The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-12


Fifteen Thousand Dollars, Worth Of Fur
Skins Taken from n Broadway Store.
Burglars holding high carnival in this metropolis
The petty thieves are doing their small business ON
smaller scale than usual the pickpockets do
be getting rich their spoils the confidence
men and pocketbook troopers bitterly complaining
Of the police but that their nice little games do not
attract those whose greenbacks they covet But the
burglars reapng rich harvests Not night passes
by that private dwelling is not entered, Its silver
and valuables carried Of and the carpets OF s
floors untacked packed and sent one ever knows
where or dsdaining to invade private portals the
gentry boldly break into stores and repositories OF costly
goods, and cooy walk of with their plumber, while
the police are asking one another questions a.
to who could have done the deed In yesterdays
HERALD full account OF the audacous robbery OF the
United States warehouse 1913, 395 and 397 Greenwich
street. was given ana yet before Inc ana
regard 10 IL has even partially subsidized, the police
themselves are surprised by the announcement Of
burglary Of greater extent showing more holiness Of
execution, and OF O mysterious character than
any preceding it, The facts Of this the latest burglary.
are that yesterday morning. when the porter OF the
building No. Al Broadway, which is occupied by J. M:
Oppenheim Co., opened the place for the business OF
the day. he discovered that somebody had been there.
and that that somebody or some bodies taken
the ground floor, the doors OF which race on TRINITY
place. five large casks OF undressed otter skns-nine
teen hundred skins in all-valued at $4,000
1t is SO very strange that the skins were taken Tor
the burglars pretty much they please just
Il Whatever
tanned as to the manner in which they carried on
When the store opened at seven O'Clock yesterday
morning. and the goods missed, no signs OF burglary
having been committed could be discovered in any pare
OF building The doors were all fastened as USUAL
under lock and key well as bars and bolts Besides
the missing casks were as large as ordinary tobacco
casks and each contained large number Of furs tightly
packed and they could not, therefore, by any possible
means be taken away in cart without the AID OF several
men, the noise Of whose operations In so quiet negn-
borhood as is Trinity place by night would necessarily
attracted attention. And the frs and casks wer0
taken away Detective Elder. whose services were
Yesterday in voring find clue the manner
in which the robbery committed, but was evidently
nonplusssd by the undisurbed appearance Of the win
dows and scues and DOORS through either OF which
the goods must have been taken. He had interviews
With the various officers OF the precincs
whose duty to patrol the post near the store on
Monday night and early yesterday morning; but, al
though each protested that he had faithfully paroied
| his beat and tried the doors OF the store several
times, no one man, with but one exc Keep .h:
did notice something that was unusual says that al nall
past five on Monday evening the private watchman On
his post called his attention 20 .ns aac. .nas ole ~
| one Of the windows OF bonded warehouse ao!oMnS
When Il is taken into consideration however, thu the
way and that the goods carried or the ground
floor on Trinity place. and that they could not be taken
out OF any Broadway entrance 1t dhcult 70 De zen
what that open window had TO do with the exit OF Inc
| burglars with their bulk Of booty
Two punches Of skins that stored ON the second
| floor on Monday, during the day. were found in the
Placement near the Trty place door YESTERDAY morn
r. ny ~ hook was dis urbed from the desks OF the
counting ROOM whicn are locate. asss '1s "'AS 80
! was found open on the second hoor. 8. -.
The firm have offered 81 ooS reward lor Rny nnio,m,
now surrounds the robbery That the goods were .aks
out Of the building certainty, and that poicemea
faithfully patrohng their posts co%o IV j notber
talnty Strange TO say the oftcers nave nps ~ ~
charged the burglary TO the spirits.