Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-30
from the Broadway entrance, but the

from the Broadway entrance, but the
burglars
HAD OF COURSE TAKEN THE PREcAU-
TION
to shut themselves up in the vault to
make their work more secure. The
tanitor's apartments consisted OF one
large room, divided by q movable
partition into three rooms, one large
and two small. The janitor and his
wife sleeep in the one nearer to Bleek-
er street. The door of the sitting
opens into q hallway, at the other end
OF which is room that was hired
about five weeks before by q French
man, dealer In artificial flowers,
whose name could not be ascertained. !.
Mrs. Werkle said yesterday to q
Woyld reporter that the family went
to bed at 10 o'clock on Saturday
night. She is . sufferer from heart
disease, and spent q very restless
night. She could have heard If any
one had entered the house during
the night, but everything was quiet.
At O'Clock yesterday morning
Kealy came up and raped on, the
sitting-rcom door. Her husband
went out to return the rap, carrying
his trousers in his hands. He stayed
there few minutes and she supposed
he was dressing. Suddenly five men
with black masks on the lower part
Of their faces and white handker-
chiefs
TIED AROUND THEIR FOREHEADs,
rushed into the room bringing her
husband with them. The first she
knew her husband was sitting on the
bed beside her. They handcuffed him
and her, and one of the men went in.
to the adjoining room and tied her
mother to the bed with sheet. They
told her to be quiet and she would
not be harmed. They then demand
ed the keys which were lying on the
table in the sitting room, and having
obtained them two ofthe men walked
quietly out, the other three remained
on guard i'll the room, one placing q
chair in the bedroom and taking his
seat there. She thought they remain.
ed there three or four hours, and fl.
nally went away without receiving
any signal that she noticed. She LAY
in bed until 10 o'clock, when Officer
Kennedy came and took the hand
cuffs of. The men wore business
suits. One of them, whose head wa,
partly uncovered, was q stout man
Another wore q brown coat. Sht
says also that the Frenchman refer
red to above, up to Saturday mornine
had NO key to the door of the hall III
stoira Tat vpnrn; ., ~ I, a 4 n -, . =, 4 ol
THAT A KEY Re GIVEN HIM
before night and he got it. Thi
door, she says, she RENE bered, wa
latched by her husband before h,
went to bed on Saturday night. Su
perintendent Walling said to the re
porters at midnight that the entire de
tective force of the city had been pu
to work on the case, and that a clcv
had been found aud was being follow
ed up, with fair prospects of success
From another source it was ascer
tanned that the police were in hope
OF making one or more arrests befOr,
morning. An inspection of the in
terror OF the bank shows how bur
glars might work uninterrupted,
even In midday without being observ
ed from the street. A high desl
hides the front of the vault from viey
on the Broadway side, while the out
er railing OF the bank prevents scru
tiny of the vaul, from Bleecker street
Having once secured an entrance I,
; the vault. the doors were probabl,
closed, and the noise of the burglars
operations could scarcely be heard OF
the outside. 4t5 ga