The sun., 1890-03-30
A TAILOR KILLS A BURGLAR.
HE HAO BEEN EXPECTING ONE F0B
FOUR YEARS AND WAS ALL READT.

FOUR YEARS And WAS ALL READY.
The Thief, shot Dead as He Thrust HIs
Shoulders Through the window-The
Tailor DischarEedi tho Thief UnkRown.
Abraham Marks, little, mddle-aged
tailor who keeps small shop at LAG East FIJI
teenth street. has been sleeping with one eye
open and pistol under his pillow, waiting for
n burglar. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning the
burglar came and Mr.. Markss long vigil was
rewarded. He shot the burglar dead. Mr..
Marks's shop 10 a room about ten feet square,
with tiny little u l." on the right at the rear,
1t reaches from the sidewalk to a little yard
back OF tho building. Two windows open from
the shop into the yard. Entrance to the yard
may be obtained through tho hallway of the
building. There is no protection to the win
dows except an ordinary catch on the sash In
side The building Is tenement house, and
Mr.. Mark family lived above the store.
About four years ago two thieves entered the
tailor shop and carried off n stock OF cloth
worth 5000 or $500. 1t CHANGED, however. that
a neighbor coming homo late saw one OF the
thieves leaving the building with the bundle
on his back. He raised an alarm. and the
thief had TO throw away his bundle in order to
escape. This part OF the stolen goods. about
one half OF them, was recovered. The other
thief got away with the rest OF the goods. Such a
loss was n very serious one to a man in the cir
cumstances of Mr. Marks with a wife and some
children on his hands He bought pistol and
swore TO be avenged. From that day he fore
swore the comforts OF his homo In the rooms
above his shop, and leaving his wife and chill
dren there wont down into tho stufry little
sh9p and ept on ySd he had lifted s In the
fixed so that tho ono eye that he, kept always
Gpon ors view Of the ne Tnd9%s nSr
His pistol was within easy reach.
:, harsh, grating sound at the window fur
al about 1 O'Clock yesterday morning, and n
few moments later he heard the sound Of tho
rose s9 m be her
was light enough Tor him TO see distinctly tho
head and shoulders OF man nrotruIing into
the shop through the open window. 1t was a
beautiful shot, but although he had been
waiting four years for II. he hadn't tho heart to
Ills lie. With his pistol aimed dead ahead and
his finger on the trigEsr n, the ns '%or cried
The man started to make some angry excla-
nation and seemed about to Jump in instead
Of GS as aWa bs n
shoulders OF the man vanished with the flash.
shot had been effective except as a scare.
The tailor was as scared AZ the hureln nr could
for awhile alter the crash Of the shot in the
little room had died down, and then he pulled
h asa e GO
in half IN hour he got up and dressed Going
out into tho yard he saw dark object lying IN
n heap upon the iiags b"neath his back win
dow, and Il red pool stain ing the stones around.
He rushed Off to the street and didn't stop run
ming until he met Policeman Foley of the
Twenty-second street station. to whom he
:" man tried to get in. and I shot him 1
Then he led the way to the shop, and on
to hs Gafe ySG he R9 da R6s
noighUors were aroused by the hustle in the /,
yard, and came out in neglige costumes on !
The last to appear was Mrs. Marks. who had
sleut sounJly Through the shooting. and who
the custody Of policeman. with dead man |
After making sure that there WAS no sign OF
to the Morgue and took Marks to the station |
house, Later the tailor was arraigned Mt the |
to Justice O'Ieiliy. jacob Marks. a lawyer. |
who is a nephew Of the tailor, testified that he
it marks Of some steel instrument which had |
beeR u used 70 9 force it il open. j., ,,. ,.,
added, some remarks to the effect that the
tailor had done Just right in shooting the man.
Meantime. at the MorGue. Detective Wade of .
an examination Of the dead burglar. He found
him an evil looking fellow with a deformed
inches In height. about A. wears old with dark .
hair, slightly bald heal. and reddish nous
pieces of iron fell from the pockets. one was q
burglars jimmy and the other thin steel
blade that looked az though it had been cor
act steel. This had been used to sip between
tho window sashes to movo the catch. He wore
q faded black sack coat and vest. dark trous-
ers brown o,vercoat black derby hmt laced
bore a mark which showed that it had been
purchased from $. Marshall, Auburn. n. Y.
This leads the police to suppose that the man
may have been recently released from the
state Prison at Auburn. The initials + S. s."
we're in the hat. There was no other clue to
he mans identity. and uD to last night no
claimants for the body had appeared.
Tho wound was In tho left side, Of the head,
the brain. and must have caused