The sun., 1901-12-03
HEINRICH CONRIED ROBBED.
SNEAK THIEF GETS SI5. 900 or
THE MANAGERS JEWELRY.
Los May he $40 900 Orders Conferred
on the Theatre Lessee In Germany
Conc. Too-Thief Got Into the House
BY Roof While Family Were at Dinner.


A sneak thief-or there may have been
more than one-got into e5 West Seventy
first street, the house Of Heinrich Conried
manager and lessee Of the Irving Place
Theatre, and made a fine haul last night
Mr.. Conried says the thief got jewelry
worth from $4,000 to $40 900 and left be-
hind within easy reach more valued at
S25 900. The Conrieds' house In four stories
and brownstone, The sleeping rooms are
on the second floor; and It was in Mrs
Conrieds on this floor that the jewelry
was stolen
Mr.. and Mrs. Conried went TO dinner down
stairs at 7 o'clock At that time every
thing seemed as IL should have been The
robbery was discovered rather more than
an hour later whom Mrs. Conried left the
dining room and went TO her room. She
saw at once that several things In her room
were out Of their ordinary places and went
at once TO the bureau in which she and
Mr.. Conried kept their jewelry. The
jewelry had been in two drawers One
Of these had beenemptied of its contents.
Mrs. Conried called her husband and
as soon as he had discovered that there
really had been robbery he telephoned
to the police. Sergt. Ryan was sent around
from the West SiNty-eighth street station
WIN fsNeIdl CltlfctlNtS ana three men
from the Detective Bureau were hurried
there. The police soon discovered that
the thief had broken open the skylight in
the roof OF the Conried house and had got
In that way. This window was fastened by
a patent lock, which had been wrenched
on. The window was open when tho po-
lice arrived.
The police searched for clues In neigh
boring houses and quickly found one.
The house at 63. next door, was vacant.
II was occupied until about three weeks
; ago by the family Of Mrs. Alice Craig. A
lawyer named Lewis began to move his
furniture into the house yesterday, but
the house was not yet tenanted again.
II was discovered that the basement
door was open and that the skylight win
dow had been opened from the inside and
left open. IL was also said that a small
safe In the basement had been forced open.
About this the police refused TO talk. They
admitted. however, that the thief had
got in through the vacant house
Mr. Conried, when the reporters saw
him. said he had been warned by the police
not TO talk too much and that on that ac-
count he could not say all he might. He
said, however, that the jewelry stolen was
worth from $4,000 to 500 900 These are
some OF the stolen articles as he described
them:
monds and valued at $500; n diamond heart
valued at 81 300, diamond necklace. on
whose pendant there was four-carat dia-
mond. and from which were suspended two
pear-shaped rubies: a four and "A half carat
diamond ring set with Olivines n diamond
horseshoe pin. valued at t,S)D; a scarfpin
set with three rubies and four diamonds,
four diamond rings. valued at $500 each: a
ring set with diamonds and large sapphire:
n watch studded with rpbies. valued at ssol,
a ring set with four diamonds and worth
81 500.
The thief also took three orders which
were presented TO Herr Conried by the
Emperor of Germany and which were
highly prized by the recipient.
SThs thief said Mr. Conried "left
behind In the very next drawer 70 the
one he emptied jewelry worth as much
as that he took In the drawer
which he actually did ransack
he left chain with a diamond buckle which
was worth 81 800. and number Of small
articles, such a. gold cigarette and cigar
cases.
AS TO who committed the theft we have
no suspicion--or at least have none The
thief could work in silence while wa were
at the dinner table because all the foors
UPSTAIRS are heavily carpeted-