The sun., 1901-07-15
ROBBED UNINTERRUPTED.
GANG 0v SHALL BU8oLARs WR4CkED
TIE O'DONOHUB STABLES,


Police station and virs Headauartsrs In the
Rear and . Synagogue Next Deer. bst
GAns Was Able to Dsspoli the Place at
WM-Arrssts After Q Week sf LeetiAs.
The Twsnty.nfsh precinct police station.
now In charge Of Capt. stephen Z. Brown.
Ia at iss East sisty-ssventh street. Ad-
Joining II on the east side IA Fire HesdQuarts.s.
next to which stands tho synagogue OF the
Zichron Ephralm congregation. In the rear
OF tho synagogue. fronting on SiIty-eishth
strsst and within 100 feet OF the station. are
the private stables bslon sing 10 the family
OF tho lats Joseph J. O'Donohus. II was
discovered by q mere chance on Saturday
that for more than week gang OF youthful
burglars had been at work In those stables
and In tho rooms Of Coaohman Robert Holmes
above them. carrying away everything that
could be disposed Of a. junk and turning
everything else upside down until the plaoo
looked rs II II had been swept by tidal wave.
The O'Donohue family is spending the
summer At Auburn. N. Y. Their coachman
had been with them until he was summoned
back TO town BY the police 10 survey the wreck
Of his homo No one has beon looking after
tho ables. because II was thought impossible
for nny one TO force an entrance into them
without being observed from the engine
house and the police station. On Saturday
afternoon Policeman Devlin. walking leisurely
along East sixty-scventh strest, saw three
small boys. each carrying q well-nllsd bag
over his shou come out Of the alley separA-
ting the synagogue from Fire Headquarters.
.-Npthin'.- was the reply no got whcq he
asked what the bags contained Ihe lsEny
3 hat az Tar n~vf "A n n
ness TO get away was 50 apparent that Devlin
took them into custody and esoorted them
TO the station. bsss and al; The boys de.
Lemalre. il and years. old, respectively. Of
ii5s Third avenue, and Edward Reilly. u
years old. Of 1850 Third avenue. The 6sss
sf %sTS tSpnd 70 sd
housshQld After while the Iemairs broth
ers broke down and oonfoessd.
from 3 to"H to 4 years d old. had made a way Into
the stables BY hauling q heavy plank up 70
the lowest platform OF the fire escape In the
rear Of the synagogue and pushing IL as .
roof OF the extension IN the rear OF tho sta
bles. From the roof they dropped through
a skylight into the extension and forced
the lowermost panel in tho door leading 70
the extension. The task Of getting In that
way would have been dificult to yrown-up
burglars. but the boys conquered !, wlhd withhoI'
Every day last week they were busy drag.
ging out booty by way, Of the extension roof
and tho synagogue alley, They ransacked
the, place from roof TO cellar and smashed sd
without mercy everything that corld DO
sold az junk. There was not drawer or n
closet in the home Of the coaohinan that st
clocks were opened and tho. works taken
out 80 that the whoels might he sold as old
brass In the stables the harness was cut
70 pieces i,
Tho livery boxes, containing furs and
l.veries worth manv thousand dollars. were
len untouched What tho Soys aSs.aily; S6., !;
800, perhaps. out II would take many times
that sum To cover the damage they did.
when the police finally gained access TO
the place by summonins C,5adman Hoipes
from Auburn thoy found almost everything
porta BILE done up In packages ready 70 be
carried away at tho first opportunity, JNdg
of the gang TO sweep the place perfectly clean
II only they had had sufficient time
Tho three boys arrested were arraigned
In the .Yorkyillo policc court YESTERDAY and
remanded into the CUSTODY OF the Children's
Socicty pending further investi CATION. Tho
rest Of the gang are known to the police and
L. III d.