New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19
THIEVES ENTER THROUGH SCL11LE
THEY STEAL $40 AND 800 WORTH OF JEWELRY
FROM An UPTOWN HOCSE-kEPT
SECRET ny PRECINCT POLICE.

Two men entered the house No. 220 East Seventy
eighth-st by an open scutle on the roof about mid
dav on Saturday Of last week and stole $40 In money
and $500 worth of jewelry from bureau drawer in
room on the second floor. The house Is one OF row
OF sixteen hree-story and basement private houses.
all exactly alike and No. 220 ia occupied by b. F.
Fischer a lawyer. and his family. H. WOLF ana MS
wife who was Miss Fischer. live with them. Mrs.
Wolf has been in ill-heaih lately. and two days be-
fore the robbery she decided go Of town for
couple Of weeks. and the $40 stolen was the money
she had intended 70 use for that purpose Nobody
knows how the men reached tn" roof OF the house.
but az there no traces of their having visited
any room bu, Mrs. Volts, 1t is probable that they
knew Just what they were after ana where to look
for II.
There five young men In the Flseher house
hold and two of them. Jacob and Isdor. as well as
Mrs Wolf and her sister. Miss THY Fischer were
at home when the robbery was committed. Jacob
was in the room adjoining Mrs. VOLTS and lsidor
was in another room on the same floor when Miss
Fischer called to Jacob to know he responsible
for the disorder in Mrs. Wolf's room He replied
that he was not. but that he had heard some one in
there Isidor had also heard some one, but thought
it was Mrs. Wolf Their talk attracted Mrs Wolf.
who Immediately missed her money and jewery
Isidor remembered hearing some enc run upstairs
seized his revolver and followed 10 the roof. There
he saw TWO men crossing the roof IN the direction of
Second-ave. He fred TWO shots from his revolver
as the men disappeared down an open scutie Of the
nathouse No 2iG Easi Seventy elShth-st lie called
to his sisters, neither he nor Jacob was dressed
for the street and the women ran ID the sidewalk
shouting stop thief" In the mean time tho
thieves had made their escape. walking quietly out
Of the door Of No 2i6 and nodding 10 Max Iowcn-
thai who standing on the pavement talking 10
G young girl Of the upper windows.
BY the time the women, who started al once AFTER
the robbers reached the Se,ond-ave. corner. they
were ont of breath. and Miss Fischer gave up the
chase. Mrs. Wolf ran few steps further and saw
the turn up Seventy -soventh-st. toward Third.
ave She also saw Policeman Thomas sullivan. Of
the East Sixty-scventh-s iaton. waking leisureG
toward her. She sent small hoy TO hurry him,
and when he arrived gasped out: I've been
robbed Those running up Seventy-sev-
enth-st. the thieves" Sullivan ran up Sev-
men. A lad at the corner of 'fhirdave. told him
they had gone toward park-ave. and Sullivan ran
on until he Llet the policeman on the other SIDE OF
Third-ave. Together they searched for traces of
the men. and then Sullivan returned 20 No go
East Seventy eighth-st to get further description
OF them. He found Policeman Baker. who had been
sent TO the house by Captain Grant IN RESPONSE 10
call from jacob Fischer and returned to his
Mrs Wolf furnished the police with this descrp
tion Of the lost property: I-adys gold watch NO
80 1871: chased gold bracelet OF linked design, with
watch. three gold chains TWO SILVER watches, win
the initials W. W. and :. w. on them. and II pair
Of smoked pearl ana silver set opera glasses ss, ~,
yesterday. Half dozen persons saw the men on
the roof ust before the robbery 61d thinking they
Friday night white Precinct Detectives Charlton
Bresler. from Headquarters. two men oafed past
convict and suggested that both be arrested as
suspicious characters. At the station the men gave
their names as Arthur Ellison and Michael Durant,
Durant answered vaguely the description fur
che had chased, and at the lorkville Court yeser-
day she was invited by Magistrate Mott to identify
OF the court She picked out Durant. and said that
he looked like the man. but that she could not