The herald., 1897-09-09
Reports of Depredations
Begin to Thicken
MANY RESIDENCES LOOTED
FoOTPADS HAVE ALSO ENTERED
THE FIELD
J. L. Patterson's Residence Ransacked
During the Family's Absence.
A Panel Gut

ern part Of the city continues to use his
Jimmy on back doors and win dows. and
hardly day passes but some fresh dep
relation is reported. Thus far the
thieves have been very successful and
have accumulated large quantity OF
plunder from the houses looted. From
the manner in which they go about their
they must be very familiar with the
neighborhood in which the operations
are carried on.
The question that Is now puzzling the
detectives is, Where does the burglar
dispose of his plunder? All the places
where old gold and articles Of such char
acter are usually bought without any
questions being asked are carefully
watched. Up to the present the de-
tectives and police have only very slight
clews to work upon.
The Latest burglary reported was one
committed at ]. L. Patterson's residence,
2715 Orchard avenue, Tuesday after
noon. During the absence of the fam
! lily at the beach the burglar effected an
entrance through a rear door and took
everything in sight. Evidently he was
after jewelry, and, while he found sew
eral purses and plenty of jewelry boxes
it is not thought that he secured much
| of that sort of plunder for the reason
that the family had taken most Of 1t
with them to the beach.
1t is supposed that the same burglar
robbed the residence of s. V. Landt, on
Estrella avenue last Sunday evening,
and then picked out Mr.. Patterson's q
residence few blocks west for the
scene of his next attempt. The fact
that the house had been entered was not
discovered until Mr.. Patterson returne d.
home Tuesday night. The thief had
cut hole in the panel OF the back
door sufficiently large to admit his
| hand and had then reached inside and
unlocked the door. Entrance effected,
the burglar started in to visit each room
systema tically and go through every
thing in them. Closets were opened and
| their contents thrown upon the floor
after such valuables as the thief cared
for had been selected.
| When Mr.. Patterson returned home at
night the first intimation he had that
| his house had been ransacked was when
he stumbled over some old clothes that
| lay upon the floor, before lighting the
| gas. When the light was turned on a
scene of confusion met his eyes. Mr..
Patterson does not know what articles
were secured and the full extent of the
burglary will not be known until the
| rest of the family return from the beach.
1t is quite probable, however, that many
sillpen garments Of female wearing ap-
parel were stolen, since the burglar
seems to have been the same one who
visited the Landts, where he showed a
decided fondness for such material.
The burglary was reported to the po-
| lice yesterday morning and detectives
were sent out to the house to investi-
gate. The work was done so carefully
that there seems to be no clue to the
thief. 1t is thought that he did not take
any silverware. This fact seems to in
dicate that the burglar is an experienced
hand at the business, as such articles
when stolen are not easily disposed of
and are readily identified.
Since reports of few burglaries have
been made public in the papers within
the past few days numerous other re-
ports of like depredations have been
|
deal of such work has been done during
the past few weeks.
Only last week the residence Of Frank
r. Cummings, corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and Lopez street, Boyle Heights,
was entered during the absence Of the
family and ransacked. The house is a
new one and the floor IS raised about
four feet from the ground. The burglar
secured entrance under the house and
then sawed a hole through the floor
large enough to admit his body. Here
also everything in the house was turned
topsy turvy and garments and jewelry
carried away in addition to quantity of
silverware. The gardner living in an
adjoining house states that he noticed
two boys hanging around in front of
the place during the afternoon that the
burglary was committed. Later he
noticed them in front of junk shop, but
Gid not see that they had any OF the
stolen goods with them. This fact,
however, leads him to suspect that the
boys committed the burglary.
The house of A. B. Judkins, on Lopez
street, near Pennsylvania avenue, was
entered several weeks ago by burglars
who made away with some musical in
| struments. The house was again. en-
tered the following evening, presumably
by the same parties, who must have
thought that they had left something
behind. On this second visit nothing
| was taken.
A report of holdup at the corner OF
Figueroa and Eleventh streets has also
been received. One night last week the
coachman for Dwight Writings family
was held up at that place by footpads
as he was returning home in the evening
and ordered to turn over whatever he
had of value. The man handed out his
watch and all his money. The footpads
accepted the money but returned the
watch, which was a. cheap one, with the
remark that he might keep 1t.
| LANDLORDS ASSOCIATION