The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-01
DOOR LOCKEDON BURGLARS
MIDNIGHT VISITORS At MIR. BUCKS
HOUSE OVERHEARD.

There Was Nobody In the House to Fight
Them, so They Wero Shut Out OF tho
Upper Rooms, Alto and Drank Up tho
Thanksgiving Dinner and We're Caught.
At 2 O'Clock yesterday morning Detectives
Finley and Germerhausen OF the Elizabeth
street police station met In the Bowery a negro
and white man. both drunk. carrying large
bundles. The detectives arrested both. The
negro was ugly and fought. In two OF the
bundles were linen tasle cloths: there was one
filled with clothing. and In another smaller
bundle was silverware.
The negro said he was John Travis OF IL
Pell street The white man said he was John
Foley OF 1870 Park row. The men were sep
arated and the detectives tried to get some
thing out Of them. The negro was surly and
wouldn't talk. but the other was willing. He
said they had broken into house out In Brook
Ign somewhere and had eaten up somebody's
Thanksgiving dinner He didn't know the
number OF the house: "the Niger tended 10
all that" he said.
The detectives asked the man II he could
lead the way to the place. and he thought So
SO the detectives went to the Bridge with him
and thew boarded DeKalb avenue car. At
Franklin avenue he said:
Here's where we got in" He went tramp
nR aud took the detectives up and cross town
and over the district east OF Franklin avenue.
He recognized a big fence as one he had passed
before and several places seemed familiar. but
after four hours search he had to give IL up.
He couldn't remember the place.
The two prisoners were taken to the Centre
street court and Magistrate Pool remanded
them.
Pretty soon q general alarm came In from
the Ralph avenue station. Brooklyn, asking
TINT stolen q. linen. clothing and silyerware DO
sested the detectives and they went to the
BrT2oklyn station p. .n ~.
ing with his wife, and brother at 1919
Lafayette l,yn, avenue. Brooklyn: had reported
and We're to see e sSsut
s@S sey nGl g,s be sS Tos
basement window facing the yard behind had
been forced up BY thieves VINO had gone all
Oil people had the ir Thanksgiving dinner ali
only to be TEsre was sp Sren nfe aed
cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. ON the
?oT by r! TS. was gallon e%o6s
cutglnss tun blers by their sides. They ate
ana am drank ana drink some nf more when they
hail the bread. all the pie and all the wine
WIRE Tn,g yhrn;o ala .,,
at B Ssch wSc nc
athletic enough TO fight burglars. came down
ana lOckeu the door leadlng TO the basement
Tho detectives yesterday morning found that
this door had been pried at and we! -nigh
burst from its hinges. but 1t was made OF good
stun and with;tood the mauling; Upstairs
with the two old men and the old lady. were
family Jewels and Silvarware. heIrlooms like
the silver in tho basement, but far more valua-
Bile.
Last night Mr.. Buck came to tho Elizabeth
street police station with thu two Brooklyn
detectives and identified the clothing. the linen
and tho silver spoons. forks, knives and ladies
which had becn recovered. The initial "B"
was on each article
When Mr. Buck was informed that one Of the
prisoners was a negro he became ngitated and
asked to see the prisoner, He was taken back
to the cells, and he exclaimed at sight OF the
That's Niger Turner. I've known him
ever since he was boy"
Turner had lived with the family for years
and then got into trouble. so that now he Ia an
ex-convlct with his picture in the New York
and Brooklyn rogues' galleries. Oi the white
man. Mr.. Buck knew nothing. To-day the
Ielr Will b" sent N Brooklyn for trial.
Mr.. Buck comes Of n family OF photographers
and IL employed by the American Lithographc
Company at Nineteenth street and Fourth
avenue The Brooklyn detectives accom- panied
him home last night