Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-15
A BOLD ROBBERY.

savings Taksn Away
A daring daylight robbery was perpe-
trated at the house of Mrs. Mary s.
Burrows, No. SOB East Seventh street,
Friday afternoon, and the police are
| puzzled over the mysterious burglary.
Mrs. Burrows is widow with four
children, John r., William, Addie and
Margaret r. Burrows. The boys are en-
ployed at the shops of the Pullman
Palace Car Co., Miss Addie Burrows is
employed as book-keeper at the Man
haitian Laundry, while the other sister
! is seamstress in the employ of the
| Home for Friendless and Destitute Chill
dren. The amount of property stolen
was 800 worth Of jewelry, silyerware
and valuable trinkets, together with
| $500 in gold and greenbacks, which
were secreted in bureau drawer.
Mrs. Burrows says she left the house
about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon.
The rest of the family were absent from
home. Fearing she might not be home
when her sons returned from work at 8
o'clock she took the key of the front
| door across the street to Elisha II.
| Ewing's grocery store, which is at the
| southeast corner OF Seventh and Pine
streets. Mr.. Ewing, together with Mr..
| Bennett, his clerk, and Beaten Smith,
the druggist, were engaged in CONVERSE
ton. There was no one in the store and
| Mrs. Burrows handed the key to Mr..
Ewing as she came out, with instruc-
tions to give it to her son if he called for
it. Then Mrs. Burrows proceeded on
her errand. She returned about o'clock,
little sooner than she expected.
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| and entered the house by The front door,
not realizing that anything unusual had
| happened. When she reached the dining
room Mrs. Burrows was surprised to
see the cupboard door standing wide
open. She recollected that she had
closed it before leaving the house, but
thought perhaps one of her daughters
might have come home in the mean
time.
From the dining room she went to the
kitchen in the rear of the house. and her
surprise was increased on finding the
kitchen door open. She was careful to
| lock it before she went out, but failed to
close the shutters OF the window or
fasten the window down, although it
was in the same condition as when she
left it.
Mrs. Burrows next went down into
the basement to see if any of the family
was in the house, but finding no one
and receiving no response to her calls,
she hurried to the rooms upstairs.
The sight which met her gaze when
she reached the bedroom just to the
left of the stairway startled her for q
few moments. The bureau drawers
were all lying on the floor and the con-
tents scattered about the room, some
of them lying on the bed. From the
drawers were taken all of her daugh-
ter's silverware, including knives, forks,
spoons, gold ring, gold watch and chain
and golden trinket, valued altogether
at 800.
From this room with feelings of fear
and misgivings Mrs. Burrows crossed
the hall to another bedroom, and the
sight in this apartment was more start
ling than the other. Mrs. Burrows had
nearly all her savings in this room and
she feared that they had been taken
with the rest of the plumber.
Her fears in this direction proved to
be correct, for search of the second
bureau drawer revealed the fact that the
money was missing, together with some
pieces of valuable jewelry which were
hid away in the bureau drawers. The
money was in gold and greenbacks and
represented the savings of many months.
There was $500 in the box. 1t had been
given her from time to time by her sons
and had been boarded away by the
mother to support the family in case of
want or poverty.
Things in this room were also turned
tnneU.fur and orFinlao sc
were dumped out upon the floor or
thrown helter-skelter about the room,
The thief in his anxiety to secure the
plumber and escape from the building
unobserved, had overlooked o wallet
containing $35 which was secreted
under the bolster on the bed and also
small diamond pin belonging to Miss
Burrows, which was packed away in
small box of cotton and secreted in
corner of the same drawer which con-
tanned the money.
Inquiry of the neighbors living about
the corner of Seventh and Pine streets
failed to discover anyone who saw the
thief enter the house, and how he man.
aged to perpetrate so bold robbery in
broad daylight and escape with his
booty unobserved, is mystery which
not even the police in their wisdom are
able to solve, No one saw the guilty
party enter the house or emerge from
the yard in the rear, and this is all the
more surprising when it is known that
the neighborhood is one Of the most fire.
quented on the east side. There is n
drug store on the northeast corner of
Seventh and Pine and next door to it,
fronting on Seventh street, is the house
where the robbery occurred Friday
afternoon.
The entrance was made through an
alley leading from Pine street and in the
rear of the drug store. There is a gate
at the Pine street entrance to the alley,
which runs at right angles with the drug
store, and terminates at the dividing
fence between the house of Mrs. Bur
rows and No. COS East Seventh street.
The house No. Cos and Mrs. Burrows
are separated by high board fence
running along an alley extending from
Seventh street, so that in order to come
in from this alley the thief would have
TO scale nigh board fence.
1t Is believed that the thief entered
from the Pine street alley, and if this
was the case the high fence concealed
MIN from the neighbors of the east side
OF the house. Once in the rear yard the
thief had only to hoist the kitchen win
dow and crawl through. On going out
he left the kitchen door open and also
the alley gate on Pine street.
The police and state detectives are at
work on the case but so far the robbery
is an unsolved mystery.
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