The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-15
THE CLEVELAND ROBBERY.
$4,000 Worth Of Watches and Other Arti
cles nt0Ieu.

s@O,ooo Worth cf Watches and Other Arti-
cies stolen.
The Cleveland Herald of the 14th inst. has
the following particulars of the robbery re-
ported previously by telegraph
We record this morning the heaviest robbery
ever perpetrated in this city. Between the
hours of and 10 o'clock Sunday night, the
jewelry store of N. Il. Crittenden & Co.. on
Superior street, was entered by burglars, who
succeeded in getting off with watches and arti-
cles of jewelTy to the amount of $40, 900. The
facts connected with the robbery, 80 far as
known, are as follows
young man named Louis Weber sleeps In
the store at night. At half-past o'clock Sun
day evening he passed through the store and
found everything all right. He lighted one or
two OF the gas-burners, which are always kept
burning during the night aud then went out for
the evening, leaving all the doors and windows
secured in the usual manner.
About half-past ten o'clock, Mr.. Weber re-
turned to the store. Soon after entering he
glanced behind one of the counters and saw
large number of empty watch and jewelry cases
lying upon the floor. Fairly terrified at the
eight, he sprang to the front door and blew q
whistle. Patrolmen Stein and Wagner answered
the signal and were soon at the spot. InQuiring
the cause of the alarm, Weber told them, so
trembling and excited that he could scarcely
speak, that the store had been robbed.
When Weber first entered, upon his return,
the gas was turned down much lower than he
had left II, so that but a very faint light was
given, showing at once that somebody had
called after he left. The gas was turned on and
the extent of the robbery was apparent at
glance. One of the large show cases and part
of another were entirely empty, and upon the
floor in promiscuous confusion were q bushel
or 80 of morocco, ivory and satin watch and
jewery cases, which had been despoiied of their
contents
Over fifty ladies' gold and silver watches,
quantity of bracelets and jewelry sets, and about
one hundred and thirty set and seal ring, were
the principal articles taken.
An examination Of the premises showed that
the bold cracksmen had effected an entrance
into the store by rear window. They first
forced off a shutter and entered the watch
makers shop, but door leading from this into
the store was securely fastened and they were
unable to prosecute their explorations in that
direction without making SO much noise as to be
in danger of discovery.
They then returned to the outside and tried,
successfully, window leading directly into the
store. Once inside, with the gas turned down,
they were comparatively safe from detection.
Creeping along behind the counters they had
only to open the doors of the show cases and
sweep the plunder into their satchels. They
had just commenced upon one case, after hav
ing efectually cleaned out one, filled with valu-
able articles, when 1t is evident they were
alarmed by something and fed making good
their escape and leaving scarcely trace be-
hind. An iron bar, or ''jimmy," was picked up
just outside the window. All the diamonds and
many of the most costly watches were in the
vault