The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-31
CrackSmen Make Their Way
Into the jewellers
Big Safe.
THEY KNEW THE SPOT TO EIT
And the Proprietor Had Things
Nicely Fixed 10 Facilitate
Their Work.
NET Loss....~ 49,. $4,000

The large Marvin fire-proof safe In
which Jeweler AldoIph Walters Of No. IS
Newark avenue stores his valuables after
closing hours, was cracked by burglars
last night. The marauders made of with
over 50 600 worth of rings set with dia-
monds, garnets, turquoise and pearls
There Is not the slightest clue as to who
the burglars are.
While the job was neatly done and is
evidently the work of professionals, had
Mr.. Walters arranged matters for them
and extended an invitation his arrange
ments for their convenience could have
only been more complete by leaving the
doors of his safe open.
HOW THEY GOT N.
En- trance to the store was effected
tn rough the sKylight over the one-story
workshop in the rear of the store. Behind
the workshop are several wood bins or
sheds, but little larger than ordinary dog
kennels. BY climbing over several OF
these with the aid of ordinary step lad
ders. the roof of the workshop Is easily
reached. These ladders were already in
the yard, one fifteen foot ladder. The
burglars removed q glass frame from the
skyiight and gently lowered the fifteen
foot ladder down to the workshop moor.
The opening made was large enough for
an ordinary man 70 crawl through.
The safe stands in the rear OF the front
store, separated from the workshop only
by a thin plank partition which separates
the store from workshop in the rear. A
curtain suspended bv rings runs from one
side of the front of the safe to the wall:
Behind this curtain were shelves stocked
with clocks. The burglars quietly bored
a few augur holes in one Of the blanks o I
the rear partition. took out panel, re-
moved the clocks and the shelves to the
workroom and went quietly 10 work on
the side of the safe with the curtain
shielding them from the view Of police.
men or pedestrians passing the front Oh
HOW DID THEY FIND OUT ALL THIS,
The burglars had evidently familiarized
| themselves with the exact location OF the
| trays inside the safe containing the dia-
| monds. They rested beneath the draw
ers of the safe on the curtained side. The
safe is not burglar proof; Tne burglars
| through the quarter-inch boiler-iron outer
| wall OF the safe. Then inserting a short
heavy crowbar with sharp bent point
| known as q tearer, they began 20 tear
away aud cut hole in the outer wall
about six by four inches. Then they
4
| composed of alum and plaster. The In.
ner wall is of wood but lined with sheet
/ iron. A hole was then cieanly cut clear
through the seven inch side OF the safe
/ large enough for a man "a
insert his arm. 1t was but the work OF
moment then to remove the two trays
| containing the diamond and otner
| valuable rings just above this tray was
| a drawer containing over one thousand
| dollars worth of gold watches. This.
| however. was not molested; and the safe
| contained several thousand dollars worth
of jewelry besides, just how much Mr.
| Walters refused to state, as ne SAID II
| would look like Dragging.
| There is another mark on the side OF the
safe where the burglars commenced tc
| urill hole.
Nothing else In the store was touched.
COOL WORK.
| The burglars carefully removed all
tags and papers from the IeWelry, ahu
| left a heap OF the white tags lying on the
| floor in the work shop. This was done
| probably to render it more difficult to
| identity the property.
| Clerk Hollobach, Mr.. Walters nephew.
found them when he opened the store al
half-past seven this morning. The Lad,
| der. the torn panel, the hole In the side ol
| the safe, told him the story in an in
| slant.
After climbing over the sheds alluded
! to above. the thieves had open grou nd Il
| a seven foot fence on Railroad avenue
| where the retaining walls Of the Pennsyl
| yania Railroad form a dark and lonely re-
| treat.
THE MISSING yALUABLEs.
The list of missing property handed
| Chief of Police Murphy this morning in
| cluded one hundred ladies' rings, with
garnet, turquoise and pearl setting, fortl
| single stone diamond ring, and other:
| with diamonds surrounded with pearls
! garnets and turquoise. He made careful
estimate of the cost, and figured 1t a
| s., 3,025.
arhe work" said the chief" is that o.
professional burglars who had carefully
laid out the job. The cutting into tbs
| safe, should say. took less than a n hour
Such burglars are seldom caught Tner'
are a dozen or more working In New
| York and vicinity. They usually work in
| gangs of four The New York anC
| Brooklyn police were notified as soon q:
| the discovery was made. Mr.. Walters /:
| fortunate in being memb er OF the jew
| eller's Alliance, whose det ectives Will rs
sist the local authorities in working NJ
| the case. / have already had cir
culars printed describing the prop
erty and they will be sen
| out this afternoon. Patrol man Heath
| who was on that post in the early nour'
| last night, has been Obliged TO send fol
| Mr.. Walters at night TO have the cur tair
| drawn aside, imagining he saw the cur
| tain move Patroiman Mohrenstein wa
| on the beat lasl.
| Mr.. Walters store was burglarized onc'
| before and considerable property stolen
| This is the second successful attempt ou
OF six that have been made to rob III,
| jeweler.