The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-07
THE BUSY BURGLAR
He Works Hard These Cool
Nights.
Two Thousand Dollars Worth of Silks
Stolen From 1endelSon Brothers
by Two Thieves.

The store of Mendelson Bros, importers
OF silks. at 100 Battery street. was entered
by burglars on Monday night and goods
valued at $1,000 were stolen. The crime
was reported 10 the police yesterday morn
ing and Detective Silvey was detailed to in
vestigate.
Mendelson Bros. occupy the second story,
while the first floor is used as place for
storing mating by Easton e. Schwartz of
III Battery street. Between this room and
the stairway leading to Mendelson's store is
a thin wooden partition.
There is little doubt that the burglary was
committed by two men who stopped to
examine the lower floor Monday afternoon.
They noticed that the iron doors were left
unfRstened and entered. When asked IL
they wanted anything the men said that
they desired TO rent a store. They In
quired about a lease and departed. Ii is
supposed that they returned before dark
and concealed themselves behind the rolls
of mating. During the night they bored
holes through the partition and made an
opening large enough to crawl through.
They then went up the stairway and made
a selection of the finest silks in the place
In all they took about $1,000 worth. mostly
handkerchiefs. and departed the way they
entered.
A good disciple of F. Ii. Weber. the
trousers-maker who robbed q dozen DWELL
ings and stole several thousand dollars
worth OF tewelry before he was captured,
is William Francis Kayanagh, the burglar
who was arrested early Monday morning
while drilling into the safe of Himmel-
mann & Heinz meat market on Union
street. Kavanagh was fully identified yes
terday. He was also tailor and for q long
time kept a little shop on Larkin street.
He lived with his wife and child at 500
I'D lie
and was buried June IL A week later
Kavanagh told story TO the Coroner that
caused Mrs. Kayanagh's body to bo disin-
TERED and removed from Calvary Cemetery
TO the Morgue. More than this Kavanagh
accused certain physicians connected with
the Hahnemann Hospital with having per-
formed a criminal operation that caused the
woman's death. At the inquest the accused
physicians were exonerated, and 1t was
shown that Kavanagh bad been trying to
blackmaii them. After that he drank hsav-
lily, lost his tailor's shop and finally cropped
out as full-fedaed safe-rracker
j. A. Burns. an ex-convict. and Fritz
jaeger are sharp-fcatured young men who
played the JeByl-and- Hyde act In this city
for several months before they were cap
tureG. Both were arrested by Detective
Charley Cody last Sunday morning. They
were taken out OF the tanks" yesterday.
and each booked on two charges OF burg
larry.
Coy was approaching the corner OF Bush
and Powell streets last Sunday morning
when lie saw Burns and JAEGER carrying an
armful OF CO )enters' tools, which they
had just sto-eD from q new building on
Stockton street. between Pine and Caliior-
MIA. The men dropped their plumber and
ran. Cody chased Burns down Powell
street to Ellis, and captured him In saloon.
Later in the day Cody located jaeger in his
room at PIG Powell street, where he had
many stolen tools stored. at the sight of
the officer jaeger fed.
Cody finally cornered JAEGER In the rear of
paintshop at 2l0 Powell. where he had
also "planted" stolen tools. JAEGER had
leased q portion Of the premises there for
the ostenslble purpose Of opening O carpen-
ter's shop.
Burns roomed at PIT Turk street. where
he had chest of stolen tools. Both pris-
oners have had records"
Up TO the dav Of their arrest both men
worked as carpenters.