 10 explore IN that direction.
Iheg must haye reasoned that the best bed
rooms in which alone tie Jewels were likely h
be, would be those to the iroat on lie second
door, over the drayying,room and about these
they must hays htng forlpags iiAEhe hone Of nets
ting their prize, ening at the doors e. lie breath
ing of the sleepers, entering and Tfing the reons
of those who slept most heavily, and WAITING fai
an opportunity Of safely entering Tile others. nv
x0on, After the barking of my dog, thegs did mi
again attempt to approach. But although tbe
Jewels were safe, we found, upon inspection. that
they had carried on property to. d very consider.
abs amount; indeed, the loss We found, could
pounds.
OF course, the first thing to be don9 now was
20 send for che police This was done at once:
and as was the only person who had actually |
seen aHybady in the house. received "a visit, 10 ali
incredible short space 0f time, from Iaspectorl
E9aiffield-so vail call hini--of ihe q dVis0a. /
Inc sIfeetor was 2 bitf iait 4ialtea man. who
looked a good deal younger than his real age, but
who seemed capital man OF business, whatever
his nge may be. His first question was What
sort Of man was il yon saw on the landing, sir2i
I said at once that had seen a iaiti dark man \
but that had not seen him sufficiently we'll to he
able TO describe his features accurately The III. 4
ssos unused over my description for half 4
and then called on p9s for 4 detailea de, 4
F8i3 Of every article OF property which lad
benn sts5en5 aud ta probable value, j 4ad scarcely
gel hay ay E9rongh the list when knock was I
beard Of s4a dagE ana Sergeant Wood as will