Evening journal., 1889-12-26
A PUGILISTIC BURGLAR.
He Knocks a Pretty Housemaid
Senseless,
PELTs BOARDERs WITH DISHES.

And Is Finally Captured and Sat Upon
by Two Young DIen-He Took Possess
sion of the whole House. but Came 20
Grief at Last.
NEW YoRK, Dec e6.--An exciting burg
larry took place Christmas eve in the three
story brown stone boarding house Of James
Symington, No. IS Morton street, Brook
lyn At z in the evening Mr.. Symington
and his wife had gone out to buy Christ
mas presents, and the pretty English hired
girl, Kitty Gin, was clearing away the
dishes when she heard a clatter OF glass.
She rushed from the basement dining room
to the hallway, and saw that a small side
light next the door had been shattered.
She opened the door A stranger stepped
into the hall
FeiIed by a Blow.
"What do you wantF she asked, some
what frighted
II want money! he replied.
The next moment he struck her a power
ful blow in the chest She staggered back
and fell on the stairway. Her head struck
ON one of the stair steps and she became un-
conscious She revived in about two min
utes and screamed for help. The stranger
was still standing in the hallway. Hestruck
her in the face, and she ran into the base
ment dining room and locked the door be-
hind her.
Two Women Besieged.
The boarders upstairs did not hear the
girls screams for help. In the basement
dining room was also Mrs. Sarah Jones' a
dressmaker The two women secured the
two doors leading from the hallway into the
basement and remained in a state of siege.
The burglar went upstairs to the parlor.
He took the French CLOCK from the mantel,
and swept the books from the center table.
including an illustrated family Bible, and
placed them on a little veranda outside the
front window. He tore down the Christmas
decorations Of evergreens and holly berries
in order to open the window. Then he went
to a bedroom ON the parlor floor.
Robbing by Wholesale.
He took from the clothes rack in the room
a sealslSin cap. a velvet cloak, seal plush
cloak and other articles of apparel valued
at Sl25. He took from a bureau drawer $40
in gold coin. He flung the bedding from
two beds and tore up the mattresses in
search Of money. He raised the reur bed
room window, threw the wearing apparel
he had stolen on a rear shed, then got out
? on the shed and carried the clothes into tbs
yard and hid the articles where he could gel
them when he was ready TO leave the house
! From the yard he entered the basement
: hallway.
The Dressmaker's Escape.
Kitty Gill hnd just left the house in searcl
OF "a policeman The burglar tried TO opel
the door leading from the hallway into th
dining room, but the dressmal1er had locke
it, He went to the front of the house, raisel
= one Of the basement windows and spran
into the room, falling on the floor on hi
hands and knees. The dressmaker sat in on
corner of the room at work with her needle
She was greatly frightened The burgla
: picked up little alarm clock from the mar
tel and drew it back to strike her with
lie PeIted Boarders with Croelsery.
By this time two of the boarders Clareno
Boise and Edward Phillips, alarmed by th
noise in the basement, came down stairs an
found the burglar standing in the dinin
room behind one Of the dinner tables. A
soon as they entered the room he opened fir
on them with vinegar cruets, peppersauc
bottles, saltcellars, platters, soup tureen
cups, saucers and dishes Nearly all th
china that had been on the table was broke
against the walls of the dining room, an
the floor was Uttered with fragments Q
dishes The boarders lodged the flying mi
siles the best way they could and made
break for the burglar. They caught hin
flung him down, and sat ON him till Kit
Gill arrived with two policemen.
He stil Wanted to Fight.
The burglars arm was badly cut and thei
was pool Of blood on the dining room foo
There was blood on the walls Of the bedroo
on the parlor floor. lie had iacerated
arm in breaking the sidelight Of glass
trying to break into the basement door. !
was a young man not more than 10 yea
old. He was partly under the influence
liquor. He told the officers that he wou
fight them if he could. His sname is Edwai
n Currier, and he lives at Wythe avenue al
Clymer streets less than block away fro
the house he entered. 1t is supposed that
was one Of a gang of burglars, and that
A put his booty outside the house SO that !
confederates might get it and carry it ava