The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-23
HER NINTH vIsIr FROM BURGLARS.
Mrs. Mendes Thinks Patience No Longer n
virtue and Wants the Thieves Caught.

Mrs y ia Mcndcs is an angry woman these
days. After being visited by burglars eight
times in the last two and a half years she was
again their victim on Wednesday night There
l. no clue TO the thieves who ransackcd
her place Mrs Mcndes lives at jJ3
West l4Sth street and has a dressmaking
aud costulning establishment on .he ground
floor at +31 sixth avenue within block Of the
West Thirtie'h street police station. The
electric lights in front ~ the Haymarket
dance hall. almost across the way. light up her
shop windows and persons pass every minute
OF the night To guard further against intrud-
ers MIS- Mendes leaves ac,upe Of gas Jets
burning brightly in her shop all night The
passersby can see through it to the from barred
Windows in the rear
$3.50 clock on Wednesday night Yesterday
morning. at the same hour, when they re;
they could see that a great part OF the stock
was dlsarranged,
burglars again. I'll bet said one Of the
women as the door was opened
4 hurried glance around verified her opinion.
Al the gowns IN the rear Of the shop were
feet square. big enough for a large man TO
squeeze through, from the cellar. Parers and
hooks in the office were strewn about and
desk hal been forced open and its drawers
rtlsd The he, loss in money and clothing was
Instead Of saving through the floor the bur
glars had taken an inch augur and bored out
square. This must have taken thnm more
than an hour The dresses they car
ried away necessarily made largo bundles.
but the police had seen nothing SUSPICIOUS.
The burglars had worked me'hGdiCally. Near
the hole in the floor was small alarm clock.
The clock had STOPPED when the store was
closed tho night before. hUt ii had been wound
un and set gotng by the burglars to make sure
that they wouldn't stay to- 'onG
Mrs MenGes went 10 tn" police and reported
fourth time she had upen robbed IN this store
in "A wear. Not" was taken ~ the robbery and
one Of Capt. Prices men assigned TO the case.
He went back to the shop with Mrs. MendeS
and looked the ground over.
IN see what can do. was his parting in
junction. Dent do ANYTHING more until you
hear from me"
Mrs Mandes didn't do anything more until
last night. She hadn't heard from the detec-
tive then and from former experiences abe
concluded that she wouldn't 40 taking a
man friend with her she went around
to. the police station again and asked
what had been done on her case: She was in
formed that nothing had been done. but that
detective had been assigned to it. That
out Of the station she had told the police what
she thought ~ them
81 am tired of being robbed" said Mrs.
MendaS later TO a Sun reporter. " Patience
ceases to be a virtue after a time. Two years
ago 7 moved up here from 81 Carmtne street
because was tired of being robbed there, and
the police never did anything, Since then 1have
have been the victim Of l have lost several
thousand dollars. In one haul in Carmine
street two wagon loads OF dresses WAS carried
away. The police learned that. but that Is all
they did learn. Yet am a taxpayer. and am
supposed to be entitled % some protection