The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-10
WHO ARE THE ROBBERS?
The Hill Invaded BY Burglars
The Police Relicent.

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Henry Clay keenan, are diligently scour'
ing the vicinity of Magnolia avenue te
disco yer any traces of the robbers who
rapsackel the house OF Mr.. Charles
Hanks. No. 154 Magnolia avenue. Thurs
day night. AS yet they have found not
the reinotest hint as TO the identify of he
burglars, and il is probable that they
never will. This Is the third series OF rob
berries perpeurated in the neighborhoni
during the last three months The OH e r
victims are Col. J. J, Toffey and Andre W
j. Post, and the iniruders have carried
off articles intending money, valued ut
from $1,000 to $4,000. The robheries at the
time We're chronicled In the THE JERSE Y
CITY NEWS. The police have maintained
tue str:cte,t secrecy and u v denied that
such depredatiDns were being committed
80 far as they know, although there Is
positive proof thai they a been work
ing on the cases since.
sOu Thursday afternoon" Mrs. Hanks
told a NEWS reporter. in explaining the
burglary, "a man of good appearances.
and wearing q dark suit and au outing
shirt, knocked at the back door and asked
Tor something to eat. Imerely looked at
him, aud WAS astonished at his, being =
beggar, he seemed so respectable. He all
the time tried to look over my head 10 see
as much rs he could of the inside of the
house. / refused him anything to
eat and he left. Thursday after
noon, being my girls day off,
1 went down town to visit my
father-in-law about half-past one. My
husband and / took ten hen and return ed
about ten O'Clock. When we got inside
the house we found Things all TO psy-
turvy, the bureau drawers scattered
around and all nv jswelry boxes ran
sacked. and the place where we Kept our
valuable triDkets pillaged. | suppose
$500 would cover the ID stolen"
An attempt was also made TO enter the
house of Mr.. john Headden. Jr., Secre-
tary of the Hudson City Savings Bank.
at No. 1913 Magnolia avenue opposite Mr..
O'Clock when Mr.. Headden, who had just
returned from Colonel Toffey's house.
where Il Whist game had been played.
climbed in bed, when the watch dog in
the cellar commenced growing and
barking furiously, Mr.. Headden ran
down stairs with a revolver. and was in
time to hear the front gate clink, and a
man run swiftly down the street.
1t is the opinion of the residents in that
locality that the beggar who came for the
bread trusts is the guilty man. The
same person called at the residence OF
Mrs. O'Dehling, at No. 1856. She gave
him a piece OF Die crust.
She said to a NEWS reporter that an
attempt WINS made TO break Into her
house on Wednesday, night. IEwas be-
tween twelve and one O'CLOCK and she
was unable to sleep. While she lay III
bed she heard II sound as of some one at
ten pting TO force open a window. In
vestigation proved that she was corre C t
in her surmise, but the person had fled.
A NEWS reporter was told by Justice
Birdsall, who lives on Magnolia avenue,
- - a~ln II kpnrnfpv @ runIl-o ~ "a n rI :, .r
men called at the house and asked ii Mr..
Tones was In.
II did not notice particularly" con-
tinued the Justlc, that the man acted In
any suspicious at the time, buI
now that l recall the incident, RENE m
Der that be tried to get d view OF the in
terror of the house.
Il told him that MIR. Jones did not live
here, and that he must have got the
wrong house. | saw him go next door,
and supposed he asked for Mr.. Jones
there.
ABOUT 25 minutes after his man
left, another, also we'll dressed, rang the
bell and inquired for Mr.. johnson. The
servant who went to the door told the
MAI that Mr.. johnson did not live in
that house. The man thanked her and left.
| asked the girl what tine man wanted,
and she told me. She said that tha man
seemed inpatient for her to open the
wide, for she only had it partly
opened. so as he might look inside. l
haven't anv idea who the man were. l
nave my own opiuions about +, however,
which l shall keep to myself"
Mr.. Headdeu, who lives at No. 153 Mag
nolia avenue, said that last night ABOUT
one o'clock he heard peculiar noises down
stairs. and, upou investigation, ascer-
tanned that a man was prying the kitchen
window from the outside. The house
stands next to tina of Colonel Toffey, aud
Mr.. Headden says that some one in
Colonel Toffey's house evidently heard
the noise also, for q window was
raised and some one polluted a pis-
toll at the man, who ran for his
life. The pistol failed to explode, how
ever. MI. Headden also said that as late
as ten O'Clock at night he has been both
cred by bsggars who request food, or peo-
pie ENDURING for Messrs. Jones, Robin
son or Johnson.
The ladies' in the neighborhood are in n
high state of excitement and lose con
siderable sleep, fearing that some burg
lar will take them uuawares. Everyone
who has not q watchdog wishes he has.
Mr.. Headden added that he has heard
several persons express their Intention of
moving from the neighhorhood, so infest-
ed is it by burglars aud beggars.