The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-10-26
HOW TO KILL A BURGLAR.
AN ITILItN Plants 4 BATTERY nm
HIsD ms WINDOV
E,as, Months of Crime pryinr open n SIM.

Eight Mouths Of Crime Frying Omen n st,,
ter at NIihniRht-BN piosion OF n n Tnfr-r,,
Macbiuc-A Thicf without Brain. i,-
wnrrantable Proceeding Of Coroner Ftvup.
About IL O'Clock Monday evening Ons,r
Crecden oil the Eighteenth Precinct, While On tnt
rost, on Third avenue, heard tho report ot pra.
when seemed to come from tue direction Of Ta,n.
ty-thrd street lilo went u ere. nut all w.g or,,
and he could iir 10 traces If 10 report Al 4
o'clock yesterday NOR ing however, man ca,1. m
oGccr Levy and told lin tlit Tic body OF e toan
was lying in tie yard adjoining tho warts'op a
Joseph Agosino, In East TWcn'y-,hirJ street No.
Third avenue. Tho ,nlcor went there aud found
tho dead body Of young man about ~ Yeas III
lying on tho ground with tito
TOR OF ms uEAD COMPLETELY NOW ovV
BY gun which was fastened To- the shutLois " the
workshop. The body was afterward idcn,,6ud 50
George Twecdle, residing with his mother auJ
sister at 81 East Twenty. third street.
Daring the last eight months ihreo different At
tempts had been mado TO plumber Mr.. Agosiuo'a
WORKSHOP. On ono occasion tho thieves bad CARED
OF considerable property As Mr. Agosuno did tot
live on the premises lie determined to invent
method for protecting his property II. loaded y
Springfield musket with slugs
ALMOST TO rus MuszLB,
and fastened the stock into block Of wood 20 mas
OF about sixty degrees string was attached 10 tho
shutter, which passed over pulley on The bloet u
wood and then made fast to the trigger, so that
any one pulling the shutter from the outside would
discharge the gun, the muIlle 81 which IVES an1
about six inches from the shutter. He fixed " 'hs
internal machine about a week ago. but noth,ae oor
cured until Monday night, when he len the work.
shop about O'Clock, after securely fastening both
doors aud windows. On MONDAY night t'le thw' le-
turned. pullcd the shutter, and shot OF bia ONul
bond. -,-.,
appearance. The dead was bng On hs hlek
With his arms folded and the TOP 81 ne h,an con-
and parallel to n, his blood and %
brains BEING SCATTERED ALL ovER TuB yAas
BY lis side was a black felt hat and small chiset
the former completely rddlei with shot. bciN,th
The shut :ers a small broomstick was iivcI IL was
evident that the thief had been trying force oven
the shutters and had fred OF the gun. 80 irrren.
dous was the force Of tue cNnlo-ion mat n lad
driven hoio about two incles In dnmebt Gear
through the shutter, whicl IL an iHci ulans. nd
through n bar NJ wood across the shutter about IN
inch aud quarter in thickness. the hoe wa 20
clearly cut as Il cannon bi had passed. ti,rra!h
IT, while on the iron shutters on The oppnstr @al,
about thrty1yc f'ct from the window tho prilt' of
three sugs were distinctly visible. The body Nhon
foun was carefully laid out The hands wcr, io,tod
upon the breast. Il was evident that T@eod', vas
NOT ALONE AT the TriE OF ms DEArr,
"A he could not Lave fallen in the way his body vas
| found. 1t is hignly rrobao moreover, that IN
other man waa prting open the shutter, ahh tnat
Tweedle was STOPPING down ~hon the gun w " ~.
ns the charge had entered his forehead AMI paced
| upward through tile ton Of his s'ull. II h' h9f
| leen using the broomstick limsel', he would not
| have been struck Nv the Shots ~ would rIOUUdy
have been standing with Iis side turned To tht ~
dow whereas the appc france of his face 'hoNei
| that he Was standing with his taco turuet iul to
ward the shutter at the time OF lis dc1'n, oLt siug
| haying passed straight through hi9 eye.
The Workshop IL . small, une.stoiy brick hn'ldng,
close to the northeast corner Of rwenty-tlnri sirrt
| and TlIird avenue. Next door is the iactcrJ VI mn
h Co.. manufacturers OF BATH brick, m urtrtuC h
| is Murphy's blacksmith shop. A StN &c porter w.
tied tho place yesterday and Cleaned the following
| particulars.
| Twoedle il well known in the ncghborhooi nav ps
| worked az two or three places. About two NonN
ago he working ut A. :. Cimeron's. IN Twenty
| third street. and since thcu 1T tie brass foIm.
| mill. corner of seventh street and First n''nue.
At one time he worked n pfs, which - ucAt DIOR
| TO hcoStinns workshop. An his former employers
| say that they did not know anytOiuS AGAINST ms
| character, excest that ho was weak mncroi aud
| might
EASILY DE- LED INTO Evil WAYS
On Monday afternoon Twocdlc. In company
| with two otaer men, went To l!id's factory hhd
| stopped there Ehont an hour talking TO the hands
employed there, Will thcie. enc of the men hainei
| Ro eri Jcilcntt wrote Tire names o. the party ona
shed roof al the back OF tho building, with I"Cv
| Of cHalk, Ike this: