New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-08
HE WAS 4 SUPERIOR BURGLAR
TALKED TEARTULLY OF HIS SICK WIFE
AND WAS SET FREE.
BIT UNsYMpATHETIC TRUcKMEN TOLD POLICE
MAN AND THE MAN RAN FOR Els LIBERTY
~ vArN-Po1.rcE SAY WOULD
HAVE sroI.EN THE FLAT
IF HE COULD.

IF HE GOULD.
strange sort Of burglar got Into the nat Of
John c. Brant at No. l96s Seventh-ave.. late yes
terday afternoon Mr. Brant is connected with the
New-York Life Insurance Company. and his nat
contains several hundred dollars worth OF silver
ware. Mrs. Brant went out al . O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, leaving the fiat untenanted She re-
turned in half an hour. unlocked the door softly
and almost tainted when she saw In the half-
lighted room a man who was ping up the silver
ware on a table. She closed the door as gently as
she had opened 1t. and then almost fell down two
flights Of stairs.
on the ground floor three truckmen were moving
furniture. They readily followed Mrs. Brsnt when
she asked them II they would kindly help her
catch burglar and upstairs the four went MIS-
Brant by this time calm. and directed the
movements OF the men. Two she stationed In the
hall Then she told the other y follow her
Through two rooms she and the man went but
before they reached the dining-room they hearo
loud cry in the hall Hurryng back she found
the men holding third
Here's the burglar" said one. He was slight
young man, well dressed with a pale lace and
hands as we'll shaped woman's
"Oh. you're the burglar. are your asked Mrs
Brant
Yes madam" the slight man answered.
Bring him in here" said She and the slight
man was led into the parior. Mrs. Brant went
through the rooms before she said anything more
found
half an hour. every corner had been cleared out
Most of the silverware was tied up in big bundle
and her husbands dsess clothes were laid out on
bed as though about 10 be put on. Going back 10
the burglar and the three truckmen guarding him.
Mrs. Brant said:
..What do you mean By being in the burglary
business?'
mot from choice. he answered I'm orl'en
10 it"
by what?"
My wife"
Mrs. Brant was surprised and she said So
There were tears in the eyes and in the voice oil
the pae-faced young man as he went on earnestly
Il am forced TO live; my wife is starving. Can
sit down and see mat! / love heT So sne 10 81
good. I'd ike [ have you meet her.
say shall | get cop?' interrupted one OF the
But Mrs. Brant said no. the young seemed
TO be In trouble and she didn't want him arrested
"Tll give you a chance she said. . IT.,
rat on. and Mrs Brant, noticing this, asked him
WHY he did not remove it. The trackInen had sner
about the burglars bearing that Il looked strange
in him The man hesiaed mEmsht' n snd i ,bai
before had been hid by his hat. was canary oird
1t Mrs. Brants. and had been taken from =. a
cage in the front room Mrs. Brant TOOK the ora
and looked az the man.
Il going to take it to my wife" ne said
After that the man handed back two rings and a
diamond-studded bracelet with the remark Ihat
TWO minutes later the young man walked down
the stairs free The three truckmen had gone
down just before him. AS they reached the door
Policeman Didier passing the house. Inc
truckmen had been expressing their disgust at the
being set free, and they told me policeman
In a few words that the man was a burglar Inc
policeman went toward him. and the burglar didn'
wait; he ran.
He was quick and he gave the policeman long
chase. but finally caught al Fifth-ave and
one hundred nd -nineteenth-st Before ne was
caught however he had thrown away a small
| Jimmy" and a large dirk knife. He made no re-
| sistance when caught, and was led TO the West
re-hundred- -twenty-fifth-st. station. He said
there that he George Murray, twenty-five
years old, but refused TO say where he lived. he
! insisted that ne Il coal passer the steam
| ship laurie Of the White Star Line.
All the police In the station looked at the man
soft white hands examined the Jimmy, spoke
about how the door OF the Brant fat had marks
Of being forced and how the man had talked 10
| Mrs Brant Then they decided that the man never
| had been coal-passer. that he, would have car
ried off the had ne not been discovered in time
and that Mrs. Brant knew very little about burg
lars.