The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-03
HAD GOODS FROM EYERYSTORE
MANY PARCELS IN ROBINSONS
FLAT MARKED ram,
Some Mrs, Robinson Certainly Bought;
Some Have other Peoples Names
Couples Past Mystery Nelghbors'
Things Not Found--No store Charge \ CT


Couples Past Mystery NPlghbors'
Things Not Found--No store Charge Yet
Six detectives of tho West Twentieth
street station started in Yesterday morning
at 3 o'clock To assort and take an inventory
{ Of tho goods that were piled up in the three
little rooms occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
| Thomas Robinson at 2i0 West Nineteenth
street When they quit at o o'clock last
night they we're willing TO admit that 1t
would take at least week to finish tho job.
In fact. they had only begun it.
About all they could do yesterday was
! TO open some Of the bundles and get an
idea "a to the character of tho goods and
where they had come from. They left eight
or nine medium sized trunks untouched
with the locks still on them and 40 heavily
packed that il is difficult for two stout
policemen to handle them. What they are
filed with no one yet knows. One OF them
was broken open and found 10 be crammed
with towels. tablecloths, hedspreads quilts.
handkerchiefs. cheap iewelry and dress
goods It had evidently been undisturbed
for long time.
There isn't much left to be found out,
however for any article that can be seen
in the big department stores of New York
/ mas been found in these three rooms Every
counter in every dry goods or department
store in New York from Fourteenth street
/ 10 i25th street, is represented This tho
/ police say, is not a poetic eNaggeratlon. hut
! a literal fact The tags found on the goods
/ prove it, One of the packages, containing
! collarettes and ribbons, came from depart
ment store in Brooklyn
All the goods ara in neatly tied packages
and boxes some of which have never been
/ opened. Many of them are tagged and
| a large number are marked paid The
! detectives think that these may possibly
! be parcels which other purchasers had laid
on counters while looking at goods, and
which we're picked up while the owners
backs were turned. There are also, how
/ ever packages with the names and adj
! dresses Of other persons, and the detectives
! are completely puzzled as TO how these
/ found their way into the Robinson MAJ
| Some Of the parcels are in Mrs Robinson
! own name These she unquestionably
| bought. Many Of these have never been
| unpacked Some goods. which are pal
| paby new, the detectives allege. have been
! washed in order TO make them appear a.
! il they had been in use. In some cases
| where the articles were small. those com
| ing from the same store were packed IN
one box and labelled.
A big department store on West Four
! teenth street near Sixth avenue appears
TO have been the heaviest source OF supply.
| Next was a similar establishment that re-
Gently moved up 70 Herald Square.
There were all sorts of things in the
| Robinsons' museum. Back in one corner
| was slowed away an irregular package
that proved to he a statue Of q woman in
/ prayer. The police placed II on the mantle,
! beside two automatic music boxes that
had been previously dug out There Is
4 N.la. as.s
large assortment OF old corsetS 81 an sizes
/ evidently second hand. A sack of seven
| pounds OF graduated sugar dated 1891
| was found under lot OF boxes containing
dozens of women's bats. large ana
elegantly upholstered footstoo had piled
| on II nearly 100 cheap fans. There were
over 1000 handkerchiefs from cotton TO
lace 500 packages of fine laokdress braid.
belts polcemens braces. mems hlgh SILK
| hats, over 200 pieces OF soap, boxes OF cigars
ten dozen solid silver spoons, fur slippers,
oo,fee onions and groceries of all kinds
| A whoop was heard from one of the de-
tectives as he unearthed a sealed bottle Of
famous brand of old whiskey;
1T beats the best curiosity, shop IN the
| city said Store Detective Lehman, who
| had finger in the pie all day.
One woman's black suit the detectives
estimated az worth $50. 1t was tagged,
and they hope TO he able to base a charge
of grand larceny omit. There was one pack,
| age of cough drops that had been mailed
| from England to a firm on Union Square
severaI Wears ago. One firm alone had
Z supplied nearly 900 neckties and collars
1 In deep among the packages was book.
/ not new entitled Looking Heavenward
There was stationery by the dozen boxes,
over 500 pairs Of ladies' gloves. piano covers
and Easter eggs On the bed where the
aged couple slept were six mattresses, with
paper between them.
40 complaint has vet been made by
any of the stores that the goods came from,
but Capt DAILY hopes that one many lie
lodged before O'Clock to-day, when the
couple will be arraiEned in jefferson Mar
ket court Otherwise, the case will he post
poned until the inventory Is completed.
The detectives say that the goods are the
/ accumulation Of a score Of years They
say there IL $4,000 worth Of property in
the place They wonder that the floor was
! able to stand the weight piled upon II.
number OF the stores will send exper
statesmen to work with the DETECTIVES to-day
and try to identify some Of the goods HE
management in two Of the stores say they
are sure that they have evidence enough
to lodge complaint
suspicious article in the kitchen vas
table with a yard measure on il and big
/ ball of Irvine near by. This showed, the
police thought. that cloth might have been
measured out there, and sold. wagon
load of loose wrapping paper found IN
one Of the rooms was taken away yesterday
morning.
In the search Yesterday uoneof theauiclos
missed recently from the rooms OF tenants
in the same house was found
As yet tho police have been unable TO
learn ANYTHING more about the history Of
the couple The other tenants in the house
saw they were very quiet. The woman
was frequently seen going out and in with
bundles. but she never made any acquaint-
ances The husband claims that he was
( employed a. anitor In the Masonic Temple
nj Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street
but as vet II is not known for certain that
he worked at anything. 1t Is known that
he is a member OF one Of the Masonic lodges
and Capt DAILY hopes to find out something
at the Masonic Temple to-day
5000, 900 FIRE ~ LONG BRANCH.