The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-26
ANOTHER GREAT BURGLARY.
A safe Blown Open and Ten Thousand Doll
lars I'm Jewelry Stolen.

A safe Blown Open and Ten Thousand Doll
lars in Jewelry Stolen.
Another OF those daring and successful burglaries
which OF late have been so frequent in this city,
where the burglars have apparently taken the
greatest risks and have escaped with their spoils
entirely undeIected, was discovered Thursday night
in the Fifteenth ward.
At an early hour Of the evening gang Of burglars
forced an entrance into the basement OF the build
ing No. GAG Broadway, occupied, together with The
first street floor, by J. Edward Bylandt auction
and commission merchant. Once within the build
ing the burglars had an unobstructed range Of the
basement and first floor, but found nothing to re-
ward them for their enterprise, all the articles
were too bulky to be safely removed. They had
then proceeded to the Office occupying the rear por
ton OF the first floor and inspected the huge safe,
containing diamond jewelry valued at $40 900, and
which fact was doubtless known to them, and these
diamonds, glittering through iron plates and
brick walls, had tempted them to their hazardous
enterprise At any rate they went provided with the
means OF working their way into the safe, and they
again incurred great risks in the method which they
adopted OF forcing it open. Filling the lock with
powder and attaching fuse, they lighted It, and as
d consequence, IN q moment the lock was torn or
and the front OF the sale was burst open. The burg
lars hastily gathered the articles of value In the
safe and made their escape entirely unob5erved.
The most remarkable events connected with this
burglary are yet to be narrated, and they are such
place 1t in the front rank Of operations or Its kind.
me store on Thursday evening was open until an
unusually late hour, 1t being Christmas Eye and
not closed until nearly ten O'Clock At that hour OF
the evening Broadway Is SILL crowded with pedes-
trian5 in that locality, and the store Is, moreover
next door to u large eating house, where pe0-
pe are constantly passing In and out. Yet
the burglars assumed all the chances and entered at
that early hour for just before eleven O'Clock, when
oicer Of the Fifteenth precint tried the basement
door, he found 1t unlasCened. Entering the building
he found the basement filed with smoke and the
smell OF powder, and going up stairs discovered the
mischief which had been done. Other policemen
tie premises and OF the neighborng building was
made but, it Is hardly necessary to add, with
out securing any OF the depredat0rs. That they
had hastily ned the moment they had accomplished
thef work plainly evident by the fact that they
had left behind them in the oilce complete outfit
OF burglars implements, such as jimmies. chisels,
wedges and saws, which they had not tarried to
pick up when the coveted Jewery was once
within their clutches. 1t was thus appar-
ent that between ten and eleven O'Clock
in the evening these daring marauders
had entered O store on the most puoc th0rOughfare
OF the city, blown open safe and made their escape
with all their valuable booty How valuable this
was and how greatly these burg ars must nave re-
oiced Ia their good fortune can be judged from the
following list OF articles stolen:--One diamond neck
lace one diamond bracelet with watch enclosed,
one opal diamond set oil pin and earrings, one enam-
elled diamond SET five gold watches and chains,
emerald and cluster diamond ring, one opal and
diamond ring, ave cluster diamond pins, two fine
stone diamond rings and three solitaire diamond
rings. full description OF all these articles has
been lett at tue detective police ONCE and most
strenuous efortS VIII BE- made 10 recover the prop
erty, and o correlative 10 capture the burglars
who thus Gouted their crime In the very eyes OF the
guardians Oi the clty's peace ana treasures.