New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-02
CAUGHT ENTERING A HOUSE
EDWIN w GAILLARD SAYS HE WAS
SIMPLY EXPERIMENTING.
HE WAS ARMED WITH REVOLVER AND A
PoNIARD But DECLARES HE WAS GOlNH
TO SHOW Mr.. ROOSEVELT HOW

HE WAS ARMED WITH REVOLVER AND
poNIARp. But DECLARES HE WAS GOING
TO SHOW MR.. ROOSEVELT HOW
EASY 1T WAS"
Policeman william F. Sullivan Of the West one
hundredth-st station. took to Police Headquar-
ters early yesterday morning young man VINO
was arrested while in the act OF committing
burglary at No 10 West Eighty-eighth-st. The
prisoner gave his Edwin White Gailiard'
and said he was born Louisville KY. and that ne
was Twenty-Five years old. He told the police ne
lived at No 200 West Eighty nInth-st.. but there
Is no such number About l30 o'clock yesterday
morning Mr. Marshall newspaper man, VINO occn-
pies a fiat at No. 1872. saw three men crossing the
roofs Of the dwelling houses the block He called
Policeman Sullivan. who summoned Pofcernah
Clancy his assistance Together they ran down
to the last house In the row. which Is NO. Ill., ana
aroused the occupants. They then went up 10 the
top floor Officer Sullivan was in advance with his
nightstick in hand and his revolver In the
other. He opened the door OF the stairway leading
to the roof and started up On the dark stairs he
ran into man who was coming down sullivan
the shining barrel OF a revolver In the Fellows
hand and quickly covered him with his own pistol
The marauder threw up his hands and Sullivan
secured him and searched him on the spot From
his hip pocket the policeman took out fancy dag
ger in a case lie also had a satchel suspended from
the buckle strap OF his trousers When first ques-
toned az what he doing up the roof he
said that he had made wager with some friends
that he could all the roofs on the block The
police laugh this story and regard the arrest as
important.
Search made for the other men who were
the roofs but they managed to make their
escape. The police also found a rope ladder sus-
pended from tho roof OF the fiat No. $50 West
Eighty-eghth-s,. TO the roof OF the dwelling next
door. The police believe that the burglars secreted
themselves IN the fiat No 1872 before the front door
locked Sunday night. The house at No no.
where Gaillard arrested IL occupied by Edward
G. buchanan. The police found the scuttles OF two
or three houses on the block broken open. They
could not tell whether anything had been stolen or
not Mr.. Marshall thought he saw one Of the men
who escaped carry a bundle.
At Police Headquarters Gaillard told Captain
O'Brien that he IN the employ OF the Mica Roof
Ing Company. No. 65 Maiden Lane lie had been
there for eighteen months. he said Before that
he stated that he had been employed for seven
years IN the editorial rooms Of religious paper In
this city. He refused tell anything further about
himself Gaillari does not look Ike crook. He
is n rather good-.ooking young man. and wore
brown mixed business suit
Galard was later arraigned before Magistrate
Cornell at the Harlem Court The prisoner was
1 ana ne skd II ha an hi Saa no nien
ton OF comml Ing burglary but that ne had CON
houses and get away undetected and tina, he had
determined to make the experiment. lie had pro-
lard the two latter with the purpose OF soaring or
any one who discovered him. and not with the nen-
ton Of doing any one bodily injury When he was
discovered by PatrOlman sullivan. he first realized
how difficult It would he to make the police and the
public under stand his purpose.
He sad that Il his Intention when ne hai
made the tour ~ the block In Eighty nth-st
and had escaped undiscovered. 20 write 10 Presi-
dent Roosevelt. detailing his intention and ex,
per!encc. and send him the rope ladder the ponard
and the revolver for additions 10 the museum at
Police headquarters
The Magistrate said that the prisoner re- explana-
ton might be true, but that he had been guilty
o, burglary. and must be held IN 200 ball for trial
at the General Sessions
Two Young men. brothers OF Galard. called at
the Harlem Court in the afternoon, and permission
granted them TO see the prisoner. 20 MS
brothers. Gaiard said that he had been alone In
the house all day Sunday. and after thinking over
burgares and sneak therts took notion 10 try -
enter a house without the police knowing II. He
! said he had no confederatcs.
Gnillard. according to HIS brothers. has strange
! ,anDles and fais lie has made study % Chinese
/ habits AMI customs and In doing has spent
m-th ~ his time In ass)ciatins with the Chinese
/ in their haunis in this city. They said that he
| l. an athlete and a member o, the ATLANTA Boat
dub and that Memorial Day last year he won
a Junior single IN the regatta the Harlem River
! Gaillard lives IN West Eighty-eighth-st. HIS
! mother is a widow Last year the family lived at
h" yesterday began his operations.