New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-17
THIEVES CA USE LIVELY WORh.
A BOARDER FOUND ONE AND THREW HIM
DOWN THE STAIRS.
HE WAS AFTERwARD DISCOVERED IN ANOTHER
HOUSE AssEMBLYMAN HALCoMB'S AND
ALDERMAN MEAD's HOUSES ENTERED.

ALDERMAN MEAD's HOUSES ENTERED
-Four policemen, thief and number OF inmates OF
the boarding house at No. 80 West Sixteenths kept
that street in an uproar between the hours OF ana
o'clock YESTERDAY morning. The clearinghouse Is
kept by a Mrs Walker, and the thief who caused all
the trouble is Samuel Ross negro twenty-five years
old OF No. 1913 West Twenty-seventh-st.
Ross was waiter in the boarding house until four
weeks ago. when he was discharged. Since the time
OF his discharge numerous articles have been missed
by the boarders Yesterday morning at O'Clock Mrs
Forian Friedman, one Of the boarers, was awakened
by the sound made by the opening OF bureau drawer
She aroused her husband who at once sprang from te
bed Mr. Friedman had left the gas burning low when
he retired but when he got up he found the room In
darkness The burly form of man doomed up In the
gloom and Mr.. Friedman who is a big man himself
sprang upon the thief terrific struggle ensued ana
the men found themselves out in the hall. Mrs
Friedman lighted the gas and screamed for help The
other boarders in the house came from their rooms
lust as Mr. Friedman raised the thief above his heah
and threw him. with full force, over the banister 10
the floor beneath. The man landed on his head Inc
fall did not appear TO have hurt him, as he gathered
himself up and ran 10 the onlng-rOom anu ouV Vi 'o
window to the back yard
The boarders set ont In chase, but the negro dls-
appeared over the fence. In the meantime the
women had aroused the neghborhood with their screams
and four policemen appeared on the scene Among
them was Officer Opp Of the nineteenth Precinct
thorough search of all the adjoining houses and yad'
was made but the thief was not found, ana INC
policemen gave up the search.
Half an hour later while Olpp was patroing his post
he heard a women scream and fastened to No 40 West
seventeenthst., where he heard the sounds TIC
tound there two servants, who had been left In
charge Of the house while the family were absent
for the summer. The girls were holly frightened
and told the officer that they had heard mysterious
In afraid
stairs Olpp went into the house and downstairs to the
kitchen. He heard scuf1ing sound IN the pantry
and opened the door. man sprang ont ana atempted
to grab one Of the women screaming time ensued
but quiet was restored when Olpp drew his re
volver and threatened to kill the If he did not
throw up his hands and surrender. The negro did
and Olpp snapped the handouts on him.
On the way to the station house it learned that
the prisoner was Sam" Ross. who had caused the
uproar In the boarding house. He told the policeman
that David Burke waiter in the house had let him in
so that he could steal Burke arrested, and when
| jefferson Market Court opened both were arraigned
Ross was charged with petit larceny, and was held
| in $500 for examination. and Burke remandeh
| In Ress's pockets found numerous pawn tickets
thief broke into Assemblyman Wright Holcomb's
house, at No AZ Barrowst., about O'Clock on Sunday
morning and stole the Assemblyman's suit of clothes
which lay on chair by his bed. The theft was not
discovered until the Assembyman awoke in the
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| captured him in peculiar way. About 1 O'Clock
Yesterday morning Mrs. Elizabeth Farron, who lives
in the same house. saw light in a vacant house at
| No IL Commercest. which directly in the rear
| She called Officer John Morton and told him. He went
around and found a colored man looking over somt
papers, and railroad passes. He arrested him and
| found that he was the man who had entered TIT
| Assemblyman's house. The clothes lie had pawned
| and the papers we're those he had taken from thu
| pockets. The prisoner gave his rame as Redmond
Porter and confessed the theft He said that he brok
a window IN the vacant house and climbed over thu
| sheds in the rear to the Assemblymans house. liz
only took the clothes There was no money in then
as tho Assemhlyman when he took them of removed
| 800 from the pockets and put it in the pocket o
his pightshirt Tbs Assemblyman went To Washington
| ON Monday SO Judge Mcmahon remanded the prs0ne
for examination.
Alderman Mead attended the meeting Of the New
York Democracy at Webster Hall Monday evening
| and while be was away thieves made merry In his
| house at No Is Barrow-st. The Alderman
| returned home at 12:45 O'Clock aud saw
coored man standing the curb opposite the house
His presence did not strike the Alderman as suspicious
| at the time, but afterward ii forcibly to his
| mind He opened the door and about 10 ascend
the stairs when he saw negro coming down with 6
big bundle on his back. As the man saw the
Alderman he dropped the bundle and made wild
leap for the door. He hit the Alderman on the head
and knocked him against the parlor door causing hin
TO lose his balance. Mr. Mead called to his brother
for help, but before Ne arrived the burglar made ht
escape The bundle. which the man was carrying u
his confederates outside contained clothing did alsC
another bundle, which was found in the hallway or
the second floor
The arrest OF Redmond Porter the colored man whC
entered Assemblyman Holcomb's house In the sam,
street. leads the authorities TO believe that he is ht
same man who attempted to rob the Aderman's house