The New York herald., 1878-10-24
LUCKY SNEAK THIEVES.
THE BAsxMEHrs or 4 ROW or FRENCH FLATS
RANsAcKED BIZ RoBBEns-oooLNEss OF THE

THE BAsEMENrs or A ROW or FRENCH FLATS
RANsAcKED BIZ RoBBERs-cooLNEss OF THE
GANG AND AsroSIsHMENr OF THE TENANTS.
On Fifty ysixth street, JUST vest OF sixth avenue, on
the north side IL . handsome Af tall brick French
apartment houses with marble trimmings. plate glass
windows aud all modern improvements There are
eight houses in all, extending from No. 1o7 10 No.
12l They are alternately single and double nats,
the latter accommodating and the former ave fam
lies. The Easements entered from she siuswak
and the interior and tno only remarkable difference
between them and the Easements Of any other block
OF houses built for . similar purpose and on one
settled design 10 that man can pass midway In the
rear through sort Of open window from one base
the other from end 70 end Of the row. IL is
necessary 10 understand account TOR the whole
sale plpnder psrpetratsd by most impudent set Of
iheves the other night Neither tho janitor nor
the tenants could exactly determine whether II was
Saturday or Sunday or Monday morning when the
robbery was committed, ior the whole thing hap
pened In the Easements or cellars Of The different
houses. who're the residents seldom visit The jani-
tor, Mr. James Cahil when travsrsng the cellars on
Monday morning, noticed somstning wrong At No
100 In shs shape OF trunk thrown wide open ana
half us contents Uttered over the floor and childs
dysss Tying The steps ascending from the cellar 10
the hallway.
cLovER ROE ruIKvza
The occupants OF the houses all Of respectable
and some OF = fashionable class. wniie they may
have abundance oi room on their respective fats TO
sleep, eat and receive visitors thoy have little to
spare lumber tho storing away OF unused ar,-
cles Of wearing YeAr Consequently they have been
the haDs oi sending down IN trunks TO tne store
rooms In the cellar their winter wearing apparel in
tho sunni mer, and their summer toggery In the wn-
ter. multitude OF trunks, iuli OF clothes, wese
bundled Into each storsroom in tne basement, ana
when tho sneak tnievos came along they had
limited cnoice OF spolis iu Tho way Of dry ssoas.
They seemed TO nave begun their operations at No.
100. but the frst trunk they tackled Was servxnt
gri's, and from the way they left IT, with Almost
stis or nothing taken away they must have
gusea with their initia ory experience Bat they
they lifted the upper part lock aud mad easy
access 10 tho interior. Out OF those they ele red
inside cotton shirt. they proceeded from BASEMENT
TO basement. riniug every tru0k they came across,
% ,ock au an Of hns. on
cnoose IRON. they skipped Nos. lis and lit because
the machnery or heating ths row - between these
No H. but they kept on tncir way beyond there 10
No. III, making a more CONSCIENTIOUS examination
OF the trunks they came across than any Custom
House 0l1cer wouiu be supposed TO do.
LADy's kxpERIxxcx
Mrs. Chambers, 0i No 49, said that last Sunday
ornng she went aown III the basement and took her
winter clothing, among which was set Of iurs out
ol OF The trunks III tue storeroom aud replaced
II with her own summer wear aud that Of the baby.
She mad pair Of winaow awnings IN the cellar,
sns sns i,oS soos 81 .h. ne swn'Uss Sn' psy ~
open the trunk They carried away fully
nsr husbands. and thrse summer ncr own.
Tnsy lett behind pair OF ian,br gums. IL was then
pointed The eves into the ssoreroon but
nard IL would De Tor lhem 10 get over the
lock affixed thereto had u not been that the PARTITION
admitted Of easy penetration. The tnievss knocked
several pieces oi pnc board out ot the sep rating
pAftio, climbed through aud despoilcd The property
''Look al wnAt they lett behind" sad the injured
the West InGies years aga Snow, I'd rather they'd
have taken that. ior never knew how to get OF
II, AS II cluug " me only by associations"
Mr. Johnson, OF No 119, said no lost clothing and
carpsting out OF two truukR he thieves Iet pair
OF curtains that were not OF much vaiHe, .hey
more or less worn. As mud not noticed Tho robbery
until thai morning.
Mrs. Adams OF No Ill, SAID she lost nothing Of any
great value except some articles Of cloth'ng, but
there were three trunks bcl0nging 10 lady visitor
from the country, who was abssnt, and they wero
completely gutted, but she Was unable to say what
they might have coniaiued.
Mr. Dc Won; OF No. loo, hsd his trunk broken
open and IT'S contents ol cioshing, worth perhaps
500. carried on. Mrs. Chambers bad idea they
got IN through the scutte on the root and down
10 the basement, as thcre was nothing 10 obstruct
them IN the way ot doors. rhsy must, sne thioks,
have done their WORK very cooliy, ior she found
baby's caskes opened everything IN u looked
II II mad been turned over and ts value appraised
A small memorandum book which she knew had
been lied with airing also opened, ana the im-
pudent thieves had conned every entry In H.
TIM POLICE MrsTiFiED.
rhs Jani.or ns.,asa Uap."'S Wara: A. me Forty.
last everino, mad idea VINO could have perpe-
irated the robbery. He VIII very hxey have dslecIvc
the case to-day The agent Of the houses, Mr. Water
low VI sixth aveuuc, WAS moulded BY Of the tenants
Tuesday morning, but he never gave the slightest
attention 10 the adair. tI
roRMER VISITS.
Miss Cahii, sister OF the jantor. relates that
two months ego sneak tnici stepped into their
foor while the door was rjar nnd stole black vsi-
vet uress, black cashmere aud n brown silk drsss,
all valued al $780, Mrs. Adams put out expensive
waterproof CLOAK on pulley nno one evening", and IL
was gone In tho morning.