The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
RAFFLESES ARE RUNNING RIOT
EAST NEW YORK SITS UP IN ITS
NIGHTIE, AFRAID TO SLEEP.
Amateur sleuths, Male and Female, and
Cops Galore. Beat tho Tall Grass
Thirsting for BAD BurEiarS Blood
Even the Rubber Plants Are Hidden.

Even the HuDDer PlantS Arc Iuuueh'
East New York Is panlcky. Groups
Of excited men gathered on corners ana
In saloons yesterday laying snares; police
men were disbursing legal opinions on
tho right to shed human gore-and how
much to shed--in the protection OF ones
property; hysterical females were racking
their brains to discover hiding places for
valusbes. all because the burglar scare
has grown to proportions beyond the power
of the police to solve.
In the section bounded by Bradford
and Fulton streets, Arlington and Miller
avenues folks armed with shotguns and
pistols. which are discharged reoklessly;
baseball bats, clubs and cobblestones,
patrol the streets. The police, In all man
per OF DISCUSSES, flash dark lanterns across
back yards and over veranda roofs, which
gives a naval war setting in effect like
battleships in midnight maneuvers at the
War College.
The burglar scare has keyed the folks
up to such pitch now that sleep is never
INDUCED In except few hours OF after
moons. Front gates are padlocked and
the ever present rubber plant is carried
upstairs and hidden away. But the elusive
Raffles Is still at large, except when he Is
busy inside a house.
On Friday night the bold burglar at
tackled the house OF Detective John Twill
man, So Bradford street. Scared off before
he secured anything, he vaulted the back
fence and tackled house on Miller avenue,
where he secured gold watch and small
sum OF money. Detectives were In front
OF the house while the burglar was getting
in at a back window.
Early yesterday morning.s man who
gave his name as Tom Riley WAS caught
by Detective Twillman skulking through
the yard OF IS Bradford street. He
was taken to the Liberty avenue station
house and later held by Magistrate Fur
long In the Sixth District Court for
examination on Aug. IS. The Magistrate
scored the police-and incidentally re-
ported the robbery Of his house, where he
missed his photograph few nights ago.
After the arrest OF Riley Mrs. Kamm Of
81 Bradford street saw man sneaking
along her back yard She screamed I.
and soon the entire neighborhood was
armed and In the street. Some one fired
q pistol. and the cops appeared from
beneath porches and back OF trees. Dark
lanterns were flashed and who goes there2'
challenged every one. Every yard was
covered In the block and systematic searches
were made Of all cellars, porches and fences.
The alarm spread, and a patrol wagon bear
ing all the reserves from the Liberty avenue
station dashed up and took posts in Miller
avenue Then Capt. Cullen appeared In
person.
A nervous woman might see something
In a neighbours back yard and Historically
cry the alarm. Then from all quarters the
police would rush to the scene Of expectant
carnage only to discover a frightened cat
or to surround one OF their own men on
the trail of his excited imagination.
The police were kept at it until long after
daybreak, beating the tall grass with night
sticks. The only result was putting into
circulation millions Of ferocious mosquitoes,
which stung to final retreat indoors the
armed but determined, held points Of van
tage on veranda roofs and in upper win
dows, voicing commands and starting the
now badly bitten cops on false, trails.
That the situation is indeed serious and
needs prompt and effective measures can
be taken from the fact that at least twenty
plain clothes men are working in that neigh
borhood along. In their presence, however,
there Is an element Of danger. Last Tues
day night Detectives Wilson and Twillrnan
we're shot at by an oye5zealous citizen near
Citizens are being sworn in as special
policemen. Among them is A. H. Weston,
Z real estate broker. At the Liberty avenue
police station is a long list Of houses which
have been robbed recently: DR.. Kiel, 10
Barley street; H. A. Vaudeville, IS Schenck
avenue; Mrs. John Plum, Schenck avenue;
Mrs. julius Strong, 81 Schenck avenue;
Mrs. Emanuel Wagner, 80 Schenck avenue ;
A. Schwartz, Barley street. whose rear
yard ADULTS that of Mrs. Warner; Julius
Foote, 6s Schenck avenue, and so on, show
ing the thorough methods of perseveTing
and systematic burglary.