The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-23

BURGLARS ARE BUSY
Two Houses Robbed on
Claremont Avenue
This Week.
EVIDENTLY AMATEURlsH WORE
The Thieves Made Extraordinary
Selections-Drank Every
thing in Sight.
EVIDENTLY AMATEURIsH WORE

Imam II. mcclure. at NO. 1S5
Ciaremont avenue, early on Wednesday
morning. They got $40 in cash and suffi-
cient small articles to make a total value
OF Sl0o. The articles stolen were jewelry.
siiverware and table linen, cigars and
uquor. too. were taken
Mrs. Mcclure was sitting up with her
| very SICK neighbor, Mrs. Darsley. until
midnight She then returned home and
| ehe entire family, including her husband
ana daughter, retired for the night. Af-
ter time Mrs. Mcclure awoke..
| While she lay half awake she heard a
| particular step of the stairs creak un-
der some ones tread.
rs that yeu. Josephine?, she called to
her daughter. There was no reply. and
as she arose to investigate there came
to her ears the sound of dull thud. She
ran to the window. but could see moth
lhs. Her daughter had not been awak-
ened.
MES Mcclure again retired and slept
until nearly daybreak. When she went
| downstairs at about $50 o'clock she
found the lower floor in great confusion.
Rugs. table covers, the piano cover and
all manner of articles were scattered
about the floor. A rear window of the
dlnlng room was wide open. Mrs Nc
Clure screamed and became hystericaI.
Her husband and daughter ran to her
assistance
When the lady became calmer an in
vestigation was made by all three. The
work of the burglars was peculiarly
amateurish. They had emptied five cigar
boxes of their contents, in ali about 250
cigars, the private stock of Mr. Mcclure.
The odor of smoke in the rooms showed
that the thieves must have puffed upon
them while they worked. Two decanters
of wine were emptied. The contents nf
bottle of gin had shrunk under their
lavish attacks upon it A bottle had
been filled with whiskey and placed near
the open window. where it was left be-
hind in the hurried flight
Two overcoats were folded and nIaced
with a hat upon the sofa. The piano
cover had been laid upon the floor, evil
IDENTIFY to be filed with other booty.
Rugs had been rolled up and laid about
in convenient places. Several fancy
doilies and other articles covered with
line examples of Miss McClure's fancy
work We're left. The articles taken were:
Napkins to the number of forty, table
cloths and eleven large Turkish towels,
silver salt cellars and pepper castors.
knives, forks and spoons.
A popularity of the eccentric robbers
was that they left one or more of each
pattern of napkins, SO that the stolen
tableeloths and napkins can be identi-
fed. There were two shapes of salt and
pepper shakers represented in the eight
pieces on the buffet. Two of each of
these We're taken and the others left. A
gold ring with a blood stone and two
gold sleeve buttons vera taken from the
book SHELVES. Letters addressed to Diff
ferent members of the family were taken
from these shelves and read by the
thieves
Entrance was effected by pushing back
the old-fashioned catch on the rear win
dow of the extension. A box upon q
barrel enabled the burglars to pursue
this work with some degree of com
fort. A straight bolt which penetrated
both sashes and held them together was
also removed from its position.
In getting in. the men carefully un-
hooked the cage of canary bird, which
hung in the window, and placed 1t upon
the dining table. They evidently de-
parted very hastily and must have been
frightened away
Another burglary occurred in this street
ON the night of Monday, January Is.
This was the home of Mr.. George Dars-
ley, at No. 176 Claremont avenue En-
trance there was effected in a similar
manner. The burglars here exercised the
same peculiar choice in making their
selections They took all the money
about the house, however. Mr.. Dsrslev
lost s25 and some change, and his daugh-
ter little over SO. Clothes. shoes and
wearing apparel of all kinds were taken
here, but many valuable articles were
overlooked
rms theft was accomplished willis
people We're constantly moving about
the house. Mrs. Darsiey has been living
almost at the point of death from heart
failure for the past three weeks. A
hght burned in her room ali that night.
but 1t in no way intimidated the maraud.
ers
The police of the Fifth precinct hava
as usual. withheld the facts in these two
cases. and but for the parties who wero
victimized nothing would have been
known of the affair. Both the McClures
and Mr.. Darsley think the people should
be told of the burglary, in order that
they may be prepared for visit of the
same character. Patrolman Burke, whe
has that post. is said to be one of the
most conscientious workers on the force.
This post, however, is one of the largest
in the city. 1t extends from the Newark
and New York Railroad cut to Myrtle
avenue, and from Jackson avenue to the
Hackensack River.
Stories of other robberies on Orient ave.
nue. could not be verified Three sus-
picious characters were seen lettering on
the banks of the Newark and New York
Railroad, between Arlington avenue ana
Clerk street. early this morning by Mrs
Ely of No. 'l29 Clerk street. The police
We're informed, but when they arrived
the men had fed. They carried large
bundles and looked like hard cases.
John MCGOWAN and John Luptuns oe
No. 145 Pavonia avenue were arrested
this morning for entering the liquor store
Of Frederick Scheussler, at No. l75 Pro-
vost street, and stealing so and some
wearing apparel. McGowan when caught.
had on Scheussler's shoes. The prisoners
were held.
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