The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-09-15
BarefOOted Bill No Other Than VIM.
HOOpii, a Native Hawaiian.
HE MAKES A CONFESSION.
Recurd Of Over Forty BurClarIes
Committed During the Past
Three Months.

Sunday night was celebrated by Bare
footed Bill, or some one of the company
OF burglars who are grouped under his
name, in breaking into the stores Of
Theo. H. Davies q Co., NJ. Phillips and
Ii. w Schmidt & Sons. The entry at
Davies d Co. was effected by the sky
light opening into the garnet, and from
there by trap door in the ceiling of the
storeroom. The drop to the floor was a
long one, but it was effected in some way
OF which no trace was left The visit to
Davies Il Co. was a perfectly fruitless
one, nothing having been missed. A
pair Of boots was carried as far as the
door, but was lett there, just inside the
iron shutters. The burglar was doubt
less weary OF being called barefooted,
but new boots squeak and are not suited
10 the wants of burglars.
a good deal of ingenuity was shown by
this energetic night visitor at II. W.
Schmidt & Sons. The entry was effected
from an inner court-through barred
window. One bar was bent aud parti-
ally wrenchad from its place. How the
burglar c,.r got as far as the window at
all is 4 mystery. In the lower part of
the store he pried open several drawers,
opening one desk from the top by
smashing the cover, but nothing was
found but papers which he managed to
disarrange. Cigars were in this desk,
but none were missed. The burglar
carried several bottles of wine from
where they were stored and planted
them in the middle of the floor. He
opened bottle of Madeira, but did not
taste it. 1t was California Madeira and
possibly not suited to his palate. After
running around below, where he OBJ
tanned nothing except 81, the property
of one of the clerks, the burglar pro-
ceeded upstairs and opened one Of the
makai windows looking into an inner
court back of SPROUTS. About eleven
feet above him and the same distance to
the left was the main wall of the stores
fronting on the street. The burglar
wished to scale this wall. A joist pro-
jected from it about three feet, doubt
less for hosting up merchandise. This
furnished the hint needed. The burglar
turned into the store again, unrolled
long, narrow piece OF figured cloth and
making it fast TO the iron hinge, threw
it from the window over the joist. 1t
was a hard throw, but it succeeded; the
end of the roll passed over the joist and
fell to the ground, which it more than
reached. Fastening a second roll of
stout cloth to the hinge. the burglar
lowered himself to the bottom of the
court, where he grasped the first strip,
climbed it hand over hand, and in a
moment found himself on the roof.
The burglar boycotted SPROUTS and
Notes and stepped on over the roof to
Nj. Phillips, the store lately occupied
by G. w. Macfarlane & Co. Here an
entry was effected, as at Davies & Co.'S,
by the trap door. The burglar fitted
himself with new hat and suit of
clothes of dark blue serge, and then
went down stairs and opened drawers,
prying the Yale locks open and getting
at the others by boring three holes with
a brace and bit just above the lock. The
drawers contained nothing but papers OF
no value to thief.