Evening star., 1897-02-06
MRS. PACKERS JEWELSGONE
A Burglar Who Extinguished the Light in
the Street Lamp.
Clever Robbery of n House On Q
Street-A Jewel Case Taken
in the EARLY Evening.

When a policeman in the third precinct
reported Tuesday night that the street
lamp in front Of 1760 Q street had not
been lighted he did not imagine that the
work Of the lamplighter had been undone
by burglar. But such was the case.
While the lamp was not lighted a burglar
had entered the house of Mrs. Mary A.
Packer at the number given. and had car
r.ed away about 5000 worth of jewelry.
Mrs. Packer told the police, and when she
made the report she asked that nothing
be said about it, for the reason that she
did not want to be annoyed. The robbery
was clever one. and was probably done
by professional robber or gang, who
have made so many successful hauls here
during the past two years. AS was the
call was made at the house about dinner
time, between and o'clock, and 1t was
Lot until later In the night that the robbery
was discovered. One Of the bureau draw
ers In Mrs. Packers bed room, on the sec
ond floor, was found open and an investi-
CATION showed that a Swiss jewel box and
contents had been taken. The street light
had been extinguished In order that pedes-
tr1anS might not witness the movements
OF the burglar and an entrance had been
enected by climbing a stone pillar to the
porch over the front door and going
through a window
take more than five minutes for the rooms
were not ransacked. The robber went right
to the bureau drawer and left as soon as
ne got the box of valuables. 1t is evident
that the burglar made no examination of
the bureau drawers or other articles Of
furniture In the room, for near the box Of
1ewelry there was some gold money and
other articles of value, which were not
touched. The burglar, it is thought. left the
house in the manner in which he entered.
fer there was no evidence that he had gone
Gown the stairway. When the report was
received Inspector Hollinberger sent sew
eral detectives to the house to make an in
vestigation. and yesterday Detective Wee
don was sent to Philadelphia, while De-
tective Helan went to Baltimore hoping to
lnd some of the stolen property In a pawn
snop or secondhand store. Detective Helan
returned last night after an unsuccessful
visit to the monumental city, and this
morning Detective AL. Gault of Baltimore
came here
The Baltimore authorities are as much
interested in the capture of the burglar as
are the local detectives, for similar bur
glaries have been committed In that CITY
The officers think the same burglars are
operating IN both cities. Today the police
sent out descriptive circulars giving a list
or the jewelry stolen from Mrs Packers
house. The list included twelve rings five
pins and gold watch and fob chain There
were about sixty diamonds in the settings
as We'll as sapphireS, emeralds pearls ard
an opal Speaking of the robbery this
morning an officer remarked that this bur-
glar ought to be worth at least several thou
SAND dollars. Another officer. however
said that burglars do not. as a rule. get
much for their plunder, but the man who
handles 1t for them makes the big profits
In the several big professional robberies
committed here none of the jewelry has
been found in the pawnshops 1t is the be-
lief of the police that the jewelry is either
shipped away or melted here and then
shipped The detectives are continuing
their investigation of the case. as they did
In the other big robberies but so far as
known no clue to the robber or the plunder
has been found