Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
A BAD, BOLD BURGLAR
Keeps The London Suburban Police
Continually in a Stew.
HE has ROBBED SIXTY HOUSES,
And No Amount of Warning Has Been
able to Head Him f.
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HIS HAMMER COOL AND SUCCESSFUL
tBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH ]

l. 81. [BY CABLE TO THE DIsPATCH.1
LONDON, Dec. PA Copyright 1.-The po'
lice throughout England are industriously
earching for man whom thew describe as As
years old, Of gentlemanly bearing, with a
dark, heavy moustache, fresh complexion,
and wearing a dark fashionable overcoat,
drab trousers, dark Bowler hat and brown
kid gloves. This interesting individual
was seen strolling about the grounds Of
Leigh court, Lady Miles Somersetshire
man sion, Saturday and Sunday afternoon,
and vas supposed by the servants to be q
visitor.
Monday evening this gentlemanly person
looted Lady Miles bedroom of e30 900
worth of jewelry, and then vanished into
space. The police believe that he walked
across the country to a station on the main
line of the Great Western Railway, caught
an express train to London, and proceeded
thence without delay to Amsterdam, where
he disposed Of his booty, and is now enjoy
ing himself in Paris.
A Robber of Sixty Houses.
The same man has robbed within the past
five years at least so suburban and country
is no doubt that he is the man who paid q
fying visit to the rural retreat of Henry
White, Secretary of the United States lega-
tion, about two years ago, and carried back
with him Mrs. White jewels.
This man Is most daring operator, of
consummaIe nerve and exquisite tact. He
has been in several tight places, but has
always pulled through. His modSs
operandi varies but slightly, and people
with country houses and Jewels have fire.
quentlY read of his exploits, but they seem
incapable of taking warning by the fate of
others.
The man never trusts to chance He in
variably studies with care the scene of his
contemplated operations, and plans before
hand the manner and direction of his re-
treat. If there are many men in the house
he fixes wire on q cord across the main
path in the grounds, too thin to be seen in
the darkness of the night, but strong
enough to trip over excited pursuers.
Various Means of Avoiding Arrest.
Sometimes he fixes up the hall door in
such a manner that it can be opened only
with extreme difficulty and delay, and he
invariably fastens from the inside any room
he may have to enter, but he never goes
into room from a window which he could
not reach from the ground below.
He invariably enters the house in the
evening when the family are at dinner
through an upper window which he
reaches by ladder which he rarely fails to
find about the grounds or in some outbuild-
ing. If undisturbed he takes the trouble
to conceal as far as possible all traces of his
visit, unfastens the door and removes the
ladder out of sight before making final
farewell-all of course with the object of
delaying discovery and thereby decreasing
the chances of his being closely pursued.
ipos in then the nsWspapers and bave rSI taken % the
trouble to draw up model set of precau-
tIons calculated to Illustrate this accom-
plished scoundrelis designs, but without
avail against the apparently inherent care
lsssness of owners Of valuable property.