New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-16
BURGLARY IN MORRISANIA.
The HOUSE OF DIR. HORACE H. TINKER ENTERED
BY ROBBERs.

THE HOUSE OF DIR. HORACE II. TINKER ENih"HD
BY ROBBERS.
The law-abiding character of the residents OF MOT
risania is so we'll established that the report OF an
attempt Of burglars to rob the house OF Dr. Horace
H. Tinker, in Washirgton-ave.. between one-huh-
red-and-sixty- eighth and ne-hundred-anu-SiNt!-
ninth-sts.. on Saturday morning last. caused quite
futtcr in police circles. The story toid by Di
Tinker is that at $3.50 a. m. Saturday his servant
girl discovered that there were lights III the ioWci
mart of the house and aroused the doctor, telling
him there were robbers in the house lie TOOK DIS
revolver and started down stairs where ne found
all the lights burning When partly down he saw
three men in the hallway and fired shot at them
through the bannisters. They fed with two
others who came from the dning-room, by the back
door and he pursued them, firing two more shots as
they were going out of the door and two addtlonal
shots after they outside. The doctors sho0t-
ing was without effect, except TO hasten their DE,
parture, for the robbers escaped through the yard
and over q fence at the rear. Returning 10 tle
house the doctor could find no trace OF bue! marks
nor blood. In the dmingrOOm the robbers, III thcIr
hurry to escape, had left the silver tableware al
ready packed for removal. They had examined the
doctors Instruments, and cut the lock ron me
desk in his Office The only thing that he could dls-
cover they had taken away was 100 cigars, IN eX-
change for which they had left one ana nan pairs
of shoes and shirt which they may nave slqIeh
from some ueighboring clOthes-line. 1t was subse-
ouenty ascertained that the robbers had entered
through the rear parlor window by prying open the
latch, after which they opened all the doors so Us
to be prepared for hurried flight No clew mas
been found as 20 who the burglars are; but q SUIT
has been begun by Mrs. Towet, who lives directly
In the rear OF DR.. 1inkeTs house. against INN Tor
damages for having expressed his suspicion that
some of her sons might have been concerned III the
robbery. DR.. Tinker says that robberlcs have been
quite frequent in the village during the last Two
years. and that ms house was robbed OF articles
valued at $3.50 some two years ago. The records al
the Police Station, Precinct lhiTty-three. snow
that the number in The last SIX months OF all KINDS
of Iobberes reported to the police does not average
one per month, the last previous entry being May
81 in which case watch was stolen by negro
who is now serving out his term of SIX months I'M
prisonment on Backwell's Island. The IhiTty-thlrd
Precinct extends from Harle River to One-hun-
Observation-Disclosures, and from High Bridge TO
Long island Sound. For all this territory, with
population of about 10000, only ten or eleven
officers are detailed, and some of them have posts
i'm which there are from twenty-five to thirty miles
of streets There other police precinct Of equal
extent i'll the city, and no other shows anything
like the same freedom from lawlessness, although
the police force is so entirely inadequate.