The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-08
Burglars Enter the House OF
Rev. j. Brody.
THEY WANTED ONLY CASH
TOOK ABOUT $50, BUT LEFT MANY
VALUABLES.
Robbers Were Evidently Familiar
With the PIace-overcoat Thieves
Trouble--A Light Day In Judge
Wenger's Court.

Burglars and petty thieves are plying
their trade quite extensively in the city
just now and reports of small losses
are recorded at the police station al
most daily
The most important of the recent
complaints is that made by Rev. j.
Brody yesterday. Rev. Brody lives at
$50 South West Temple street. Burg
lars entered his house early yesterday
morning and secured between $50 and
$50. The circumstances of the burglary
are suggestive of some one or more
persons who had close acquaintance
with the premises having committed
it although the members of the family
say they have not the falnteSt .SuS-
picion of anyone.
The Brody residence is in terrace
and dining room door in the rear
opens on a yard, overlooking which, is
a broad low window just beside the
door. Close by the window, one end
Of it touching the jam, in fact, stands
an oldfashioned sideboard with drawers
at the top about breast high to the
average person. In one of these the
members of the family have been in
the habit of carelessly throwing their
purses. The arrangement of the side
board is such that a person standing
anywhere near the window could plain
ly see one take purse from the drawer
or put one in.
On Friday night Rev. Brody had
some forty odd dollars and his daugh-
ter, Miss Bertha. and Mrs. Fl. Eckstein,
had something over SO between them,
all of which was, as usual, put in the
sideboard drawer. 1t was in three
different purses. The burglar or burg
lars cut away mosquito netting
screen, raised the window and entered
the dining room. All the money in the
three purses was taken and a small
Japanese cabinet used as a jewel case,
was carried from an adjoining parlor.
When found it gave evidence Of having
been examined, but none of the con-
tents, among which was a number of
valuable rings, Were missing. 1t was
plain the operator had no use for any
thing but money both for this reason
and from the fact that not another
thing in the house was disturbed.
The police were notified yesterday
and Detectives Sheets and Janney
made an examination of the premises
but found no clue to work on as might
have been expected.
From the fact that by an inadvert-
ence no shade covered the window, the
family have gained the impression that
whoever did the job saw the purses put
away and possibly saw the money
counted. The officers, however, do not
hold to the idea. They, instead, are
inclined to think that whoever got the
money had been in the house at some
time. and knew of the drawer being
used as the family cash box. The men,
bers of the family say the window
was fastened down by a nail being
driven over it. IF such was the case
the thief must have been in the house
the night. previous, and removed the
nail, as in making the examination the
officers did not find the sash marred
as must have been the case had the
window been raised with the nail in
place.
The robbers were discourteous set,
for they went out the door and left
both it and the window wide open, and
left three copper cents, one in each of
the purses, as though to taunt the
owners.
FEEL THE COLD.
The cold weatt er is beginning to
make the improvident wonder what he
did with his summers wages and as a
result the overcoat thief is abroad No
less than three complaints of overcoats
having been stolen have reached the
police in the last day or two, but the
officers have not been able to locate
the thieves.