New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-11
PLAYHOUSE ROBBERIES.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE PoLlCE-THE CHARGES
RESENTEn

PLAYHOUSE ROBBERIES.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE PoLlCE-THE CHARGES
RESENTED.
Winfield Leeds & Co.. attorneys, at No. 12O
Broadway have issued printed circular detailing
the particulars of robbery committed at the Far
mount Flats OH August s. and rejecting on the eicl-
ency of the Police Department To appohend criini-
mails of the sneaktblet type. copy OF the circular
was sent to Police Headquarters aud to all the
station houses. 1t gives full DESCRIPTION OF the
man who is supposed 10 be the thief, circumstantla
details OF his throughout the day ana night
of the robbery. and partial description OF The
property stolen. The circular concludes Win these
words:
As the frequency OF thrse offences in this section OF
the city TO create great alarm among the resi-
dents and feeling insecurity inadequate protec
ton if not neifeiency, part OF those charged
with the protection OF property ana the prevention OF
at hand give publicity 10 the facts 10 enable
duty II Is 10 apprehend Criminals Tue better
10 perform such duty.
where The robbery took place, has been out OF town
since August 2. Oh his vacation. Sergeant Combes
said to reporter tSaS ne was Sbs s t tbe Geis
Morse. "t the Victim lie immediately assigned
Detectives Riley aud Bockhorn to work
robbery they have visited pawnbrokers
shops and secondhand clothing stores IN quest OF
the stolen garments but they have not found them.
In answer TO the charge that the frequency OF
similar offences this section of the city such as
TO create great alarm" said the sergeant, nave
only TO produce the records to show that there are
fewer cases OF petit larceny in this precinct than IN
any other precinct IN the city. The records SHOW
for the summer thus far only three such cases: On
July 16 John Burke stole two watches at No.
7S5 Tenth-ave., for which he has been apprenended
and will be sentenced tomorrow. On another Oc-
caslon IA boy stole "a watch from No. $50 enth-ave.
and was arrested and the watch recovered; aud on
July Is sllycrware was stolen at
No. los West Forty-nlnth-st. which has not been
recovered When you remember tue size and
sifua q 4
class showing"
Detectives Riley and Bockhom said they CON
sldered the circular unreasonable. Detective
Riley said that sneakthief was the hardest person
TO catch after robbery, and second hand clothes
about the most difficult articles to identity that de-
tectiycs are confronted with " The trouble In" he
added that almost in every instance these sneak
thieves come from the other end of the city TO per-
petrate these small robberes. and seldom dispose oil
small quantities of stolen articles within the city
limits"
ROBBING THE HOUSE OF A PLAYWRIGHT.
burglary was committed in the house of Fred
eTick Marsden, the dramatic author at No. 3lS West
One Observation-Disclosures xth-st., nearly week
ago. The facts were kept from the pubic until
Yesterday when Superintendent Walllng recei we'd
a report from Captain Slebert, Of the Manhattan
Vile police who made the confession also that
none Of the stolen properly had been recoyered and
house a threc-stOry and basement building with
brown-stone front which has been closed since June
l. when Mr.. Marsden and his family went to pass
Cummings, the sexton OF neighborlng church, IN
charge Of it. The police were given notice on
May 80 that it was to be left vacant and patrolmcn
were directed to take notice of II. AT u a. III on
Sunday morning Patrolman Geiger noticed that the
basement door was open, and upon investigation he
found that burglars had ransacked several rooms.
second story window III the OF the house had
been reached by means OF a ladder and opened with
jimmy. The sexton. who had the keys, could not
tell how much property had been carried away, but
he telegraphed TO Mr.. Marsden, who came TO the
city on Thursday and made an examination. Mr.:
Marsden gave TO the police list OF articles missed
from tue rooms, the most valuable OF which we're
q sealskn sacque and a Grape shawl belonging to
his wife, Other articles Of clothing and some
iewelry were Included in the list The police estl-
mated the value of the stolen property at 1880 Mr..
MaIsden sfterward went hack to Schroon Lake.
THE REAppEARANCE OF THOMAS G. HUNT
Members of the Produce Exchange were pleased
to hear yesterday that Thomas G. Hunt. the well,
known Oil broker who 30 mysterionsly disappeared
from his place of business, No. 1877 Front-st., on
father who lives al New Bedford has received let
ter from Mrs Hunt which announces that her hus-
band has arrived at Cambridge England. NJ
Swain, who has had charge of the business OF Mr.
offered IIe ''"S0 reward e1S Of $1,000 for in.
formation Of the missing man said that he
time OF the McGeoch failure, a couple of months
ago. that Mr.. Hunt was largely interested in specu-
lost some money; hence 1t was thought that he had
probably committed suicide in q fit of melancholy.
III is now stated mat the losses were not so large as
at frat supposed. and that they were more imagi
nary than real 10 Is believed. however, that Mr.
Hunt brooded over his misfortune aud to relieve
his mind from the apprehensive difficulties he con-
cuded TO Join his family III Europe, where they
have been soiouruing many months
PUNISHMENT FOR A COMMON SWINDLE.
Olaf Anderson and wife, Swedes who have been
living i'm Wisconsin, came TO this city to sail Tor
Europe on the steamer Westphaha of the Hamburg
line. They went TO Meyer Blocks boarding house,
No. 72l2 Wattsst., until the steamer sailed. When
nished with carriage driven by Charles Avenue.
The carriage belonged to Toole & Kennedy, Of No.
90 Washington Avenue demanded and received
20. declaring that 1t was fourteen miles to the