Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-06
BOLD And DARING BURGLARS
Their Desperate RcDbcry of
Robert Smiths Rouse.
WOMEN SCARED AND BEATEN
Forced to Give Zip the Mon~y
to the Burglars.
One OF tho Most Daring outras-s Ever
Comnitted Ia THIS City--A sIidusuht
Vfnit OF Three Burglars Il. House,
They Succeed In Stealing s5s aud
Making Their EscApr.

Burglars entered the horise Of hobart
Smith, at No 14o3 Rodney st.yet
shortly before 1s O'Clock Saturday
a!ehi, brutally dubbed and choked he
inmates and robbed them of t57 IL
money. The inmates OF the houee a.
the time were Robert Smith, his house
keeper, Mrs. Maria Chapman, Mrs.
Chapman's niece, Mrs. Angelina and
Joseph King, q boarder.
Mrs. Angelina was awakened abopt
lao o'clock by person entering her
bed room. She began 10 scream aad
the intruder made gra5 for her throat,
at the same time exclaiming, ~ want
the money. Give me the money" Mrs.
Angelina not being able to articulate a
word, owing to the tight grasp the rob
Der had upon her throat, did not reply.
whereupon the voice said agsin, WHARF
is the money!" Mrs. Angelina then
recognized the voice as that Ct Amos
Tucker, who had iene some work
about the house duriug tho past week
and she exclaimed
'Let me so, Tucker. | know yoli."
This angercd the burglar, and turning
to companion who had come apon the
scene, he said grufily, "1ise nc that
knife, Harry" and addressing tho
woman again, he said, a am going TO
kill you."
The companion at this moment made
an attempt to pass the knife to Tucker,
but at the same time he dropped /, on u
rug under the bed. Repeated search
failed to find the weapon, and Tucker
frightened his grasp on the woman's
throat and demanded that she tell him
where the money was concealed. Mrs.
Angelina replied that the money was in
the trunk, and that the key was in the
bureau drawer down stairs. Tucker
then rushed down stairs and his com.
panion followed with Mrs. Angelina,
who showed him where the money was.
The noise awakened Mr.. Smith and
| Mrs. Chapman, who were sleeping in
apartments adjoining on the first floor,
and when the burglars saw that they
were awake they cautioned them against
making any cutlery at tile peril Of their
lives. Joseph King, an elderly mat,
was also occupying apartments on the
first ioor Of the house, and when he
was awakened by the noise, he de-
manded to know what was going on.
One of the burglars replied in a dis
guised tone of voice that everything was
all right, and, thinking the voice that Of
Mrs. Chapman, King did no. allow him
self TO become agita;ed, and fell aeleep
again.
| Securing the money, the two Elen, re-
inforced by third burglar, at once lc;'t
the house and made their escape. ~
| soon as the mon were ont of sight Mrs.
Chapman rushed into the street crying
murder" and as no one responded 10
! her calls for help, the woman aroused
Joseph King, and the couple went TO
the d. & o. railroad station, whey they
found Officer Shearer, who returned
with them to the house. Meantime the
robbers had disappeared and the last
seen of them was after they boarded a
| Delaware avenue car going towards
Market street. A search was afterwards
made of the Smith premises and the
officers found the knife lost by the bur-
g,ars in Mrs. Angeine's bed room, a
bundle of gag ropes with loops al
ready for binding the inmates; two
heavy hickory clubs and heavy piece
of iron used as Jimmy"
Two Of the robbers are known to the
police authorities. The man Amos
1 Tucker, who was recognized by Mrs.
Angelina, was at one time engaged at
the Wilmington pulp works. He did
some upholstering work for Mr.. Smith
last week, and when the latter came TO
pay him he had not the money in change
and asked Mrs, Angelina to loan him
SO. Mrs. Angelina said she had not the
money with her, but would 60 TO her
trunk and secure it. This is thought to
have arrested the suspicious of Tucker,
who heard the conversation, and the
thought of robbery at once seized Kim
with desire to carry out the deed.