The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-10
CALL AT THE SEVILLE FLATS AND
CARRY Off SOME OF THE
JEWELLERY.
DONE IN THE DAYLIGHT, TOO.
THE APARTMENTS OF MISS BEACH
AND THE MISSES SCOTT
ENTERED.
Used Skeleton Keys Getting Into the
ROOms-POIice Notified, But NO
Clue to- the Burglars.

A bold daylight burglary took place
at the Seville flats, Kent street and
Selby avenue, yesterday morning, when
the apartments of Miss Mary J. Beach
and the Misses Edith and Jessie Scott
were robbed Of property valued at $780,
The burglary was perpetrated when the
occupants of the apartments were alb
sent, and, had not the thieves been
unexpectedly interrupted in riff1ing the
rooms, would have undoubtedly re-
suited in a much greater loss to the
young women, as number of Valua-
BILE articles of jeWelry were hastily
abandoned and a sum of money un :
touched. gold watch belonging to
Miss Edith Scott, a teacher at the
Hancock school, and also q gold watch
and chain, the property Of Miss Beach,
teacher at the high school, a small
diamond stick pin and several Jeweled
rings were also stolen.
The burglars were, to all appear
ances, familiar with the habits of the
young women, and waited until they
had left for their respective places of
employment. Miss Jessie Scott clerk
in the office Of j. j. Parker & Bro,
was the last to leave the rooms shortly
before o'clock The apartments are
No. 2, on the ground floor, fronting on
Kent street, and, on account of their
proximity to the thoroughfare, pre-
caution is always taken to lock the
doors and windows securely. No one
had a duplicate key to the rooms, and,
when Miss Scott turned the lock, ev~
erything about the fiat was securely
bClted. An examination, after the
discovery Of the robbery, showed that
the thieves had secured an entrance
by means of skeleton keys. The lock
was scratched and the door showed
evidences Of an effort at forcing it
open, when the keys in possession Of
the burglars only partly sprung the
lcck. No strangers were seem about
the Seville yesterday, and the police
to whom the case was reported, have
as yet been unable to obtain a clue to
the thieves.
Miss Beach was the first to notice
anything wrong about the apartments
when she returned from the high
school at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
The door refused to open with her key,
and when it finally yielded footprints
on the carpet attracted her attention
A search showed her watch to be miss
ing, but her suspicious were for the
time quieted on the thought that her
friends had probably laid it away.
Miss Edith Scott returned at O'clock.
but Informed Miss Beach that she
knew nothing of her tirnepiece Re-
meTnbering the money and jewelry
they had about the fat the two women
began an inventory. and found that
they had been robbed. The bureau in
Miss SCOTS room had been thoroughly
rif1ed, and the watch and rings taken
from jewel cas!Iet. Less valuable ar
ticles were passed over by the thieves,
and the contents OF the drawers turned
topsy turvey in hopes of a richer re-
ward. 1t was in Miss Beach's room
that the thieves were probably inter
rupted in their operations, as only two
bureau drawers were opened, while the
third, containing over $100 in money,
was undisturbed. The robbers evident
~ left the fat by the front door, as
none Of the windows were unlocked,
but how they could have perpetrated
so daring a burglary and made thei!
escape without being seen or heard bv
the occupant of the adjoining fat, or
by some Of the other tenants, who are
constantly passing to and fro at that
time of day, is a. mystery