Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-15

A Young woman'S startling Discovery
While Looking for Her Hat BOX.

"A y0O0G " Oo0nU SCNItlIu&S DbSOOVOHy
While Looking for Her Hat BOX.
On the west side of Second avenue, be
tween Thirty-second and Thirty-third
streets, New York, there is row Of four
story brick buildings, the ground floors
of which are used as stores. and the upper
stories as French flats. Their numbers
range from 5S1 to 500. The second floor
of 595 is occupied by Mr.. Thomas Kelly
his wife, and grown-up son and daugh-
ter. The latter, Miss Mary Kelly, is a
pretty girl of nineteen years, with brown
hair and eyes, and mild expression.
Shortly before 8 o'clock on Saturday even
ing the brother and sister decided to visit
friend. Miss Kelly left her brother in
the sitting room and went to her bedroom
for her hat. This she kept in hat box
under the bed. The box was not in its
accustomed place. She got down upon
her knees, and reaching beneath the bed.
began to search for it. Her hand came in
contact with mans arm. She drew back
The next moment man crawled from be-
meath the bed. Miss Kelly screaned.
keep still, for Gods sake, keep still, :"
said the man, Il am doing NO harm here.
There is trouble next door, and 1 only
came here to hide.''
The girl still continued to scream, and
the man made break to get the window,
which was open.
Miss Kelley, knowing that her jewclry
was in the room, and fearing that the
man had stolen it, caught hold of him and
held him in spite Of his struggles unit! the
arrival of her brother, who came in an
swer to her cries.
He dragged the intruder into the sitting
room, and told his sister to see if anything
had been stolen. The young lady had NO
sooner left the room than the prisoner
broke from his captOr. With bound he
reached the window. which looks on to
the street, and made a plunge through it.
There was a crash of glass, and half the
sash was carried away. Before he was en-
tirely through it, young Kelly caught him
by the legs and pulled him back. Ho was
cut about the hands and face. Policeman
Clinton, who was OIL the opposite side of
the street, hurried to the spot and took
the man into custody. He said that his
name was Henry Blake, and that his age
was twenty-three years. He claimed to
be gaslitter. He could give no expiana,
tiOn justifying his presence beneath the
bed. He was taken to the Thirty fifth
street police station. where ho was locked
up.
Ten minutes before Miss Kelly had
found Blake concealed in her bedroom,
there was quite a commotiOn in No. 593,
the adjoining house, where Mrs. Eliza
Danzigcr keeps a dry goods store. She
also occupies the second floor rs 4 resi-
dence. The apartments on this floor are,
after the French flat pattern, separated by
central door. The front rooms are, as
yet, unfurnished, while in the rear rooms
are the lsdy's valuables. On this central
door there is a burglar alarm, which CON-
municates with the store below This
door is usually kept locked. The alarm
began to ring at twenty minutes to
o'clock. Two clerks, at Mrs. Danziger's s
direction, ran up stairs. A window open
ing into the hall from the front room was
raised, and another overlooking the street
was also open. The door to which the
burglar alarm was attached was ajar. NJ
intruder could be found.
This circumstance explained how Blake
got into the room of Miss Kelly. He en
tered No. 593 through the side door. as
cendcd the stairs, and got into Mrs. Dan
ziger's front room through the hall win
dow. Frightened hy the burglar alarm
and bearing the clerks running upstairs
which cut off his retreat by the way he hat
come, he got out of the front window ant
walked along an eight inch ledge. which
is just above the store fronts. He thel
entered the adjoining house.