The sun., 1903-12-09
WHO STOLE PEINBERG SAFE (?
OR DID ANY ONE LUG OFF THE
500 POUNDS OF IRON?

Mr.. Feinbers Says So and Reports the Case
to tho POlice-In II, It's Said, Were
Papers Necessary to = Suit Which
His Wife Has Started Against Him.
Capt. Shaw OF the Madison street station
and his detectives are trying to figure out
how 1t was possible for thieves by night
to lug from the dining room OF the apart
ments of julius Feinberg, at 2o4 East Broad
way, an iron safe and it's contents without
making noise enough to wake servant
girl who was sleeping not more than ten
feet away, or any of the Fenbergs-hus
band, wife and two children-who also
were sleeping near the dining room.
julius Feinberg reported the robbery to
the Madison street police yesterday fore
noon. He said that the safe contained
$35 in money, some jewelry and, more
important than either, number of valuable
papers bearing upon the real estate holdings
and other business matters Of MIR. and Mrs.
Feinberg.
This is not the first time the business
complications of the Feinbergs have come
into publicity. Several weeks ago 1t was
announced that Mr.. and Mrs. Feinberg,
while living together in apparent amity,
figured in the courts as defendant and
plaintiff. respectively in spirited dispute
involving what was alleged to be very
considerable amount of property.
According to the papers in the suit +,
Mrs. Feinberg, when she married Julius.
was a prosperous dressmaker, with real
estate and other property Of considerable
value. On her marriage she put all her
real estate and other business in her hus-
bands name, with the result that there
came financial differences between the
two, followed by suit for an accounting
by her husband. The suit has not come
to trial, nor has it been withdrawn: In
the meantime Mr. and Mrs. felnberg nave
continued to live together, apparently in
, entire harmony. Mr.. Feinberg said at the
time that the papers in the case we're filed
that the issue would never come to trial.
and that the whole affair grew out OF the
Vaccinations of his enemies.
Now has come the further complication
Of the abduction Of the very safe in which
were slowed away papers, the police were
told, absolutely essential to the success
full prosecution by Mrs. Feinberg OF the
case against her husband. Both she and
her husband had the combinati ion to the
safe and for six years 1t had been in their
Joint possession. The last time they saw
it was at about o'clock yesterday morning,
when they left it standing in its accustomed
place and went to bed.
gone. Neither they nor their children nor
their servant girl nor any member OF the
three other families living In the house had
heard sound during the night. The SER
want girls room opened out of the dining.
room and her bed was within few feet OF
where the safe st ood.
There is a brilliant electric light squarely
in front Of the Feinbergs' house door, and
d, there was a particularly alert policeman
on that beat. Neither he nor anybody
else saw any one coming from the house
carrying a safe that weighed q quarter OF
ton Strangest of all, the robbers did not
leave a mark of any kind to indicate how
they got into the Feinberg apart tments'
The doors we're locked when the Feinbergss
went to bed at night and they were locked
when hey got up in he morning
Mr.. Feinberg offers $500 reward for the
apprehension of the thieves, Mrs. Feinberg
SAYS that one man, n professional safe
mover, carried the safe upstairs on his
back when it was delivered at their present
home.
at is very remarkable case. said Capt.
Shaw; very remarkable, There were two
little dents in the oilcloth on the floor on
the spot the Feinbergs pointed out as the
place where the safe had rested. There
were no other marks to indicate that II had
been there or that it had been dragged out
from the wall 1t must have been lifted up
bodily. 1t is very singular