The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-03
ON A RAID.
Crooks Break Into Several Places
Near Dean Street.
Securei IL te BODY. But They Left Many
Traces Behind Them.

Two or more persons raised ruction in
the vicinity Of Dean and Washington
streets Saturday night, for no less than
four separate buildings were entered.
The plumber secured was small however,
and probably 800 will cover the loss.
A window In the rear Of the Office Of
Burrows eS Kenyon at 800 Dean street
was broken, and the thieves went into
the private Office and pried open a desk.
There was evidence that the work was
done by boys, or at least novices, for
when they succeeded in opening the roll
Ter top desk they did not push the top TO
its full extent The drawers on the side
could not, therefore, be opened, so they
pried them open with a chisel. All they
got for their trouble was new suit of
underwear which had been purchased
by one of the clerks Saturday afternoon.
They took with this his suit and two
coats which were hanging in a little
room in the rear of the office. In the
main Office are two safes, n small Corliss
and large Marvin, and the latter
showed signs of being tampered with. as
the paint In the vicinity of the jamb was
marTed considerably.
At the carpenter shop of ]. Gray & Co.
They then went To work on IA partition
made of inch boards in the shop. This
partition formed part of the staircase,
which leads up into Eben q. Bullock's
tin ana sheet iron workshop. They sue
cceded in cutting part way through one
of the wider boards when they thought
perhaps they could pry the board off, and
this they did, or at least made an open
ing big enough to crawl through. Up
stairs they went, and from over the casing
ot the Office door Of Mr. Bullock's took
the key, opened the door, and went into
the office, pried open Mr.. Bullock desk,
where they found "a lot of postage stamps
and meerchaum pipe. which they took.
They then burst open the door Of Mr..
BullOCk's clothes press and took "A S}0
suit of clothing and a $95 overcoat, all OF
which were new From the pocket of
each garment they took everything. and
threw the articles about the floor While
The News man was in the Office MIR.
Bullock found a silk handkerchief in one
of his rubber boots which stood in the
closet. Traces of the mon could be found
in the workshop as everything there was
topsy turyy, and an old burlap, which
for a number OF years had been used by
Mr.. Bullock 10 cover light harness was
gone from the workshop, and il is sup
posed that the men took this to do uD the
clothing that they had taken from Mr..
Bullock.
While Mr.. Bullock was showing The
News man about his place. Thomas ID.
Edwards, the carriage builder of 31l and
$40 Washington street came in and said
that his place had also been broken into
during the night. In the rear of Mr..
Edwards shop window had been broken
and one of the thieves reached in and got
hold of two coach lanterns valued at $40
but could not get them out through the
opening, or were frightened away. At
any rate the lanterns were taken from q
box ana were lying near the window when
the owner went into the shop this morn
ing
Harry Linden son of John Linden of
the firm of John Gray q Company called
at the shop yesterday afternoon and found
that the shop had been broken into, but it
was not until this morning that Bullock
and Edwards knew that thieves had called
upon them during Saturday night.