The New York herald., 1876-10-31
DISCRIMINATING BURGLARS.

NASSAU STREET J8wRLRY STORE CLEARED
oUr-ABoUr YIYTERN THOUSAND DOLLARS
WORTH OF JEwELRY STOLEN.
Yesterday merning It discovered that the large
jewelry Of Aessrs. Stein Brother had been en-
tered some timo aitor six O'Clock Saturday night
and all thor valuable stock OF jcwelry and dia
monds stolen. The manner OF the burglars entrance
or exihusmains mystery.
Mr. Abraham Stein is the senior partner OF the firm
Of Stein Brother, importers and jobbers In swiss
and American jewery. Their store is in the front
the second floor OF No. GO Nassau street
Several other firms occupy tho rest of the building
with the exception of the top noor where Mrs Guibe
the janitress, and her two sons reside.
Mr. Stein lett the storc Saturday afternoon leav-
ing OF his tho Of locking up tho Office
This done by the latter at about O'Clock in the
evening. The Office door, overlooking the stairs, is
secured by a common paddock, which has been on the
for years The safe locks had been tried Sat-
urday and found secure before the members OF the
firm left
AT halEpast seven O'Clock yesterday morning Mr..
Abraham Stein went to the store. and surprised to
aLd tho door wide open Entering the room, he found
everything In the grenest confusion The door Of the
safc nearest the window stood open. Jewelry and
Of every kind scattered the
door. The safe OF the kind known Her
rings Salamander safes hole about foot and q
half wide by foot long had been mado In the door,
directly ovor the lock. small hole had FIRST been
made with punch. and . sectional jimmy afterward
inserted cut open the iron covering, which bent
and twisted about like tin After removing this
Ing tho thieves had succeeded in forcing back the bolts
OF the lock and thus opening the SAFE
Captain Petty, Of the First precinct was at once
sent for searching investigation Of all parts OF tho
building showed that none of the doors windows
had been tampered with, and that the thieves could
not have elected an entrance by violence The
officers in whose patrol is the building for
and that they had been very careful in trying the
door every round they knew that valuable goods
kept there. livery time that the door had been
tried IL had been found securely locked
On the floor the sale found Kit OF burg.
lars tools, entirely They consisted Of two Sec
tional Jimmios, one punch one cold chsei, ono ham
and brace and bits
ln the safe sixty small drawers hold trinkets
ana Jewery OF small sze These had all been
opened and the greater part ri1ed Of their
contents. curious circumstance in regard TO
the burglary that the thieves seemed be we'll
quainted with the nature Of the goods they had
handled. They had carefully selected only gold or
diamond articles, avoiding all such petty swag as
plated limitation stones The latter class Of
articles they had scattered about the 1oor in apparent
disdan.
her two Mrs. Guber had scrubbed tho stairs and
halfway ot tho bu.dlng on Sunday, but had heard
u
cripple, had passed up and down stairs many times
SINCE Saturday afternoon, but had heard
ing TO excite their suspicious
The theory OF the police that tho burglars allowed
thems selves TO be- locked into the building saturday
afternoon and uid thcir work Sunday. The OF
the building leading 70 the street was opened between
and halipast SIX O'Clock yesterday morning. Tho
police think thai tho burglars watched their oppor-
Iunity and slipped out with their booty when
looking.
Tho task Of opening the safc door evidently
difficult All the tools evidence OF hard usage
and OF the jimmes is broken of just above the
point The tools have been taken TO the First precinct
station house. They valued At about $500, but
not taken away by the thieves most probably
account OF the danger OF detection
Inspector rhorne and Roundsman Brooks were noti-
1cd and made an examination OF The place, but with
bottcr result than obtained by Captain Petty 1t
Is thought that these burglars are the same who
robbed Nr Marshalls store IN Chatham street. about
iour months ago, OF $780, COO worth OF goods,
and also the store OF Mr. Horton, No. "A
Fulton street, OF $12 600 worth of jewery tho night
OF september 80 There Two gangs OF these bur-
glars known to the police. ''Sheeny Aike,n member
OF OF the gangs arrested suspicion at the
time of the Horton burglary, but discharged for
want OF sutnc,cnt evidence against him.
The members OF the hrm unable to state the
tent OF their losses. Tho goods were not insured
against burglars and will prove "a total loss Captain
Petty estimates this TO be about xl50
Tho following Is list OF the valuable articles
taken-l58 gold and silver watches, eighty gold ana
enamecd ockets, thros sets OF diamond earrings,
diamond set consisting OF earrings, necklace, brooch,
three diamond collar buttons, 200 seal rings und 900
srae