The evening times., 1896-12-16
HONEY AND JEWHLRY GONE
Aukam Residence Robbed Of Valu-
ables Worth Hundreds Of Dollars.
House Was Entered shortly After
. Dinner, hut Theft Was Not Dis
covered TIL Family Retired.

The police have another robbery on their
hands as mysterious and unaccountable as
| the Woodward burglary. 80
Last night the resilence of Frederick g
Aukam, the real estate and insurance
! agent, was broken into, and the tfieves
succeeded in Carrying away valuable
booty without the slightest trouble, and
with no interference. 0e
The house was entered some time be-
tween and O'Clock last night, but the
fact was not discovered until the family
went to their hedchanbcrs To retire for the
night 1t was then found that there was
missing jewelry and money To an amount
not exactly calculable, but the loss Is
considerable, and when a final inventory
is made it will probably be found that the
thief or thieves made Oft with valuables
approximating u thousand dollars.
Mr.. Aukam resides in a thTee-story brick
house at 1919 X street northwest. 1t is
one OF a row owned by Congressman ayne
of New York.
Last night, after dinner, Mrs. Aukam,
her sister and her daughter We're sitting
on the first story in the middle room of
the three into which this floor is divided.
Mrs. Aukau sat with her back to the door
leading to the dining room and facing the
stairway and the parlor door. Miss Aukam
was sitting at the piano.
The ladies' heard q noise upstairs, as If
someone were there. 1t was not distinct,
but sounded as IL something heavy were
being drawn across the floor in the third
story. Jane, the servant, went up, but
returnedto say that there was no one there.
Mrs. Aukarn and the other ladies Were very
much disturbed and scared, but Jane, re-
port reassured them, and they dismissed
their idea of a burglar with the thought
that the Noise was made by someone next
door.
In Nr Apl-a n orr r N
men in the house, and the ladies retired
shortly after 10 O'Clock. It-was then.
when Miss Aukam went to her room. that
She discovered that scme Of her iewelry
was missing. The Others discovered that
money had been taken, and IL was present
ly apparent that they had been robbed
Tie thief, or thieveS-itis. not vet known
how many there were-did their work
expertly. They TOOK only Jewelry and
cash. but left the silver toilet articles ON
the bureaus. They used no violence and
lett 10 traces, either of who they were or
how they entered.
No windows were pricd open. and no lad
ders were in sight. The latch on the front
door was drawn. and the door might have
been opened from the outside, but IL would
have been impossible for anyone 10 pass up
stairs unseen. as the ladies were, seated
at the foot OF the stairs. if anyone did
come in this way il was before dinner. and
l!s Tue twilight. But t'll> tntprl II etaltelS
tcnahie. for the thieves would have doEe
their work and gone out while u family
was at dinner.
The house next on the east j. vacant
The police this morning made an exauina
ton to see if il might not have been en-
tered and IL the thieyes might not have
passed over the roof and in by the top
story.
The only one in the house beside the
family is the servant, Jane, who came into
the service of th. AukaIns week ago to-
day. But her presence down stairs at the
time the noise was heard upstairs proves
an exonerating alibi for her.
The detectives are hard at work on such
slender clues as they have, but the Gun
ming of the robbers seems To foil all thco-
rics.
1t is evident that gang OF clever andex-
pert second-story workers are in Washing Z
ton, 3nd are plying their trade with sue
cess This is the second boid but IN ysteri-
Gus large theft of private residence
within fortnight. and in both cases the
knowledge which the police have OF the
thcfts point to Identical parties