Evening star., 1895-04-01
oUT-OF-TOwN BURGLARS.
Believed to BE Perpetrnting Many
Bold RObberics.

DUH fAOuUcFIcbs
The bold and successful safe robbery this
morning is only one of series Of daring
robberies that have been committed here
since the opening of the race track across
the river, and the police think that the per-
petrators of them are expert crooks who
were attracted here and who make Alex
andria their headquarters. According to
statements made by the police, there are
number of professional crooks in Alex
andria now. While making Alexandria
their headquarters they attend the races
In the day time, and the police are salts
Hed tnat some OF them operate here at
nignt; Several successful housebreaking
JOBS nave been done in the county, where
the burglars succeeded in carving off
al ticles aggregating a considerable amount,
ana no trace of the property has ever been
optalned. These robberies have been COM
mitted under different circumstances some
OF them being bold and daring, while 9TH
ers were committed during the absence
from home of the occupants Of the houses.
neve,ai fersd houses IN Mount Pleasant have suf,
Iered at the hands of these burglars, and
only last week the house of Mr.. S. W.
woodward, on Kalorama Heights was yis-
tied and robbed
Saturday night one of the hurplars yisitad
lakoma Park and caused lively scene in
the house of DR.. Harrison NJ Bennett It
was not later than 8 O'Clock when the
burglar was found in DR.. Benefits home,
1am1iy were on the lower floor, and when
the doctor went upstairs to ascertain the
cause OF mysterious noise he found a
burglar in one of the rooms; but the burg
lar had no explanation to offer Instead Of
waiting, he jumped out the second-story
WINDOW through which he had entered, and
escaped The man was barefooted, but he
p1cked up his shoes on his way out and left
behind him his hat, which bears the name
OF New York halter. He had to leave in
such hurry that he did not have time to
take anything.
Last night the residence of the Rev J. G.
Butler, No. 1107 11th street. was visited by
one or more of these unwelcome visitors
ana now the divine would like to find about
Sooo worth OF missing property, including
number of gold rings with various set
tings and two pairs of opera glasses. DR..
Butler is pastor of the Luther Memorial
Church. and it was not until he returned
from church, about o'clock, that he made
the discovery. The thieves had effected an
entrance by opening the door, probably
using nlppers on the lock. Once inside, the
thieves had plenty of time to operate
Every bureau drawer was taken out and
ransacked, the beds were overturned, but
they only took away the jewelry and
money-S4O belonging to member of the
family. and $40 missionary money. belonging
to the church. They overlooked considerable
solid silver ware. Nothing in the house was
cut or damaged except that the bureau
creted was broken. 1t is generally supposed
thai this robbery was committed by an ex-
pert, although the officers say it may have
been committed by local crooks.
All these robberieS have been investigated
by the detectives, but in none of them did
the burglars leave clue.
This leads the officers to the belief that
the crooks belong in some other jurisdic-
tion and are shipping their plunder to some
other city, as none of it has turned up in
the secondhand stores pawn shops
which would probably have been the case
had local thieves committed the robberies