Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-13
ON COLLEGE STREET..


DR.. !. r. 9. Hosser,s House Entered
While the Family Were At the Ball. 1
Atelephone call was received at the police
station at II O'Clock last night asking for
policeman at the residence of DR.. J. P. O.
Foster on College street. Officer Shields was
dispatched with the patrol wagon. He found
the house had been entered while DR.. and
Mrs.. Foster were at the Charity ball.
No one was at home but DR.. Fosters thir-
teen year old daughter and the servants. One
of the domestics had heard some one enter
the house and go upstairs to spare room on
the second floor. Little Miss Foster also
heard them but supposed it was her father
and mother returning from the hall. After
q while she became alarmed and went into the
hall. It wm dark and she thought she heard
some one coming towards her. She ran back
to her door Just in time to see man, who
she thought wore q mask, hasten BY and RIM
down the stairway. Her cries aroused the
domestics, who reached her In time to hear
the burglar opening lower door.
The frightened girl called to General Bar
ton, who lives near by, for assistance. he
telephoned to the police station and also
went to the Hyperion for DR.. Foster.
The officer with DIR. and Mrs. Foster exc
amined the house but could 6nd nothing
gone. A few Of the drawers and furniture
in the spare room, in which the man was
heard, had been ransacked, but it was evi-
dent the house breaker had been frightened
away before he could obtain anything of
| value.
The lower door of the house, opening into
the yard, was aiar. This had been securely
locked and bottled and the thief had unlocked
| 1t In goiug out. He had entered through a
rear window by breaking the fastenings.
The window was found wide open by the
| officer.
YORK SQUARE BURGLARY.
The House of nathan Easterbrook
BurgiarIzed = The Servant Girl
sileneed with a Pistol.
The house of Nathan Easterbrook, jr., on
York Square was entered by burglar about
quarter-past 10 O'Clock last night. Half an
hour after that time Officer Dick Moore
passed the house and saw the servant girl
half dressed standing on the porch over the
door. She said the house had been burg.
larized. The officer telephoned to police
headquarters and Sergeant Driscoll soon ar,
rived in the patrol wagon. The officers found
the burglar had entered window in the
rear opening to the pantry. He had creeped
in through an aperture not over ten inches
wide.
The girl said she had been awakened by
the burglar, who seized her and, holding q
pistol to her head, threatened to shoot her II
| she called for help. The whole family were
at the charity ball, where Mr. Eastsrbrook
was prominent as committeeman, and the
| girl was alone in the house. It was too dark
| for her to recognize the house breaker. She
| screamed and seized him by the wrist. His
wrist was small and delicate and she, although
not an especially powerful girl, was able to
throw him from her. She said he was 9
small and effeminate person. He became
alarmed after she had cried for help and
hurried from the room. He left the
house by the rear door, unlocking it by
turning key which ne found in the door
The girl was 80 frightened that she rushed
| to the portico and stood there half frozen
till abe was discovered by Officer Dich
| Moore.
The burglar must have been familiar with
| the premises. The police do not think II
| was the work of professional.
Mr.. Eastsrbrook was called from the Hy-
| perion and thorough examination of the
house wss made, but 1t was not apparent
that anything had been taken.