The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-27
BOLD BURGLARS.
Make a Raid ON Three Houses Yes
terday Morning.

They Get Nothing For Their Pains-One
Narrowly Escapes Bullets-Mupjoy
Hill Considerably Excited.
Munioy Hill Is pretty well stirred up
and it came about in this wise. Abou
3.45 O'Clock yesterday morning the
neiahborhood in the vicinity of Morn :
ing Vesper. Congress and Emerson
streets were startled by hearing the re-
port of three pistol shots fred in quick
succession. Jumping from their beds
they looked from the windows and saw
three men running, chased by another,
who was very SHINY attired, and who
carried a revolver. The men got away
down Congress street ana the man with
the revolver retraced his steps to his
home. .-ea
The man with the revolver was Mr.. B.
D. Cummings. Of the we'll known Com
mercial street firm of B. D. Cummings
& Bros, and who resides at No. 81 Morn
ing street. Mr.. Cummings is a two
storied apartment house, MIR. f. D.
Cummings occupying the upper tenement
and MIR. A. A. Cummings the lower one.
Mr.. +. D. Cummings oooup les the bed
room In the rear of the parloIs, and open
ing out of his room is his wife's chamber.
In crib side of Mr.. Cummings bed
sleeps a little son, and his wife haH a
young babe in her room.
About g. 80 O'Clock Mr.. Cummings was
awakened by slight noise in. the room.
1t was sufficiently light TO see objects
fairly well. He thought nothing about
the noise and was turning over to go to
sleep again, when he heard second
noise, and looking up SAW some one
moving near the foot of the bed dressed
In dark clothes. Even then he thought
it was his wife, who had entered the
room for some purpose, and he wondered
why she was dressed. Then he caught
sight of a mans black Derby hat. and in
a momenu he realized the situation.
= AS he raised himself In bed and seized
his revolver, the burglar saw him in the
mirror Of the bureau, and he skipped
from the room and ran down the back
stairs and thence through the side door
INTO the passage way between Mr.. Cum
ran down the stairsShe made grasp for
his shoes that he had left at the head of
the stairway case, but sonly managed to
secure one. MIR. Cummings was impeded
in his movements by the child's crib at
the side of the bed, but he pursued the
man out OF doors and across the rear lot
to Vesper street calling on the burglar to
stop or be would shoot. The man kept
on without wasting any breath, and Mr..
Cummings pegged away at him with his
revolver. AS the man reached Vesper
street he was joined by second one, and
at the corner of Congress and Emerson
street by q third, and the three, as stated,
got clear away in the early morning
light
Mr. Cummings says that the noise the
burglar made in the first place, that at
tracted his attention, was caused by up
setting little dish in which his wife
kept stick pins. He thought it strange
the man should not have gone for
valuables in his clothing, OF for jewelry
in the dressing case. but the probability
is he was pulled up short by his up
setting the dish. The man is described as
medium height. with dark clothes and
black Derby hat. The shoe he left at the
head Of the stairs in his hurried exit was
secured by Mr.. Cummings and taken to
the police station.
While this little escapade was going on
at Mr.. Cummings one of the gang at.
tempted an entrance of Mr.. f. @.
Bowis's house on Vesper street just off
from Congress street. There is an ell at
tached to the house and a recessed en-
trance to the part that connects the main
house and the ell. 1t is capital place
for q burglar to work nnnoticed. Here
the burglar tried to force back the catch
of the window, after tearing off the
screen, but it is one of the new patent
catches, and he couldn't work it worth
cent. Then he got into a window in the
ell thinking he would go thence. directly
disappointed. for Mr. Bowie has new
style Of fastening to the inner door be-
tween the main house and the ell, and
this baked the skill Of the burglar. He
took coat that was hanging on peg
and just then he must have heard the
shots fred by Mr.. Cummings at his pal
close by, for he tum bled out of the
window hastily, dropped the coat under
it-whera it was found-and fastened to
join the other burglar and escape.
The third member of the coterie as
sailed the house Of Mr.. Bradford on
Emerson street. nearly opposite Vesper
street on the other side of Congress street.
This rascal forced open the roar window
in the stable and tore away the screen,
thus entering the building. Just off the
stable is room in which the Ice chest is
kept, and at the head Of the cellar stairs
are some shelves on which pies and other
food was standing. Mr.. Burglar made
love to the custard pie. eating all round