New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08
TERRIFIED BY BURGLARS.
porSGs OF A DARING GANG OF rnIEvEs-nor

DoINGs OF A DARING GANG OF TnIEvEs-noUsEs
VISITED REPEATEDLY
David NJ Smith, dealer i'll glass at No. 1916
Broadway IS preparing to move his family from
No 4GG West Eighty -third-st. where they have
been kept in state Of alarm by burglars for about
three weeks. He has appealed to tho police in
vain. An organized band of thieves has COM
United several robbcres in the neighborhood re-
GENTLY ana the detectives of the BloOmingdale PO-
lice SQUAD have not been able 10 eaten any OF the
rogues. 80
while the family were i'll the dining room at p.
m While ono more cOuiederate5 watched on
the outside IA burglar climbed through the second
story window and began TO- MI ms pockets win
the contents Of Mrs. Smiths jewolry boxes. Her
mother went mr. stairs to q room adjoining that IN
v hich the thief was at work and she heard him
strike two matches on the dresslng-case. The
noise surprised he she felt sure hat MIR. Smith
and his wife were down stat s. Dave, u that
You she inquired from the hall. Yes, it's me-"
eooy answered tie o S IaI;., Lnst an, ana not
way to her daughter: I" Is Dave down there u
Mrs Smith answered Yes" "Then there's
burglar IN your roOn," shouted her mother. Mr..
smith started ia search of tho burglar. bat he was
too late to him. servant who was approach
ing tbs house noticed man standing ON the side
walk in front OF IL. The man cOughed apparently
if TO attract the attention OF some one. mo.
ment later the burglar jumped out of the front
window and alighted safely on the stoop; lie ana
his confederate then ran away together. One of the
neighbors thought he saw four mon running up
Ninth-ave in company. The thief carried away
watch and cham and some !jewelry valued at about
5000.
Two or three nights after the robbery the thieves
made an attempt to break INTO house less than.one
hundred feet distant from that occupied by Mr..
Smith but they failed. Footsteps on the roof wero
heard ny Mr.. Smiths tather-in-law and 1t was be-
leved that the robbers were trying to get into the
house through the scuttle Two members of the
family were i'll last week. On Wednesday night
one OF them, who unable to sleep soundly.
heard some suspicious noises followed by n crash
IN the back yard 1t was seen in the morning that
the thieves had piled up number of empty barrels.
doubtless intending 10 climb into q rear window.
One of the barrels had collapsed, however, and tho
thieves had been frightened away. The sane rob
bers il is thought broke into the grocery store OF
w. II. Jackson, at Tenth ave. and Eighty thlrdst.,
recently and stole articles worth nearly $1,000.
They tore an iron bar from front grating an used
it as a level in breaking into q rear window. On
the night of the robbery they carried the bar away.
but probably finding no further use for 1t they
were pots enOueb TO leave II IN lIOnt OF che store
afterw ard Two members Of the band were discov-
cred in daylight In the basemenJ OF grocery store
ia the Western Boulevard near Eiahtieth st. by
tho proprietor, but they escaped On account Of
these robbercs raoues for letter police protection