New-York tribune., 1896-01-14
BURGLARS WERE TIL WA RT'ED
A BOLD ATTEMPT TO ROB CHANDELIERS
MUSIC STORE.
TWO SAFES OPENED BY FORCE. AND A LOT OF
TROUBLE EXPENDED WITH no RESULT
IN GAIN-TOOI.S LEFT BEHIND
AND THE POLICE AT SEA.

| TROUBLE EXPENDED WITH NO RESULT
IN GAIN-TOoIs LEFT BEHIND
AND THE POLICE AT SEA.
The music store of f. Chandler. at No. 300
Fulton-st.. Brooklyn, entered by burglars
some time between 2 o'clock on Sunday after
noon and an early hour yesterday morning, and
two safes were opened The work was cumsily
done and in the eyes of detectives the thieves
We're not experts In the art Of safe cracking.
Although there were several hundred dollars in
one of the safes nothing Of value was taken.
the burglars having evidently been scared away
before they could their plunder. The
commanding officer of the First Precinct be-
lieves that some time must have been required
for the preparation of the plans necessary to
accomplish the work and that the men were no
mean hands at the business.
Since the arrest OF George LOOMS. the ex-
pert Western cracksman the police have been
unusually active, believing that Western crooks
were nocking to the East In droves. and on
Sunday night Futon-st. was covered by eight
detectives in addition to the regular force OF po-
licemen Detective Finnegan had the post from
CIlnton-st to Bocrum Place the section which
takes i'm Chambers store. and at | o'clock yes
terday morning he walked down Fulton-st. to
they saw nothing unusual on the block
The store closed at o'clock on Saturday
evening by Mr. Chandler after he had depos-
tied several hundred dollars in the small safe.
which stood within twenty fee, of the Fulton-st.
entrance. The safe is about four feet high and
could easily be seen If there had been a light in
the store. The store afterward visited by
Luke Gallagher. one Of the employees. at
laft
thlng in hrst-class shape.
The attempted robbery discovered yester-
day morning. at 7:40 o'clock by Pierre Henry
when he opened the store. He noticed heavy
dust on all the instruments. and. wondering
where is could have come from, made mis- way
To the rear Of the store. where he found the
door of the big safe almost blown from It's
hinges and the inner sheathing lying against
the counter. The back Of the door was a COM
plcte wreck and the dust had come from the
plaster lining which made Il big heap upon the
floor.
Captain Kinney OF the Adams-st station, was
communicated with. and he came 10 the store
with Detective DOlan They found that the 1t
tie safe had also been badly damaged There
We're two holes drilled near the combination and
ragged hole about foot wide on the side OF
tho safe toward the rear Of the store. To ac-
cOmp'ish the work on the TWO safes must have
taken some hours. Three drills. three hes and
steel instrument on the pattern Of a can-opener.
with which the hole in the smaller safe was prob
ably made We're found in the store.
Upon = careful examination II was found that
the thieves had entered through large hole in
the wall between the store and the second floor
- next door No. 302. The hole opened into
tool closet the top floor. The men had then
detached from its pulley the rope used In hoist
Ing pianos 70 the repair shop and fastened II
% the balustrade around the wellhole in the
centre p the store The men evidently slid down
this rope and tackled the large safe. believing
that II contained all the valuables. Finding
hon e..I Yes <pn turned
small safe and just the money was almost in
their grasp they We're frightened and fled. De-
iectiv.s Roche DAILY and Rorke. who were sent
iy Superintendent McKelvey 10 make an inves-
tigation discovered blood stains the floor, and
hallo,. that The burglars had been injured and
that powder used in opening the safes
Newmau's drygJods store. across Fulton-st.
from Chambers. entered In the same man
ner about three years ago. and the thieves were
never run down.
The man sent by the manufacturers to open the
small safe found everything intact.