The San Francisco call., 1899-10-20
ARE MAKING NO
FURTHER SEARCH
FOR BURGLARS
Harries' Experience a
Mystery.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

90S Broadway, Oct. ~
The conclusion reached by the Oakland
and San Francisco police forces that the
alleged burglary at the Harries home
last Monday morning was not burglary
at all. but an escapade of young Harry
Harries is fatty contradicted by the
young mans relatives.
The first intimation that the Oakland
detectives did not consider it necessary to
make any further investigation was CON
veyed in message TO the San Francisco
Police Department sent by Detective
Denny Holland on Tuesday evening
Detective Holland told Chief Lees repre-
sentative that he had looked into every
phase of the alleged sensational burglary
and was convinced that there were more
circumstances pointing to it as fake
than indicated that serious crime had
been committed.
The impression of the burglary con
veyed by the Investigations OF the de-
tectives are substautiated by them with
arguments that they consider conclusive.
one of those who have investigated the
matter thoroughly says:
In the first place there is nothing lack
ing in what appears TO be a firsl-class,
Up-tO-date dime novel burglary. The tele-
phone wires We're cut, the white pOWdef
was around for any stray dogs Jhat might
appear, the windows were open loI, me
ingress and egress Of the burglars
though one of the windows through
which young HaTTies says burglar
ESCAPED I VIII swear 40 one mas passe
through within the past month";
1t would seem natural that When lhe
boy satisfied himself there We're burglars
in the house and armed nlmselI ne
would certainly call his rather betors
rushing downstairs 10 meet desperate
characters in the dark single-handed.
The burglars tools, so called cannot be
said TO he burglars tools at all. A look
ar them would convince anybody OF this,
and why should burglars go into the barn
and take monkey wrench, when they
left on the dining-roOm floor? of what
Use are the other pieces Of metal found
3D. the house? When we examined the
doors and windows there was nothing to
indicate that any entrance had been
forced. Most certainly there was Moth
ing to- indicate that any Of the tools
found IN the house mad been used on any
door or window. We have compared the
boys story. as nearly as we can get il,
t9r no one has Yet been permitted TO see
him. with every shot fired, and We, act
ing Ou this theory, that 1t was all a
fake. can account for every shot but one,
wh.Ch went through the front window
aId across the street. II We could find
that bullet our pTeSumDtiOn would be
established beyond doubt.
NO motive, so far as we know, has
Yet been discovered to account for the
strange acting of young Harries. presum-
ing that there was no real burglary, but
rumOrs have reached US that there might
possibly be something discovered in san
Francisco. 1 would like anybody who
really believes that the desperate strug-
gle took place to follow the trail taken
through the house, and to look at the
direction in which the shots were fired,
and he would at once see how very i'm
probable the story appears ANYHOW
there is so much about it to suggest a
huge farce that we do not believe there
is any use pursuing our investigation any
further
After hearing all the details Of the al
legged robbery, the san Francisco de
t-Cyives reached the same conclusion as
their brethren on this side of the bay
Members Of the Harries family declar.
that the conclusion reached by the police
Is without any reasonable foundation
They are absolutely certain that two
desperate men were in the house and that
young Harries had a violent encounter
with them both and only escaped death
by very narrow margin
The police, however. declare that a dead
burglar or a trail Of blood would have
been the best evidence Of the genutneness
Of the encounter