The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-03
SUMMER BURGLAR BUSY TIME
OTHER FOLKS VACATIONS GAVE
MN PLENTY or WORK.

The Aymar. willard anM Marshall ROD
berries Keep the Police Busy--They Got
One Man, nut lie Dropped Into Their
Hands took It Easy n Aymar House
The summer burglar who works while
the family IL away at the seashore mas
been getting in his work this last week.
The epidemic has been rather mild ono;
a half dozen cases, large and small, cover
IL, The police say that there has been
less work of this kind In the last summer
than ever before.
Two OF the cases, however have been
Q little out Of tho ordinary, and ono Is
first class police mystery. This Ia the
robbery at the house OF d. Seymour Will
lard, at s04 West Elghty-fourth street.
The house was robbed on Wednesday
night.
Albert Banks, trusted and old en-
p)oyee OF Mr.. Willard, has been watching
the house this summer. Late Wednesday
evening he went through the premises.
Everything was in shape. Next morning
he returned to find the place turned up
by the roots The burglar had smashed
q hole in q skylight and proceeded to the
basement, where most OF the Willard valu-
ables were stored. There he had tossed
aside and abandoned lot Of valuable
furs and had smashed open trunk be-
longing to Mr.. Wizards mother. From
that he had taken box OF old fashioned
iewelry. Two pairs OF opera glasses were
missing from one OF the servants rooms.
Nothing else was gone. The jewelry.
while valued for it's associations, Is not
worth more than $500.
It has rather the look of an inside job.
There were other trunks in the basement,
but none contained jewelry except Mrs.
Seymour's, and none other was broken
open. The burglar might have lifted
lot of furs. clothing and silver, but he stuck
to the easily portable jewelry. The police
Of the West Sixty-eighth street station
and private agency are working on the'
case.
The Aymar case, while a serious matter
for Mr.. Aymar, had its farce comedy fea-
lures. gang OF burglars took possession
of Jose Aymar's summer shut house at ~
East Fifty-fourth street. camped there ior
two or three days, made beds on the dining
room floor, refreshed themselves from,
the wine cellar, from which they picked
the best wines with rare discrimination,
and looted the house at their leisure.
The neighbors remember that for day
or two men as to whose appearance they are
house with suit cases and bundles, Every
thing went with them. They took the silver,
the best table linen, the bric-a-brao and
even their selection Of the paintings. The
police refuse to say, at this stage OF me
game, just what paintings they took. but
It ia understood that their taste In art was
as good as their taste in wines.
The haul was estimated, in the beginning,
at 100000. The police say that this il
z gross exaggeration. No one. one N m, NeW ,
down, because no one knows how many OF
his belongings MIR. Aymar stored and how
many he left,
MI Aymar returned home about II o'clock
last night. He went to the looted house
with Capt. Lantry and several detectives
to see if he could estimate the value OF what
had been stolen. He gave 1t up. He said
Mrs. Aymar had attended to the packing
when they left for their country place
and that until she returned this week 1t
would be impossible to tell how much had
been stolen
The caretaker OF the house next. door
entertained last week well dressed man
and woman who asked for food and also
house. This Is about the only clue.
Piscario Fernandez. Mr.. Aymar's valet,
who discovered and reported the robbery,
has given the police rough description
of some Of the silverware and paintings,
and the pawnshops are being watched;
slenderly policed Of late. The East Fifty
first street station Is short OF men, Two
beats have been combined, and the post
Of the single policeman on duty runs from
avenue. Then the New York Central
excavations make 1t hard for the police
man to get about and made 1t easy for the
Aymar thieves to watch his approach;
At midnight Friday Policeman Leblanc
Of the traffic SQUAD pulled an a. alleged bur
his hands. 1t was one Emil Edwards, a
Frenchman, and he was apparently maxi
ing his getaway after going through the
house of James G. Marshall, at West End
goods, consisting Of iewelry and valuables
from the Marshall house, were on him.
So were glass cutter, jimmy and re-
aHe had the gall" said Capt. Handy,
ito tell me that he was a sculptor! A low
Edwards was before Magistrate Noes
yesterday. He was arraigned for bur.
glary and carving concealed weapons and
held without bail. There is just a sus-
In the Aymar and Willard cases, and this
will be looked into before his examination
on Monday.
=, Charles Holden. another young man
!; suspected Of being q. thief. was also before
Magistrate Noes. He was arrested in an
and Central Park West The police took
from him twenty eight skeleton keys, a
bent screwdriver, a buttonhook and an
aluminium comb filed down to lockpicking
thinness.
Holden was recognized by. ida Munciee,
the ianitress Of house in Ninety eighth
street that was robbed recently, as q
stranger she saw in the building. The
police said they could produce witness
ments that were robbed. Magistrate Moss
said he would give the police until Monday
TO do so. and held the defendant in 81 900.
The police suspect that Holden. may be
the man responsible for many robberies
on the upper West Side where entrance
was gained by skeleton keys instead Of
iimmies.
THINK THEY HAVETHE Bu RGLAR
Yonkers Police Believe Mr.. Young Caught
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