Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-25
A BIG HAUL,
THIEVES oRAuK A JEwEnRy STORE.
rhey Make a Complete Despoilment-Be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 Worth
Of aooGs Carried Un.


In Troy, n. Y, early Sunday morning,
burglars effected an entrance into the jew
elry store of Emmanuel Marks & Son, on
River street. The store was closed about
ten o'clock on Saturday evening, the val
uables being placed in the safe, which
stood in the front of the store, next the
show window. About $3.50 Sunday morn
ing, when Harry V. Finn, the clerk,
went to put out the gas, he was startled
to find the safe door on the floor. kit Of
burglars tools being near by. He imme-
diately informed the proprietors. The
burglars did not enter the store directly,
but first gained entrance to Macdonald u
Van Alstyue's Office, the first store south,
by forcing the fastening of one OF the
windows on the alley side, probably by
prying with q jimmy underneath. Ihey
then raised the sash and, entering, lowered
il aud proceeded about their work. In
forcing tho window fastening one OF the
panes of glass was cracked. Then, de-
scendiug to the cellars, q hole was made in
the tyelve-inch wall of about fifteen by
twenty inches, sufficiently large to admit
of the passage Of IN ans body. Advantage
was taken of the fact that q water pipe ran
through the wall into the cellar of the
iewelry store. the small opening attording
room for the burglars ready jimmies. The
brick removed was left in q pile in Mac
Donald 4 Van Alstyne's cellar.
The men then mounted the stairway
leading from the cellar to the rear of
Marks 4 Sons store. No powder appears
| TO have been used in opening tho safe.
Access was gained, apparently, by insert.
| ing iimmies over the right door and
| forcing the tlange. In this way an open
ing of probably half inch was secured,
aud then one Of the improved double jim.
mics was attached, by which sufficient
leverage was secured to force the outside
of the door from its inner side. Lying
exposed on shelves in the safe were several
trays on which were finger rings, earrings,
bracelets set with diamonds or other prec.
| ious stones also, between seventy five
and hundred valuable gold watches,
cash, etc. In several wooden compart
meuts were cards, attached to which were
diamond studs, etc. In all iron compart
ment over the wooden drawers, in the
upper right hand corner, were large
number of loose diamonds on trays. This
compartment had also been forced.
The entire contents Of the safe appear 70
have been first carried ia room in the
rear Of the store ani carefully assorted
for all the cheap goods were thrown on the
| floor. Between so, 900 and si5, 900 worth
of goods and 500 in cash were carried of
In the cellar was found copy Of the New
York NIl and Express of February %,
containing iewelry. Police Officer Arthur
Trenor was on duty on the River street
beat between the hours Of midnight and
six o'clock. He asserts that few moments
after six o'clock he passed the store, and,
as is his custom, looked searchingly
through the window, and particularly at
the safe, which the light from the window
exposed fully to view. He is positive that
the safe was then intact and that nothing
in the store had been disturbed.