The herald., 1895-10-21
lie Secures Over $500 in Money
and JeweIry
CLOTHES ARE BADLY MIXED
Rooms Entered and People Robbie d
While They Are Asleep
1r. and Mrs. Stevenson, Foley Parker and
Frank Barnes Lose Between Them
S3oo-Work of Professional

One OF the most thorough jobs Of burg
larry that has been committed in this city
for some time past occurred early yester-
day morning at the residence OF Mr..
J. f. Stevenson at 652 South Hill street.
The house was entered shortly after
80 q. m. and all of the rooms ransacked
and in the neigh borhood of $500 in money
and jewelry carried away. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY done by a professional, for no less
than three roo MS in which persons we're
sleeping were entered and nobody
awakened.
The house is occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Stevenson, who live on the lower flour,
while they have rented rooms upstairs to
Mr.. Frank Barnes, of the Victor Wheel
company, and Mr.. Foley Parker, the
singer.
When Mr.. Parker awoke yesterday
morning he turned to a chair at the side
OF his bed to take his watch from his
clothes to learn the time, but failed to
find the ticker. He almost INN edately
after saw that the door from his room to
the hall was open and looking out noticed
pair OF trousers by the entrance Of the
room across ths hallway. He then real
Cured and got up and gave the alarm.
The burglar had gone through Mr..
Parker's clothes and taken his watch and
chain and locket and $64 in money,
which had been in one of the pockets.
The trousers belonging to Mr.. Parker
were discovered In the lower hallway
where they had evidently been carried by
the thief.
The room Of Mr.. Barnes who sleeps
on the second floor, was also entered and
his watch, chain and few trinKets and
some money taken. His pants were the
ones seen in the passageway bv Mr..
Parker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stevenson occupy the
second room from Hill street down stairs,
and they too were visited by the ma
rauder. Mr.. Stevenson pants were car
ried to the kitchen and there searched.
and were found in the morning. In the
hip pocket was canvas bag containing
$40 in gold, which was taken. From hi,
coat and vest were got about "a more in
loose change, these garments being found
In the front room. The work was most
thorough, for every crease and turn OF the
goods had been examined. Tie mileage
books were taken from the coat and Look
ed over and placed on top OF the leather
pocket case, while from the pocket of his
vest had been taken small pearl button
in the hope that il was money. Mrs.
Stevenson also lost a few trinkets and Jew
elry, but nothing Of great value. The
closet in which her clothes were kept
was searched and the dresses thrown on
the floor. but nothing was missed from
there. Sharp as were the eyes OF the bur
glar, he failed TO get all that was within
reach. for lying on a table in the room of
Mr.. and Mrs. Stevenson was ring and
an elegant set of gold beads. The reason
these were missed is probably because
the cloth on the ia BILE was similar in APP
pearance to the valuables, and escaped the
eyes OF the fellow.
Whoever committed the burglary must
have been PROFESSIONAL and also have
had a dark lantern, for nothing was
knocked over and the job done with neat
ness and dispatch. 1..s.
1t is thought that entrance was'effeoted
through the front door with the aid of
a skeleton key. and the exit by the rear,
as the latter was found open the next
morning. About the only clue secured
was footprint in the soft earth in the
back yard. The people do not think they
were drugged as there is no evidence OF
it, The last person living there to 60 IN
to the mouse was Mr.. Parker, and he car
ried about 1 80 a. M, so the robbery must
have occurred soon after he went home.
One of the neighbors in the next house
heard some one go down the rear steps
shortly after l 80 O. clock, but thought it
was the milkman.
The affair was reported to the police.