The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-20
CRIME IN NEW YORK.
Curious Letter from a Burglar.

Recently bundle, containing a complete set
of burglars TOOLS consisting OF Al safe, door,
and store keys, IL pickoCks, % drills, 3punches,
10 hles ! bullet mould, screwdriver, cold
chisels, 6 steel hooks, used for opening safes,
fine saw, ! brace and bit, pieces OF wax for
taking impressions of keys, screw wrench, ]
steel jimmy, and package Of powder, was left
at the Sixth PreciBct Station House for Captain
Jourdan, together with the following letter.
NEW YORK, April Ito Captain Jourdan ESQ.,
always successful With the exception of once and that
being when fell into your hands and your being
fenced to ne state Prison. After serving my time
would be nobody TO Interfere with me- Started again
at my old calling, and the first burglary that in
tried again and again. and was always met by your
Sa1s ySF yo @ % me yS n or
general therefore send you through the bearer all
S be to s hnd
ON @ sat S Gpe6 on c oGr or
tools that Will raise scuttle through brick
country You viii fnd there good many Keys that
most dcn oes make you present Of a and
think you the only man worthy 10 receive them; be-
snd 0p
my viii try and al yns and
keep way Most rSsPeftnIlyE P yEERN6ER EGnT6
Examination In the Royal Insurance
Bond Robbery Case.
The examination in the case of Robert K.
Sterling, who was arrested for having in h's
portion of the 5000, 900 worth stolen from the
safee OF the Royal Life Insurance Company's
Office, No. "a Wall street, on the 10th of Decem
Der last, was continued yesterday, at the Tombs,
before Justice bowling Charles H. King testi-
fed that in January last he met the accused in
Galveston, Texas. and understood that he had
been there for two months previous as Gov.
| ernment contractor Anthony B. Mcdonald,
agent Of the company in this city, testl.
fed that he had instituted civil proceed
| ings in Canada Tor the recovery OF the stolen
I,n fnrr h11I rnAp
! mltted the robbery. Soon after the ROBBERY
| witness received from man, whose name he
| declined to give, $4,000 worth of registered
bonds. Counsel for the defense claimed that his
client had a right to know from whom the
| bonds were recovered, as they might have been
| received from the thieves Justice Bowling
stated that the detectives who had charge OF the
| case were not present, but he would give the
accused an opportunity OF elcit;ng all the in
| formation he wished ia the matter, and would
| accordingly adjourn the further hearing until
Monday, the 10th instant.
Extensive Theft of Bonds by Book
keeper.
Recently A. H. FoXcroft, book-keeper, stole
! from the safe of his employer Mr.. George II.
| Francis, doing business at No. "a Warren street,
nearly $4,000 III United States 6o1ds, with
which he decamped. Detectives Radford and
! Kelso were given the case, and succeeded 10
| recovering about $4,000 in registered bonds
| and $1,000 in money. Foxcroft has not yet been
| arrested He has been in the employ Of Mr..
| city trusted by him.
The Brooklyn GarrOting Case.
| An inquest was yesterday commenced on the
| body of Mrs. Mary Thompson, who was gar
| roted and robbed at the corner OF Lawrence
| and WilloughOy streets, Brooklyn, some nights
| since. Mrs. Thompson had slighted from DE
Kalb avenue car, and was crossing to Fulton
| avenue, when she was waylaid, robbed, and
| left insensible on the sidewalk. The inquest
| Yesterday established the fact that the assault
from which Mrs. Thompson subsequently died
was committed by three rutfians whose names
and residences had been hitherto unknoW Wn
Some new light no wever, was yesterday shed
upon the transaction, and the Coroner Is now
confident OF bringing the guilty persons TO lus
tice. The inquest was adjourned until Monday
next
stabbing ARRAY in WIIlIamsbUrg'
Last night, in Brooklyn. about o'clock, an
alteration occurred between two colored men
| named John Poole, 23 years OF age, and Prime
Hamilton, aged 81, when the latter drew 6
| knife and stabbed the tsrmer in the left groiI
and right bl east, inhicting terrible ana probably
fatal wounds. The unfortunate man was takeI
| to his residence, No. l Battle row, n. SecOnC
| street, Brooklyn, y. D., in front of which III
was stabbed. DR.. Halam attended and probeC
| the wounds. He entertained faint hopes o
Poole's recovery. Hamilton was arrested abou
o O'Clock by Officer Lee, of the FOrty-dfth Pre-
cinct and is now locked up to await the result
; of the bold deed he committed. The negr
Rogers was stabbed in the same neigh hborhood il
August last, ana his murderer is az large to day
IN. Y. Tribune today.
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