The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
SHOT BY A BURGLAR.
Pistol in Hand the Thief Then Broke
Through Two Houses.

while the family OF Ezra Il. Tuttle,
well-to-do coal dealer of Brooklyn, who
lives In massive four-story and base
ment brown stone house at 494 Bedford
avenue, were at supper shortly before 2
o'clock Monday night they heard tap
ping at the front basement swindow.
Around the dining 70 IN table at the
time were Mr.. Tuttle, his wife and two
sons, Winthrop NJ. and Frank ID. Tuttle,
respectively ~ and 81 years old, AMI Mr..
Tuttle's aged mother, Mrs. sylvester Tut
tie. The tapping at the window was fol-
lowed by the ringing OF the vestibule
door bell. A servant girl went up stairs
TO open the door. The son Frank suspect
ed something wrong, and. rising from his
chair he said:
'pll go up and see who II is.'
He ran up the basement stairs two
steps at time. At the head OF the stairs
he met the girl and asked her who it was
at the door.
cit was noobdy at ALL" she replied.
She started down the stairs and Tuttle
stood still for moment. Presently he
heard footsteps on the next floor and
looked up. There was bright light IN
the front hall, and in a moment Tuttle
saw man about 2S years old, OF slight
build and dressed in Dark clothes, coming
down the stairs. Tuttle waited until the
stranger was nearly down, and then ran
hands.
"what do you want here?" Tuttle de-
manded.
The intruder swung his arms round
and caught Tuttle by the throat and
threw him backward. Iuttle managed to
grasp the bannister and saved himself
from falling. In the meantime the rest
OF the family had hurried up the stairs
and were in the back of the hall, along
side the hall entrance of the back parlor
Before Tuttle could attack the intruder
again the fellow opened the vestibule
door and then drew a revolver. he fired
point blank at Tuttle, the bullet strik-
ing the frontal bone. The tuller split,
one part, DETECTING, STRUCK the right
side OF the pupil ot the eye, and lodged
over the right car, while the other half
OF the bullet imbedded itself in tue fornt
parlor door jam, within a few inches OF
the heads OF Ezra Tuttle and his wife.
The half of the bullet went between their
heads
Frank Tuttle fell after being shot,
while Tuttle's assailapt ran out of the
front door and hurried down the stoop.
He ran up to Clymer street, where he
turned and went down, stopping i'm front
OF the house OF Rotert b. Carey at l22
Clymer street. He ran up the front stoop
OF Carey's house and rang the bell. A
servant girl, who happened to be going
up to the second floor, opened the door.
The man with the revolver st II in his
hand, ran through the vestibule into the
hall. lie pushed the woman aside, and
ran down the basement stairs.
Carey, who Is nearly 65 years old, was
in the front base ment when the bell
rang. He heard the servants scream when
the intruder dashed past her. He went
into the basement hall, and when the
man came down the stirs asked him what
| he wanted.
"Pll blow out your brains II you stop
me, the fellow replied.
Then the intruder ran through the
basement hall to the rear, where he
dashed through basement window,
| carrying the whole sash with him, and
| jumped over the fence into the yard OF
| l24 Clymer street. There he scaled fence
| into the yard of Ill Taylor street, where
he got into the house of Rafael Pentlarge
| by smashing in the door of the extern
sion. servant girl was in the kitchen
| washing dishes when the intruder fore
| IDLY entered. All she did was to scream
and then run into the hall. The man
brushed her aside, and in the excitement
she fell. The intruder cried repeatedly:
"Let me out or I'll kill"
He ran through the basement aud went
up the basement stairs. where Mrs. Pent-
large, who had heard the servants
large with the revolver still grasped In
his hand, and went to the front door,
Although the door was secured ny two
heavy locks and peculiar latch he had
1t open in twinkliDg and was soon
running down Taylor street 10 Wythe
avenue. That was the last seen OF him.
In the meantime a member of the Tuttle
family went after doctor. Drs. Fiske
and Schaffs, VINO live near by, were soon
at the house. Several persons who saw
the fugitive running away from the house
pursued him, but gave up the chase when
they saw the man go into Carey's house.
When the police of the Clymer street sta
tion, two blocks distant, heard of the affair
the entire reserve was turned out. BY that
time the fugitive bad disappeared, and
nobody could be found who had seen him
after he ran away from PeDtlarge's house.
After an examination of Tuttle's injury
the doctors gave ii as their opinion that
he would recover. An exam nation of the
premises showed that the man, who was
undoubtedly burglar, got into the houes
by climbing from the front stoop on to
brown-stone coping in front of the parlor
windows. 1t is thought that the burglar
used knife in pushing back the window
catch, and 80 entered the house. The sup
position is that somebody saw him get
ting into the house, and, after tapping at
the basement window to alarm the fam
lily, went up the front stoop and rang the
bell.
The burglar was probably on the point
of ransacking the second floor when he
heard the bell ring and thought it best to
leave. he probably waited until he saw
the girl going toward the Easement stairs