The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-18
TWO DARING BURGLARS
THEY MAKE a BOLD EFFORT TO ROE
the HOUSE or DIR. JACOB EDEL.
Servant Bound Hand and Foot and Com
minded Mt the Point Of Knife to Keep
Quiet-Her Screams Save TIM Jewels.

one OF the most daring and apparently
mysterious attempts at burglary that
ever occurred in this city took place
at the residence OF Mr.. Jacob Edel No.
5i4 west Franklin street. last night some
time between and s o'clock.
Mr.. Edel was out OF the city. and Mrs.
Edel had gone over to visit some friends
across the street. It was nearly s O'Clock
when frantic screams were heard in Mr..
Edel's residence. and I'm short time "A
large crowd Of excited people gathered
about the place. Messrs. Whitlock and
Meyers hearing the screams evidently
those or a woman, rushed over 10 the
house, and found the front door open.
They found I'm the servants room. which
Is on the second floor, and separated from
the main building by a little piazza. one
OF the servants a colored woman named
Florina Jefferson. She was bound hand
and foot by a table cloth, which had
been taken from a table I'm her room.
and torn into small strips for this pur-
pose.
The woman was greatly frightened, but
was unhurt No marks Of violence were
found on her.
BY this time Captain Hulce. Sergeant
Cousins, and officers Barfoot and Harris,
OF the Third p0lice-station, were on the
scene and to the captains, the servant
fIorina stated that she had been read
Ing the papers up 20 a little after O'Clock,
when an old colored woman who had been
in the service of the family for many
years, left the house, and bolted the back
gate. Soon after this she herself went
10 bed. and had no idea how long she had
been asleep, when she was walked by
some one in the house.
Soon afterwards two white men ap-
peared at her door, and told her that il
she screamed they would Kill her. One
Of them was a tall, clean-shaven-faced
man, and well dressed. He carried in his
hand long knife. The other was low,
poorly dressed fellow. OF the tough or
der and had a coal-pit lamp, which was
lighted. They soon left her, and began
ransacking the house. She knew nothing
else, until some one came to her assist
ance.
Captain Hulce and his men made n
careful examination Of the entire house.
He learned that the front door had been
left open, and the lights out Every
drawer. closet and sideboard I'm the house
had been pillaged. but so far as could
be learned nothing was stolen except two
small plain gold rings and $3.50 I'm money
which were taken from a little toy trunk
In Mrs. Edels sleeping apartment.
The lock to the toy trunk was broken
by means Of screw-driver found i'm
the attic. No other locks in the house
had been tempered with. Two Of the
bureau drawers in Mrs. Edeps room were
ransacked, but nothing taken. In the
top drawer OF the dresser were locked
up Mrs. Edefs jewels. No attempt had
been made TO get these.
All the silverware IN the dining-room
was accessible to the intruders. but was
left undisturbed, while I'm the centre
OF the parlor was a large pile of vases,
statuettes. mantle ornaments. and brio
a-brac, and a piano cover lying on the
floor "a one side. Nearly every portion
Of the house was ransacked but with the
exception of the rings and money moth
ing was missed.
There is no clue 20 the burglars. Cap
tain Hulce and his assistants. who are
working up the case. stated last night
that IL was one Of the most mysterious
cases they had ever known IL is be-
lieved that the burglars had planned the
attempt 50 as 10 secure the diamonds
and other jewels which were locked in
a bureau drawer. but were frightened
OFF by the screams Of the woman.