Evening star., 1902-09-13
THIEVES WITH HUMOR
Some Of the Tricks Played
on Gothamites.
A JEWELER HELD UP
ONE EVEN STOLE WATCH DOGS
FRoM.HoUsE.
The Falling Off Trolley Car Scheme
Worked to Advantage by
Acrobat.
NEW YORK. September - u
special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, September l., 1902.
| number of humorous thieves have been
! operating in and around New York lately.
One of them walked into Brooklyn jew
| eiry establishment the other noon hour.
The proprietor Of the shop was alone. in
the place. his employees having gone out
| for luncheon. The noon-hour visitor was
| well-groomed man of agreeable manners.
4 He wanted to examine some two-karat
| blue-white solitaire diamond rings, he said.
| The proprietor placed a tray Of valuable
gems on the counter. The visitor selected
| four of the rings, valued In the aggregate
at $1,000. and set them aside, saying that
| he desired them as presents for racing
| friends"
Make me a figure on the four of them"
| said the visitor
Twelve hundred is the bottom figure" :"
said the teweler, pleasantly but firmly.
| Too much,' said the visitor. I'll give
you one pistole for Them whereupon he
| suddenly covered the jeweler with re-
volver, picked up the rings of his choice
| and about half dozen others from the
| tray with his left hand and deposited them
| In MS coat pocket. backed out of the door,
| stlil covering the jeweler raced across the
sidewalk to an automobile, in which he had
| ridden to the shop, turned on the full
| power of the machine. and was many
| squares away before the jeweler emerged
| from his trance. He may still be going, so
| far as the authorities know.
Threw Bricks Through Window.
A couple of days after that young man
dressed in the uniform of an L guard stood
| in front of the window of pawnbroking es-
tablishment on one of the uptown 9th ave
nue. L station corners The window was
cluttered with splendid jewels. The uni
formed young man examined the display
Tor a long time. Then he undid a package
wrapped in newspaper that he carried. The
package contained two bricks. both of them
neatly Sewed in coverings of carpet. TAX
lng a carpet-covered brick in each hand,
the young man let them fly simultaneously
through the pawbroker's window. The
bricks made a sufficiently large hole in the
plate-glass window for the youths pur-
pose. He reached both of his hands
through the jagged orifice, swept some
thing like $1,000 worth of unredeemed dia-
mond pledges into his pockets. regardless
of the gaze of the startled passersby. and
then he executed quick sprint up the
elevated stairs. An uptown train was Just
coming along. The youth had of course
timed his little adventure so as to just
about catch this uptown train. He caught
It, and was whirling along to the next sta
ton before the shouting pawnbroker and
his employees had much more than reached
the street. When the train reached the
next station, only a few blocks above the
station at which he had ruined the pawn
brokers' plate-glass window, the young
man stepped off the train. and; when it
pulled out he calmly walked across the
tracks to wait for a downtown train. He
was allowed to do this, because he wore
the L uniform. and the L employees on
duty naturally thought that he was one of
the company's employees. He got the next
down train-and passed into oblivion. The
paWnbroker, of course rushed up the i.
steps alongside his place, and had the agent
telegraph to the station above for a search
of the train. but he was too late, and any
how. by the time the message was sent the
thief was well on his way down town with
his plunder.
Burglar Feeds Watch Dog.
Over in pretty Bensonhurst the other
night burglar, saying to enter the rear
yard of a handsome house on his route
book, was annoyed by the antagonistic
spirit shown by a couple OF bull terriers in
the yard. However. the burglar was pre-
pared for something of the kind He undid
package of nicely cooked lamb chops that
he had brought along and began to feed
the dogs. The chops made hit with the
dogs and the burglar found himself per-
soma grata in that yard. He entered, still
throwing lamb chops at the dogs. Then he
tied the dogs together to a portico stanch-
ion, got into the house easily enough and
pocket Of the owner of the house he only
found SI5 in cash. which so disturbed him
that he could not refrain from awakening
the owner of the trousers and telling him
that he ought to be ashamed to carry such
cobbler'S bank roll about with him. The
awakened householder expressed appro-
pirate sentiments of sorrow for his thought
lessness, and the burglar, picking up his
bundle of fine silverware, walked down
stairs and out the kitchen door He united
the pair of thoroughbred bull terriers and
dragged them along after him. When
morning came the burglar sold the dogs to
a wealthy resident Of another corner of
Bensonhurst for $50 apiece. The burglar is
still absent while the man from whom the
dogs were stolen is suing his former friend
the purchaser of the dogs from the burglar,
for their return. --
A burglar who got into fine house over
in Montclair. n. J., the other night, lunched
leisurely. after he had finished his cleanup.
in the basement dining room. He regaled
himself with a bottle of claret with his
lunch but the wine did not appeal to his
connoisseur's palate, for he left this note
on the table:
"a man who will palm this kind of red
ink off on his friends st. Julien is all
kinds of a shine and a bogus, and he de-
serves to be robbed. It's worse than any
thing ever drank at a Hungarian picnic"
Swindled Trolley Companies.
Figuring close to the top of the list of the
ingenious tribe who contrive ways and
means of deriving good incomes without
working for the same is the nimble and
adroit chap who was arrested here last
week for swindling trolley companies by
suits for damages for fake injuries. This
fellow was for a number of years cor-
tortioniSt and all-around acrobat with vari-
GUS circuseS. Some years ago it seems he
reached the conclusion that the rough,
-night-stand existence of circus con-