New-York tribune., 1901-11-13
DIAMOND THIEVES PLOT
LOCK CUSTOMERS IN STORE
AND BREAK PLATE GLASS.
LONG AND SUCCESSFUL CHASE AFTER
WAR FOR DIAMOND TRAY

Locking a jeweiler, his clerks and customers
in store, and then smashing a plate glass win
dow behind which trays of diamond rings
and other jewels. was the plan pursued at o:lo
p. m. yesterday by robbers In attempt to roo
the 1ewelry store of Charles Hoenninger. at No
80 Third-ave., hardly stones throw from the
East Thirty -ffth-st police station The thieves
were not successful and one of them was capt
ured after a long and exciting chase One tray
| which the thieves came near getting contained
damon Is valued at $2,623.
In locking the front door of his store, MI
Hoenninger reinforces the ordinary lock with
large paddock When many people were passing
to and fro, two men approached the 1e"eiry
store One of them walked up to the closed door.
| Dushed the hasp over the staple. and In the
staple snapped lock which he had taken from
| his n,cket The other man hurled a paving
stone through the bottom OF the : by 1 feet plate
| glass window. The moment the hole had peeh
made in the window, the man reached In Win
| his right and grasped the edge OF d tray
| of diamonds. He had to pass his hand ana arm
| beneath light iron grating or guard to do so.
From where he standing behind q counter
| in the front of the store Mr. Hoenninger saw
| lust what had happened He shouted. mace
| dash for the window. and grasped one side or
| the trav which the thief trying to orae
! through the hole in the window The two had
| q tug of war the hand of the wouldbe roober
| being repeatedy cut and lacerated on the Jasseu
edge of the glass While this was going on An
! thony Novey. a clerk, thought OF soe ooo
/ opening into the hallway that opens on the
| street and through this he dashed. HIS coming
was heard by the man tugging with MI. Hoeh-
| ninger and the thief let go and ran iowa" "
| rbirrv-ffth-x The man who had locked the
door had already taken flight and olsappeaieo
up Third ave.
| hist and InlTu-dNe.
| nere Detectives John H Ouinlan and William
| r Meehan and Police Captain Delaney Ihey
| toned Novey in the chase. Others fell In ne ne
| hind shouting. stop him. stop hi'i''
| Thief"
| The chase led down Thirty-ffth-st. TO Second
| ave The fugitive tried to board a southpouiiu
| electric car but the was going TOO fast %
| he tried to throw his pursuers OF by ooosiis
| around the car and other vehicles. Novey. how
| ever was too fleet for him Novey hao re-
| volver He snapped 1t five times out the re-
yolyer was out Of order and would not go on, ON,
! At Thirty fourtl-st and Second ave 'le tue
| tive ran ln the stairs of the elevated std'ioii,
| So,.a,r Grabbed his coat tails and was hanging
| on as n for life when the detectives came up
| They seized the prisoner, there was y S,ni,t
and all lost their footing and rolled IN d Jun Jun =
! to the foot Of the stairs. The prisoner protested
| that he was not of the thieves was Iun- @
ming after the man you ~a9t; n station. and
! +hare Mr. Hoenninger identified him as the mar, man
with whom he had struggled FOR the nr
| of the diamond tray The cuts on tfe p',son. .s,s
| right hand betrayed him. He described hifrseii
| as Henry Nelson, thirty-seven years oio- III.
The police say the prisoner IS Neiso5. 80 aa 40
| Henry Myers. alias Harry Lyons. NO -''oo iII ~
| the Roeues' Gallery. who served sefIense % IN IN
Sing Sing and five years In prison IN it@ehtoil. @
\ ] and who arrested in this city i Ausus'
| - Go2 for till tapping In the station the prs
| oner said You've got me dead 10 rights. he
| was 1ocxed up charged with burglary
| one of the diamonds. valued at $50 is MISS