The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-28
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Georglana and Florence Brock Charged
With Robbing the House of Breck p.
Trowbridge, Formerly of New Haven.
New York, May 27.-Breck P. Trow-
bridge of S31 West Seventy-first street
reported to the police of the West Six
ty-eighth street station on Monday af-
ternoon that his house had been enter
ed and his wife's trousseau stolen from
clothes press on the fifth story. De-
tective Mcknight was detailed on the
case. He found that the fifth story of
the Trowbridge house runs back but
half the depth of the house, as is the
case with the whole row, so that a per-
son can walk along the roofs and look
in at the fifth story rear windows.
McNaught found on the bed against
the window of the Trowbridge house
the imprint of foot. He and Mr..
TroWbridge then walked along the roofs
until they came to the house of Henry
Brock at $3.50, and there on bed placed
by the window they saw similar foot
print. They suspected that the Brock
house had likewise been robbed, and so
went down to the street and rang the
front door bell.
They saw Miss Georgiana Brock and
told her of their suspicious, and she al
lowed them to search the house. On
the fifth floor Mcknight found a piece
of tissue wrapping paper which, it was
afterward learned, had been around one
of the missing dresses. Mr.. Trowbri sc
saw Westcott express wagon carry
away trunk while he and the detec-
tives We're in the house.
Yesterday morning Mcknight and
Mr.. Trowbridge learned from the West
colt company that the trunk was taken.
to the Columbia storage warehouse at
Sixty-seventh street and Columbus ave-
nue.. They went to the warehouse and
were about to examine the trunk when
Miss Georgiana Brock Joined them. She
spoke to Mrs Trowbridge, who was
present, and told her that her little sis
ter Florence had stolen the clothes, and
that when she learned of it she put
them in the trunk to return them, but
the visit of the detective frightened her
and so she sent the stolen things to the
warehouse.
McNaught saw that Miss Brooks
shoe was about the size of the imprint
on the bedspread, and arrested both her
and her sister. In the trunk, in addi-
ton to Mrs. Trowbridge's gowns, val
ued at $1,040, were three silk dresses
and some laces, which, it was later
learned, were stolen from Mrs. Richard
Muser, who lives at 343 West Seventy
first street.
The girls were arraigned in the York
vile police court yesterday and were
placed under bail for trial. Bail was
furnished.
Georgiana Brock is twenty-o years
old and her sister Florence twelve
Henry Brock, their father, is president
of Brooks Commercial Agency and is
man of high standing. He said last
night that his daughter Florence. who
was an incorrigible child, had taken the
dresses, intending to use them for fan
cy dress, and that when his older
daughter found them she intended to
return them Anxious not to have her
mother, who was ill, disturbed by the
affair. she hurried them off to a storage
warehouse.
Mr.. Brock Trowbridge is well known
architect, son of the late Professor
William P. Trowbridge of New Haven,
Conn.,, who resided upon Prospect street
and was professor for many years in
Columbia college, New York.