The sun., 1903-01-31
.SLBUTnS PLAY SNEAK YHIBP.
CALL ON ". X. VANDERBILT AMI
OTH8RS AS 4 "LESSON."

"H22S ~ "LG9COVs
Capt. Lantsy wants - show That Hsuse-
holders Are - Name fss Rebbeeies
-Iselin Residence Ameag These Ex,.
tered-Cssd weicSms Ter the Cops.
Police Captain Lantry Of the East Fifty
Arst street station sent out his entire force
Of detectives yesterday 10 sct a. sneak
thieves do when they get Into houses. all
except the stealing part Of Il. According
To formal report which the eight slsut hs
made whsa they returned to the station
they entered forty-six houses, among them
those Of ". X. Vanderbilt and Columbus
O'Donneil lselIn.
Capt. LAntry says he did 1t TO show the
houssholdsrs Of his precinct that the police
were not responsible for sneak thieves,
but that recent robberies in the Fifth avenue
section OF town were due TO careless servants
who leave doors unlocked.
If Capt. Iantry Lad any idea tina. he
was going to make himself popular by his
action hs was on the wrong tack, for his
detectives were not thanked In . single
instance for their object lesson.
On the contrary. according 10 all ac-
couhts, the sleuths got the most general
tongue flashing all along the line that the
butlers. maids and ordinary servants were
capable Of. The detectives said
why. the servants were actually dis
courteous In many cases.
These are the houses which Lantry aayS
his men entered and their occupants, SO
far a. the recsnt street directories show.
q East Forty-thrd strssts Roswell Q. Steb-
o.n. rSr;yf1Sits SHry;ass .iIsst 'is. fs
Anna n r Blskeman; Az West Forty-n
;',s:s KssssH .ts & SSSSn 3 Ea.
rsrssss ss:s :s:f of.ps Sif da.ss.
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street., i, Ea;. re-, s;s: :,T:.s Sra' =. We.
&::s h.ssss 'i%:s 4fea9Hs eea9s
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IT,, s:.S ~; ..s i:!
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e.: .ss :.,ss d. yrx Mry RsS
!. W.: W.: !$sss:sasS :: aEa sSs:s
fnlr!.sS !sssl, Dr.. wilism Q, Le Psut!iiisr;.
s; Ws.t Eit'i.th s9s street; Or Edward 2 rsot; s;;
vs.; y::s:s$$ :'s::s ss..s .i.,s:s R:s
.ssans w:T street. T. soh@s' -ysd Es's EW.s W..
-ioS5.hS street So,JG = SSodSip G Mss.
!Wsst TiitX second street, James RSmpill;;
,S .Is.: s. d..;.: %:S v ss : ~; ! E;: #.::;
!sI!a a'I!!s-a!:s :s.. sSs:: Emaau.. kniss; Ei ri
s,a.s; sshs" isr's: s.Sury broker; s !s'@s;s @sae
.v.sus. sstRad ADAM 'i s:ss l'sr 4, H:d::SSSS
Ths e.suths that did the york wsrs Hal
Decker. kay nd Holder. They were called
TO Lantry's offce at 3 p. M. and instructed
to do up tho work quickly.
plan bet ause Of a talk which he had with
Charles Bccktt, the sneak thief, who got
pto the house OF z. Parmales Prentice.
John D. Rockefeller's son.in-law. on Thurs
dav.
IAntry, -and he rel lied; 'Breas la, not hing:
rlade up my mind I'd show the. people of
this precinct who have teen complaining
about sneak thieves that their servants
were responsible
The detectives, according to their own
story, had all sorts Of trout g after they got
IN tho houses. Detective Byrnes, sccord-
ing to his report, was the one VIII got into
w X. vanterhit's houfe. Ile says he
CT in through the areawav and the base
Inept door, which was I'm gle gded, and then
walked unobserved up Ia the ground hoor
and stood in the hen VIII
4 could have carried or all the silver In
I he house. said Bvrnes later.
After cogi' a,ing in the hall, Byrnes says
he walked d.wn again and went out TO the
basement door ard rang the hell Byrnes
y ttli him." added Eyrnes, that I'd
teen up to the first floor and that Z ] hed
been a thief instead OF detective cot III
have carried "A anything wanted, He
told me l had no business there; said
police business wa. good enough; Then
I got out and helped my partners do some
Byrnes IL big. tall fellow with cheerful.
ruddy countepance.
One Of the houses on the list--that at Is
pied by ex-Surrene Court Justice George
p Andrews, Perhaps Capt. Lantry knew
the Justice had moved.
Besides the forty-eix houses that the
sleuths entered there were q number more
they they es don't 0%a rem.uSsS' fSey "s ssy they
worked the streets IN two groups OF fours,
two on one side Of the street and two OH
the other They started at 3 p. NJ. and were
all through their stunt at Q clock.
In many 81 the forty-six successful en-
frances the sleutbs say they got a. far as
the second floors before they were detected
When they were discovered or announced
their presence. they eay. they simply showed
their badCes ard told their nission.
tho people didn't SOON to realize tha.
we were doing this for their own gocd,'
sa'd one Of the elcTh. The bur lers In
many inst anoes were not only discow-
teous, but even told us that we h&d 40 busi-
ness In their houses
: why, Of course. We have q right TO enter
houses when We find doors oren,H said Cep,.
IAntry. 1T makes no difference wheth,r
II II In the day or the night, Isn't u police
mans duty to g In a house a. zee that
everything u all right whom he finds door
open, Why. We have every right In the
world.
I'm eick and tired OF hearing these kicks
about robberies In houses ~ this pred c.
It's up TO the ssrvants. Why. in many in.
dtanoes my men were In thesc houses ten
minutes and nobody caught EN-, Why.
hoy could have lugged away the houses.
But just think q H. We weren't thanked
The captain thought his experiment
q great success
Old Blockade nunnss Ashere.
Another old-timer. the former blockade