The evening world., 1894-04-10
A BURGLARS GRAFT.
Horwitz's Fur House Looted
Twice Within Two Weeks,
Only One Block from the Mercer
Street Police Station.
Other Manufacturers In the Vicinity
Have Also suffered.

Ludwig 1Torwit2, n manufacturer Of
furs at go Mercer street. reported TO In.
speCtor Mclaughlin to-day that his place
was robbed last night of n quantity of
mink and other valuable furs.
The building where the robbery oc-
&C. red is Il two-story brick structure one
police station. on the opposite SIDE OF
the street.
The whole OF the upper floor Is occu.
pied 10y Mr.. Horwitz Entrance Is obtain
ed by stairway leading to the second
floor on the south side of The building.
There are three doors, one leading to
the flee In front. another into the store
room and the other into the manufactur-
ing department.
All Of the doors except that opening
into the office were secured by patent
locks and holted from the inside. The
robbers seem to have been acquainted
with this fact ana attacked the office
door. which they pricd open with
Jimmy"
The windows between the storeroom
and manufacturing department were
then pricd open and the place was ran
sacked
Several large bundles of mink skins
which had been left on the table were
handed through the window to II con
Tolerate. 1t is thought, and quantity
of loose muskrat skins in "A box under a
table in the rear room were also carried
away.
The thieves were frightened away. 1t
Is believed, before they were able to
open n number of large boxes containing
several thousand dollars worth of skins
About two weeks ago MIR liorwitzs
place vas broken into and robbed If sew
cral hundred dollars worth of skins and
manufactured goods. Since then tn"
remaining stock Of manufactured goods
had been disposed Of.
Mr. HorwitZ reported the robbery at
that time to Capt Eaksns. II" detailed
his two warl detectives upon the case
but they could obtain no clue To the
robbers.
After the first robbery Mr.. Horwl,z had
all the locks taken of and new patent
locks put on. He had the scuttle hole
iron bar. and had shutters placed on the
rear windows.
The day the work was completed, Mr.
Horwitz says, n stranger came to him to
See the plant: His request to be shown
through the factory was complied with
Mr.. Horwitz noticed that the stranger
was unusually observant and that he
paid particular attention to the improve
ments that had been made for the
curlty OF the place. But he did not
think of the stranger afterwards until
this morning at 6 o'clock, when he dis
covered that he had been robbed again.
He now suspects that his visitor was
the robber.
There are two other furriers who oc-
cupy apartments in the building. but no
attempt was made to enter their places
About year ago. however, Landau ~
Bienbaum, who occupied the ground
floor of the same building, were robbed
Of about 81, 900 worth OF skins and manu-
featured goods. The robbers were never
apprehended nor was any trace OF the
goods found although the pawn shops
were watched for two months after
wards.
About the same time Joseph Schleiter.
another manufa cturer of fur goods, on
West Third street, between Mercer and
Greene streets was robbed OF s., OOO worth
of goods.
Other robberies have occurred in the
neighborhOOd. but none Of so much i'm
portance.