The San Francisco call., 1896-03-17

sional workers, for they are carefully
planned and the whereabouts of the occu-
pants are ascertained before the houses
are entered.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russ returned home early
was so dismayed and frightened by the
scene of ruin which met their eyes when
they entered that she could not stay in the
house another night. They went down.
town. after going through the house with
a policeman, and stayed at a hotel that
night. Since then they have been board
ing. What remains of their furniture and
household goods will be sold at auction
within day or two. Mr.. and Mrs. Russ
are rather disheartened at their first ven-
ture in housekeeping.
1t was last Friday night that the burg
lars pried open the front door of Christian
J. Bruses grocery-store at the northwest
corner of Pacific and Leavenworth streets.
Luckily the miscreants could not locate
the secret cash-drawer, and in the regular
till there was but little coin. They stole
a few cigars, some cans of sardines and as
much liquor and wine as they could COM
fortably carry off. The police have not
Sunday night residence on Bernard
street, near Jones. was entered, and though
the house was ransacked there was but
little stolen.
Exactly week before this the residence
of William e. Donnellan, at 1406 Mason
street. was entered between half-past 6 and
10 o'clock at night. This is only block
from the Russ residence, and on the same
side of the street. The burglars entered
by the front window. There is large
bay-window here, square IN shape, with
small sashes on the side. The small sash
nearest the front steps was opened
The loot was considerable. A $400 seal
skin coat was taken. together with a large
amount of jewelry that was less valuable
intrinsically than because the articles were
mostly heirlooms and keepsakes of the
family. Everything In the house was
ransacked, and much that was not stolen
was wantonly destroyed. Luckily there
was but $48 in cash in the house at the
time. Unluckily that was gone with all
the rest when Mr.. and Mrs. Donnellan and
their daughter returned home about 10
o'clock that night.
Mr.. Donnellan rushed out and blew a
police whistle. 1t was answered by De-
tectives Wren and Gibson, who had been
in the immediate neighborhood for some
time. They came in and examined
the premises for some clew that might
lead to the arrest of the burglars. All they
found in their search was bunch of mis-
ccllaneous keys that had been dropped on
on the parlor floor by the burglars.
Yesterday afternoon, when CALL man
visited the house, Mr.. and Mrs. DonneIlan
were busy packing their furniture, prepara-
tory to moving out of the neighborhood.
81 can't stay here any longer" ex-
planned Mrs. Donnellan. 81 am not
naturally nervous, but since these bur-
glaries in the neighborhood and our own
loss l have been unable to sleep at night.
1t seems as if this neighborhood was in
tested by regularly organized band of
housebfeakers. One or two burglaries oc-
cur every week. We are going to move to
another quarter of the City"
Several other families are also on the
point of moving and some have already
moved away. No one knows whose resi-
dence will be next and at least the women
of the neighborhood are in constant alarm
every night.
Recently the burglars, apparently the
same band, made an attempt on the resi-
dence of III. Darius, who lives ct S27
Broadway. They opened his front win
dow and tied the lace curtains in knot on
each side Mr.. Darius awoke at about this
time, and, finding the window open, went
to close it. This scared the burglars and
they broke and ran.
I Since Sunday night there have been no
burglaries in this neighborhood reported
to the police.