The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-07
TOO SMART TO BE CAUGHT.
The Carefully Pinpned Robbery CT Ford &
co.'s Siiverwarc siors FasiidiCus Tastes


Tic Cnrorplly Piapned Robbery CT Ford &
co.'s Silvsrwarc siors Fas.idCus Tastes
Concerning tho Precious Metal.
The burglary Of Messrs. Ford & Co, s sill
verwaro store, at Sl7 broadway reported In yes
tcrday's SUN, was one OF the most artistic and
thorough jobs, In ts peculiar line, ever perpe-
trated in New York. Judging from tho tracks
'hNv '"f. 'hs hn,rgars must flrst have entered,
by forcing from Its hinges, uoor OF the organ
store Of Mcssrs. Peloubet. Polton Goa In tho
second story OF the building at Broadway and
Thirteenth street. Here they displaced nothing,
injured none of the goods or desks, and did not
trouble themselves, seemingly, about tho safe,
but, with businoss-ke dircctness of purpose,
bored a hole, fifteen inches wide and about
twenty-eight In height, through the back wall to
a room Of Peters Co.'S music store, at Si3
Broadway. while they were doing this, two Of
them doubtless kept guard by the door at which
they entered, IA on the following morning two
chairs were found near the door, and the stumps
of the watchers cigars laid upon the floor near
them. In the music store they took down from
their racks uinctysix follos Of sheet music, piled
them neatly and In an orderly manner on one
side, and then removed the racks, unnasking
boarded-up window, through which they readily
forced their way to the roof OF the extension
back Of Mr. u. D. Miners picture gallery, at SO
Broadway. TO the gallery they made an entrance
by wrenchng OH the broad, but thin piece Of
iron, through which passed a staple for the pad
lock on the iron grating supposed to protect
back window.
Against the wall separating this gallery from
Mcssfs. Ford X CO.'S store were piled a large
number Of oil paintings, worth from $50 to $50
each. All these they carefully set to one side,
not even scratching "a frame in doing SO. and
then ripping on a large piece Of the maroon mo-
hair drapery the wall, they began cutting
their way through To the silver. But this seems
To have becn deemed too slow and difhcult
job. for they lcft II, and passing out to the OK
tension roof. went along to the back OF sii,
where they made hole not more than eleven
inches IN width by twenty In height, into the
store. Here they cut the burglar alarm, and
then deliberately selected such goods as wero
rccompended 10 their fastidiouS tastes by the
intrinsic value of the metal they contained.
They took no plated ware. II tho proprietor,
not haye picked out more accurately the solidly
valuable things in their stock than did those dis
goods as had most weight Of solid silver IN the
smallest bulk, except In the instance OF one
have doubled Gb TO get through the hole in tho
wall. The amount OF goods they carried on is
estimated at about S5uOu.
their plundcr through Peters Il Co.'S store down
to the side door on Thirteenth street, and then
loaded IL into carriages and drove away, taking
care to lock the door behind them and carry on
the key. The burglary was manifestly thorough
y planned by its perpetrators and II Is renem-
bercd that late one evening about ten days ago
two suspicous-lookiug fellows entered the
organ store when the porter was closing for the
night, pretending To wish to purchase an organ,
but doubtless simply to survey the premises,
and about the Same time another man upon
some excuse managed 10 get out of lockwood ;
photograph gallery upon the roof, and here take
survey u the extension roof and back win
d0ws along The row. The burger alarm in Ford
& Cos store was attached to all the doors and
|. windows, but the thieves avoided touching
them. and when once inside found the alarm in
| "A concealed place. and cut It's wires to Sc
| cure themselves from accidental betrayal. one
| other point showing their careful planning Of
the job, is that in cutting through the wall be-
tween tho organ store and Peters Co. =, they
| attacked precisely that spot Of the wall where
| there was Hue, so that they had but TWO thin