The Republican journal., 1903-08-20
BURGLARS IN BELFAST.
Money and valuables Taken from a Private
Residence.

Residence.
A bold theft was perpetrated at the home
of Chas. n. Black, "a High street, last Fri
day evening between 7.3O and o'clock Mr..
Black was not at home at the time, but Mrs.
Black was on the piazza at the front of the
house not more than thirty feet from the
window where the entrance was effected.
A full-length screen fastened to a pantry
window by iron buttons was taken Off and
the window pushed up. Single matches
were lighted and the ends left ON the kitchen
table and in other places about the house.
Nothing was disturbed on the first floor,
but the dressing case in the room occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Black was thoroughly ran
sacked, the drawers left open and the boxes
scattered about. Evidently the theft left in
a hurry or he would naturally have taken
other valuables in sight. A key is missing
from the door that connects the hall at the
foot of the back stairs with the barn and a
door of closet in the barn, which is always
kept locked was found open. Mr.. Black on re-
but his wife made the discovery few min
utes later and the city marshal was notified
before nine o'clock. Mrs. J. G. Damon, who
was calling on Mrs. b., called her attention
to a man dressed in long brown coat, who
passed and repassed the house, the4adies
concluding he was stranger looking for
some one; and another neighbor said that
he heard long, shrill whistle just as Mr.
Black crossed the street to enter the house
The robbery was either the work of a per
son who was intimately acquainted with
the plan of the house, or of an expert in the
business. Mr.. Black lost only a large dia
mond solitaire ring, but his wife lost three
diamond solitaire rings and one containing
three smaller diamonds; a cluster star pit
of diamond chips; a solid gold watch with
Hunting case, a gift from her deceased
mother; two gold watch chains, a long and
a short one; gold thimbe; an old ivory
brooch, elaborately carved, a gift from al
uncle, sea captain, who bought it in japan
(it has a setting of solid gold); a gold and
ebony pencil;a a plated gold locket, heavily
chased and containing large pearl butter
cup ear rings set with pearls; blue tleur-
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more or less mutilated-one had a hole in il
and another had had pin on 1.-TWO ole
foreign silver dollars of years in 1900, anG
5000 in money, which was in an old pocket
book wound up in All apron and put among
clothing in lower drawer. The matter is
in the hands of the city authorities, and S20(
reward has been offered.
1t is thought that the burglars made theil
departure by rail. A hand car was stolen
from the Maine Central section house al
Waldo Friday night. People at Brooks
Knox and Thorndike heard a hand car &c
by in The night, and two men who looked
like tramps got on the east bound freight
train at Burnham Saturday morning. One
act of these men marked them as other thar
members of the hobo tribe. They washed
their faces at a pump at Burnham station
The hand-car was afterwards found il
Twenty Five Mile stream about mile
south of Burnham on the branch. 1t is
supposed that the men left the east bount
train before reaching Bangor and bearded
one bound west.