The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-24

A DESPERATE THIEF
Failing to Ch1oroform His
Victim He C1ubbed and
Shot Him.
DoRRIs WILL RECOVER.
Robber Warned by the Daughters
outcry-E Escaped Over the
Back Fence.

collector Tor the Kings County trust Com
pany, living at No. 507 Sixth avenue, this
morning, having failed to chloroform the
inmates of the house, pounded Mr.. Doris
over the head with his pistol, shot him ano
then made good his escape by the rear.
| He left his burglars tools behind in his
| hurried flight, and, in escaping, must have
walked directly between and In plain sight
of Policemen Ansart and Knight, who re-
sponded to the cries of ssPolicen Yet
neither is able to describe him, and the pro
liability is he will never be caught.
The traces the man left behind make il
very plain that there was only one man con
cerned in the job and what his movements
| were.
The fellow carried steel jimmy 2O1s
inches long He had drawn piece of rub
Der pipe over the top of the Jimmy to pro
tect his hands. With this heavy instrument
| the fellow forced the back basement window
The prints of the iron in the wood show
where he fastened it to pry OFF the catch.
| forced it up with such force that it broke in
two and flew partly across the room. He en-
tered here and lighted the dark lantern that
| he carried.
A black mark near the window on the
white wall shows where be struck the match
l rTOIn Inc DaSeIueuU Uu6 burglar Woue uP-
| stairs. Nobody slept on the next hoor. On
| the floor above are three rooms. In the
rear bedroom, just at the head of the stairs,
1 Mr. Doris slept alone. In the large front
room his daughter, Tillie slept. She is about
| twenty-five years old. In the hall bedroom,
| next to her room, slept Miss Doris, Mr.
Doris elderly sister. These three consti-
| tuted the household.
The burglar made his entrance, the detec-
tives say, at just half-past three o'clock this
morning. At that time the family was
soundly sleeping.
The burglar must have surveyed the sleep
ers with his light before he began work
Seeing that Mr. Doris was the only man in
the house. the marauder began on him.
TRIED TO cHLoRoFoRM DoRRIS.
He carried bottle of chloroform and a
big red and black checked handkerchief. He
pressed the handkerchief over Mr.. Doris
mouth and poured on the liquid.
Mr.. Doris said that when he was a young
man he took chloroform when having teeth
extracted, and that ever since the smell of it
has made him sick He thinks this fact
caused him to wake up.
As he awoke he had the sensation of a
hand pressing hard down over his nose. He
tried to lift his head. The robber pushed
him back Still Doris was not wide enough
awake to grasp the whole situation.
When he was wide awake he began to
|
with some heavy instrument. The blow
knocked him back. The police say the cut
in the head shows that the blow was struck
with the barrel of large pistol. Whether
the man struck several times or not, Doris
can't say.
He was very much excited, and, besides,
the first blow dazed him. He still struggled
to rise. He had got as far as sitting up in
the far end of the bed when he heard the
rObbor saw
ssIll fix you, damn you"
"Then | saw the bright glitter of his
pistol, +" said Doris, land the shot was fired.
At that moment heard my daughter in the
room in front begin to scream. feared she
had been shot. After firing the burglar
ran away.
I'm the excitement, didn't feel the bull
let wound ran into the room to see if
Tillie were hurt. She cried out:-'Oh,
papa you are bleedingr Then discovered
had been shot"
MISS TILLIE GAVE THE ALARM.
Tillie had not been hurt. She had been
awakened by the scuffiing of her father and
the burglar. Her yelling, that Mr.. Doris
speaks of was done with her head out of the
front window. She shouted ssPolicel" and
s'Murderp'
Policeman Ansart of the Eighth precinct
was on the corner, not fifty yards away He
came on the run. When he bounded up the
IfOnl steps ne louuu DObn AIOut uOOES OPeu
about foot.
Tillie Doris shouted from the top of the
stairs what the trouble was Ansart ran
back to the corner. He sent in an alarm for
all the detectives and reserves to the Eighth
precinct, which is at Fifth avenue and Six
teenth street. He also sounded help alarm
for his partner on the next beat.
Luckily he was on the corner above
Seventh avenue and Twelfth street. It was
Policeman Knight He came running down.
Ansart advanced across Sixth avenue to
meet him. As Ansart stood there and
Knight came running up toward him, some
man, short and stout, wearing light coat
and derby hat came from somewhere and
walked hurriedly toward Seventh avenue.
He was going on Twelfth street At one
time he was almost on a line between Knight
and Ansart 1t is believed now that this
fellow was the robber. The policemen did
not think Of this at the time, so they let
him go.
HOW HE EFFECTED AN ESCAPE.
After the robber had fired the shot he ran
down stairs. He left his dark lantern on the
second step of the stairs where he had appar-
entity put it before he tried to choloroform
Mr.. Doris.
He dashed down the stairs, dropping the
jimmy he carried at the foot of the main
hall He then bounded down into the base
ment and then had gone through the window
at which he had entered.
The man must have made very quick time
getting out Of the back yard. He did not
leave footprint that can be discerned. If
he scrambled over the back fence into the
adjoining lot he left one footprint.
It was small foot. Detective Sergeant
McC Cormack measured it. The foot that
made it must have slipped little. Even at
that the print only measured ten inches long
and three and one-haf wide, outside meas
urement.
Ansart and knight, after meeting, went
into the house. They picked up the tools
the burglar left and found the handkerchief
he had used on the floor beside the bed.
That the unknown man opened the front
door they do not doubt, He probably pre-
pared 1t for hasty exit If he should need
one.
He needed one, but did not use the one he
prepared The reason is that Tillie Doris
all the time was crying for the police in
front, SO he judiciously chose the latter
way for escape.