The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-26

the burglars Prove
hem to Be the BOIdest ON Rec.
0rd-They Force Doors. Tea.
Down Screens and Go Th
With Neighbors
Watching Their Movement.
or several hours early yesterday
morning burglars created a reign of +ar-
TOT In the Rondo district, I'm The vict,,it,.
VI uller ana Jay streets, robbine- ona
ies4uence and trying to force an entrance
10 han dozen others, and notU,tbs+on,
ing the police were notified of The den-
redatlons and besought to attar,,. -
capture Oh the robbers, the residents cIa,n,
1N'e absolutely nothing was done for their
p-oeect4oh' and that the burglars were
pe- iA''eo not only to escape but to con-
Ihue terrorizing the neighborhood wban
Inelr arrest might have easily been Of
Aecteo- The alleged utter indifference -.
incompetence Of the police. as the iodio-
nant residents term 1t, has aroused he
he'gnporhood and Mayor Kiefer has bea,
notihed Of the affair. 1t is claimed that
"Aen the police were notified of tho bur
glars presence there was no superior of-
hcer about the station in fact. that tba
station and the entire district annaoro5
TO be In charge of some officer left a.
the station and the jailer. both of uvbo,,,
INFORMED the frightened resident who re-
p'Fteo the ourglaries that there was no
one 70 SEND after the robbers. Indtgna-
lioh runs nigh over the action of the
ponce and the residents say they want
10
10 Know II the kind of "protection'' aIIee-
ed to have been found in force Monday
mght is the kind they are getting all the
time If 1t is they say 1t is no wonder
that the 'St. Anthony hill terror picked
out Capt. LowelTs district for his worlr
ana that other depredations are freouent-
~ reported in this end of town.
TORE UP THE TOWN
The operations Of the burglars stamp
them as the boldest robbers that ever at
tempted to tear up the town" with
httle or no precaution against discovery
they forced doors and tore down screens
on one house while occupants of the house
next door were watching them. walked
boldly through alleys where they were
accosted by other residents, and even re-
turned to one house secohd time after
oelng frightened away by the shouts of
the inmates. Several persons got a good
view of the burglars, while watching
them trying to get into houses, but no one
with an opportunity to use a firearm had
anything in the nature of a weanon
When one frightened resident whose
house the burglars had tried to enter
managed TO slip away to the police sta
ton while the robbers were tearing a
screen from his neighbors window. the
police, ne says, received his information
with utter Indifference, and said thew
guessed no policeman could be sent after
the robbers because they were short of
officers" at the time. The people con-
cerned say they want to know why there
was shortage of officers, If such was
the case; also why the safety of the dis
trict was left to a jailer and a single DO
hceman, called into the station from his
beat; likewise why some one there did
not have authority to send out the patrol
wagon in pursuit of the robbers, and,
finally, why, after one of the men at the
station consented to leave his easy chair.
when the burglars were almost caught
running out of John Calendars residence.
259 Fuller street, with Mr.. Calendar at
their heels, the policeman did not take
after the robbers instead of simply taking
list Of the stolen property?
The burglars were first heard of at the
residence of Benjamin Burgeson, 400 Sum-
NIT place. Mr.. Burgeson heard some one
trying the windows of his home one side
of which Is on an alley. He got up and
saw two men under his bedroom window.
The burglars evidently decided to pass
r for
minutes consultation they began to try
the side windows at Henry Bennet's
house, 407 Summit place. Mr.. Burgeson
says he could plainly see the men, but
had no weapon with which to fire upon
them. The robbers tried the back door
of the Bennett home and one disappeared
inside, when a dog in a neighboring barn
began to bark. The burglar inside came
quickly out of the house and Mr.. Burgeson
shouted at them. They ran away, but
within five minutes returned. One of
them again went into the back door, ac-
cCrding to Mr.. Burgeson. The door leads
to a flight Of steep steps going into the
cellar. Scarcely had the burglar disap-
peared than there was a loud noise as of
a heavy body falling An examination
afterward showed that the burglar had
plunged head foremost down the cellar
stairs, breaking one of the steps. He
did not reappear at the door but tore off
a screen in the cellar window opening
on the alley and made his escape in this
manner This Mr.. Burgeson says occur
red shortly after midnight.
WENT FOR THE POLICE.
About 1890 A Schwabel, living at Az
Jay street, but half a block from the
two Summit place residences, says he
heard some one tearing at the screen in
the lower window of his home He got
up and, listening, heard some one go
around the house to the other side. Here
the burglars, Mr.. Schwabel says, also
tried to force open window. Mr..
Schwabel says he was looking out Of an
upstairs window and plainly saw the men
next go to the windows of A Anderson,
414 Jay street. The burglars carefully
leaped over board walk and Mr.. Schwa-
bel says went to work on the window
with some kind of glistening tools. At
this jucture Mr.. SchwabeI decided to go
for the police. Without waiting to fully
dress he quietly left his home and ran
to the Rondo station. He says he told
the two policemen at the station that
burglars had tried to get into his house
and were doubtless at the time already
in the house occupied by Mr. Anderson.
Mr. Schwabel says he was told that the
burglars had probably fed before he got
to the station and that it would be use
less for the police to go with him. Then