New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-16

two or three common chairs and ,small Ystovc. The
door of this opens 10 private staircase which
leads down to the back basement and into an under
ground passage which communicates with the street by
cellar door. The front room is very comfortably fur
nished apartment about sx2O with large fire burning
in open CRATE, and separated from the back by
fodngdoors. The room door leading into the entrance
passage close TO these DOORS and apparently be
fastened by alarge sliding bOa false The head OIL
the bed, unusually high is placed against the WALL 10
face the windows with couch behind IT, just clear OF
the entrance door, THUS the victim neither see tne
door by which he entered, the foldngdoors Agas'
the fodingdOors covering the ordinary opening H''
heavy handicapped washstand large, pohuoiV''
looking-glass hangs Immediately over 1t, ana TWO c'
are placed either side. Between the WINDOWS 'aoi
is ressingtabe, also with chair on either Sue III"
foldn0door annarently cannot be opened because OF
the washstand and looking glass and two big pos' p"
this Is not So The left hand door instead OF Dehg n
on hinges from the ordinary casing has It's hinges On Wv
other door, IN the center OF the room ana ~ he
by large, common wooden button Dol. On '"o O,''
side I'm be room I'm which the panelthef Is conceaeu'
Having Thoroughly inspected the house the reporters
returned TO the back room, and with welasuned ease
and having been posted by the detective in panelhouSe
slang they threw themselves the lounge lit cigars,
and opened desultory conversation with their hosts
"staked the Captanf"
| ono. We're on the breakup"
"staked the beat!'
Eyes"
'HeavyY p
GIVE dollars night"
For the information OF the uninitiated. may ex
PLAIN the meaning of this conversation the thieves had
not brbed the Captain OF the Precinct preerrng to
the risk being broken up but they paid the patromen
s. a night
At this moment steps were heard in the passage, the
gas turned down, and all kept GREATNESS silence.
An elderly man entered the front room with wOnlan
and Immediately all eyes eagerly watching through
the little peephOes bored through the walls and DOORS
and into which pegs inserted the moment the is
withdrawn to prevent the light showing through The
"sucker," however as the victim is termed became
alarmed at something and began to parley with his
panion. "I have been into two houses already this
evening" and have been raped out of each" he said
for what reason don't know But If I'm to be raped
out again, i wont stay"
"That sucker" whispered the proprietor his assist
ant has been beat out OF his money and hasn't found
it out yet Don't let him squea here. Rap him out at
once"
The elderly gentleman accordingly raped
out and all again assumed their seats and cigars. At
this moment the assistant discovered that the panel
creaked little and suggested more grease on the
hinges
"Oh" replied the head "that won't be noticed by the
sucker il the girl does her part we'll"
The assistant about to say something more, when
he seized with fit OF coughing When IL had
subsidized he laughingly remarked ats very strange
but when there's sucker in that front room couldn't
cough to save my life" The conversation then turned
the number OF girls and their lovers who are con-
nected with the house. The rent and other matters
then discussed and the reporters were beginning
to wonder what they could say next when The negro
servant who had been out on errand came back in
hurry and whispered that Of the girls had just
passed the house with sucker.
"She's that girl who only came tonight" said
the proprietor to his assistant You had better hop
out and work them in. She probably don't know the
house in the dark"
The assistant kicked off his list slippers, drew his
boots and in the act Of putting 'on his coat when
the noise Of the opening OF the sreetdoor arrested his
preparations, the gas was hurredy turned down,
smoking was forbidden and the peep-hOles again re-
sorted to. German, about 80 years of age entered
the room with dark-haired Hashily addressed woman
who Immediately requested him TO bolt the door This
he did but he might have saved himself the trouble for
the door was no more closed then than 1t was before
These bolts arevery ingenious The catch on the amb
OF door into which the bolt slides has three alse
screwheads in it, In reality it is not attached TO the
decreasing at ALL fastened to the body Of the bolt
by unseen plate. Consequently when the door Is
opened the catch forward with the remainder OF
the bolt This Of course not noticed by the man, as
the gas not turned up by the woman till after the
door was closed While the was boiling the door
the woman hurried to the dressing-tabe and
hastily laid her haton one chair and her cloak the
other This action compelled the to place his
clothes the couch or OF the chairs by the fold
ingoors Unless this arrangement is carried out no
robbery can he contaminated. When all was ready, one
Of the operators scratched lightly the door with his
ngerna to the woman he was about 10 enter the
room. The next moment the button was slipped the
man boldly opened the door wde removed the chair out
of his way, and gided rapidly TO the other chair on
which the mans clothes lay. At this moment the
woman redOubled her destinations. for the pur-
pose Of distracting the attention of her com
panon in which purpose she emnently sue
cessful The work OF going through the mans pockets
what is technically known as wedding his pocket
book was quickly over the chair quietly replaced,
the paneldoor closed ana the thief appeared with roll
of bils in his hand. The whole thing done in from
% to % seconds Immediately after the closing of the
door the second went outside, and knocking on the
passace-door OF the bedroom, said in loud whisper:
"Jenny, here's Joe; hurry up"
any Godw exclaimed the girl, jumping up, you
must get away as fast as you can. That's my lover.
He's dreadful Jealous and would shoot you as
look at you"
Its needless to say that the victim required press
ing TO do as required He jumped into his clothes fast
as possible only too glad to get out of the way before
the appearance OF the terrible imaginary lover and a
narenty without the slightest notion that he had been
robbed The panel men had good laugh, in whfsh, as
matter of course the reporters joined and them think
ING they had seen all they wanted TO they soon after
took their leave promising to return the following even
ing to. talk business
KENO.
HOW KENO Is PLAYEDz-NO SECRECY ATTEMPTED
CHEATING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE
FRAUD-sHARP EYES WATCHING sHAIPERS.
in fla nciOh h0n