The record-union., 1891-04-13
ESTHETIC BURGLARS.
A Large Quantity of Perfumery and
Hand-Mirrors Recovered.
They Were Stolen from a Drug Store
and Submerged In Slough
The Thieves.

On the night of the 18th of February
| last the drug store of Kirk, Geary 81 Co.
was entered by burglars. Evidently the
fellows had never heard the warming,
who enters here leaves hope behind, ;"
| for they plundered the showcases of the
| choicest brands of soap in the establish
ment. Ifthey did leave any behind them it
was because their pockets would hold no
more. Indeed, the fellows showed rare
discrimination in their selection of plum
! der.
| They were evidently of dudish proclivi-
ties, for they confined their pilfering to
such articles as costly cosmestics, per-
| fumeries, highly-scented soaps, combs,
brushes, hand-glasses and other toilet
novelties that would have graced the
| bourdoir OF a society belle.
NOTHING ELSE WANTED.
| The safe, which is in the rear of the
store, was not molested, neither was the
money-drawer, in which there were a
few dollars in silver. Entrance was
| effected from the rear, the burglars first
| gaining access to the basement, and then
prying open the rear door. Three dogs
occupied the store before the burglars
made their visit, but the next morning
there were but two. The other-a small
black-and-tan terrler-was probably car
ried off by the the visitors.
The police took au invoice of the lost
property and looked high and low for the
| burglars as well as the property. But
| they could get no clew TO either and
| finally gave up the search.
| On last Saturday, however, two gentle
| men, Frank Butler and John Lannigan,
! happened to be in the vicinity of the
| slough on Seventh street, between r and
| ), when they noticed rope, one end of
which was tied to fence, and the other
was submerged in the water. 1t was evil
| dent that something had been thrown
| into the water which it was desired to
haul up again. Butler and Lannigan in
vestigated and found that a well-filled
sack was on the end of the rope. It was
thought at first TO be dead dog, but sew
eral boys who were lettering in the vicin-
1ty volunteered TO open the sack. The
sack was found to contain a large guam
tity of hand mirrors, perfumery, toilet
sets in plush boxes, face powder, etc. I'M
mediately grand grabbing matcb''
was indulged in by the boys, and Butler
and Lannigan considered themselves for
tunate when they got five bottles of per-
fumery and two hand-glasses out of the
find.
TURNED OVER TO THE POLICE.
Yesterday, however, Mr.. Butler came
to the conclusion that the articles had
been stolen, and, after first reporting the
matter to the RECoRD-UNIoN office, he
visited the police station Officer Gibson
was detailed to look into the matter, and
in company with Mr.. Butler, managed to
recover all of the articles taken by, the
boys the day before. There were two or
three dozen bottles of choice perfumery
and about a dozen fine celluloid hand
mirrors. The face powder and plush
toilet-set boxes, brushes, ETC., were all so
badly damaged by the water that they
were not considered worth carrying into
town.
The police are satisfied that the burglars
have been arrested and jailed for some
other crime, or else were frightened out
of the city-and could not get back to
save the booty. There is no clue at pres
ent as to who the thieves were.