The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-04
HAD LOT OF NERVE.
Sneak Thief Enters
House in Broad
va Daylight.
CARRIES AWAY A GOODLY sum.
Gained Admittanceat Front
Door and Worked While
a..- the Family Dined.
CARRIES AWAY A GOODLY SUM.

Yesterday afternoon a sneak thief
entered the house occupied by Mrs. S.
a. FarWell at 26 Boynton street and
stole $40 from room on the second
floor while Mrs. Farwell her mother,
her son, her sisters son and a man who
boards at the house were at dinner on
the first floor Every one of them heard
the man walking around upstairs but
paid no attention to the footsteps as
they supposed it was one of the room
ers. ,..--..
The money was hidden in Mrs. Far
wells sons savings bank About an
hour previous to the time she heard the
man upstairs she had been up to her
room and had taken $50 in bills from
the amount and placed it in a cuff box.
The remainder she placed in her sons
bank, which also contained about Sc
besides.
TeIa Spy man last night she said she
was not in the habit of keeping so much
money in the house at a time, but owing
to an injury to her ankle she kept the
money around to save her a journey
down town to a savings bank 1t had
not been int her sons bank but a few
hours when the thief got hold of it.
She thinks that it must have been
about l o'clock when the thief got into
= tho house as she heard footsteps up
stairs, as did the other people who
were at the table with her. Frank Rich,
son of the late DIR. Rich, rooms at the
house, together with a student at the
Polytechnic Institute named Sherman,
and as both have keys to the front door
she supposed that it was one OF them:
The mansstayed upstairs about half
hour walking from one room to another.
( The room where the money Is kept is
=. used by Mrs Farwell as sleeping
room and is at the rear of the house
This room got sthe lions share of at
tention from the rObber. He pulled out
all the drawers in the dressing-case ard
scattered the contents all over the room.
The bank, which was broken open once
before and money taken from 1t by a
servant in the employ of Mrs. FarWel,
was on top of the dressing case, ana
when the room was examined later 1t
lay on the bed with everything gone
except some coppers and lO-cent pleCe.
The coppers were spread all over the
bed, and everything else was turned
upside down. The cuff box was also
opened, and the cuffs thrown about the
floor and the money taken. A room
occupied by Mrs. Farwells mother was
next on the robbers list, and he very
carefully threw the pillows on the ped
aside. and turned up the bed clothes
at the head of the bed, and looked
down underneath TO see II anything Ilhe
money was lying around.
He did not give much attention to the
room, for considerable money was left
in a dress pocket untouched, In ms
haste the burglar dropped a flVe-dollaf
hill on the floor of this room, and II
was found later=by Mrs Farwel.
A gold watch and chain belonging TO
Mrs. Farwell was carefully picked up
by the burglar, who also took pains to
detach the chain and deposI 1 IL IN III h% "a
collar box, where it was found later oy
Mrs. Farwell, the burglar evidently for
getting it.
The first person to go 10 stairs after
the robbery was one Ct Mrs. FarWell
boarders. and he roticed the chaotic
state of Mrs. Farwells room, and went
into a bath room to see if anybody was
there. In doing this, lie left the main
corridor so that the burglar could have
easily gotten by and out without being
seen.
Mrs. Farwell was notified OF the al
fair and her first thought was that III
might have been the children rummag-
inc around the drawers, but when she
discovered the loss Of ner money, she
Immediately sent word 10 the ponce,
who failed to show up at the mouse last
night al $50. when Tie Spy man
was there, although they are keeping
the matter very quie'.
On questioning the boarders, sheI
found out that none 4 them had been
10 stairs between and = o'clock. The
front door of the house is always kept
locked, and this was found open.
Mrs. Farwen is at loss to find out
how the burglar gained adnlittance, or.
How the front door happened to be OPP
ered. as-no one has kows but her room
ers. 1t is supposed that whoever did
the job must have known the house
and also that there was money in Mrs.
FarWells room.