The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
Only ACTRESSES IN NiGHTIES.'
BURGLAR HUNT NEXT THE HAIR.
NOME CLUB TERMINATES.
tho Ladies' We're Attacking tho souttio
with Hammer and Chisel In Search OF
More Air When Policemen Arrived
At Both Ends OF the stairway.

| Tho Ladies' We're Attacking tho souttie
With Hammer and Chisel In Search OF
More Air When Policemen Arrived
At Both Ends OF the stairway.
The building east OF the Harmonic Club
In West Forty second street, Is furnished
room house. The slumbers Of bellboy
employed in the club were rudely disturbed
yesterday morning at 8 o'clock by the
sounds Of hammering in the furnished
room house. The boy listened awhile and
then concluded that some one In the house
adjoining was chopping his way through
the walls to get into the club.
He ra over to Sixth avenue. where he
found Policeman Kennel and told story
OF burglars. and Kennel gathered In Conroy
and Summers. plain clothes men OF the same
station.
The three cops entered the club escorted
by the bell boy and they heard the hammer
Ing sound that the boy had heard. They
were satisfied that there was something do.
Ing In the burglar line and they conferred.
1t was finally agreed that Kennel should
60 to the door of the furnished room house
and ring the bell and try to get In. The two
plain clothes men would cover the roof OF
the house by way OF the clubhouse roof.
Kennel was admitted to the furnished
room house after he had rung the bell a
couple Of times. He told the person wno
let him in that he was after couple Of bur-
glars, and then he orept up the stairs softly
with his revolver In his hand. Before he
had got to the top of the first flight Of stairs
the noise Of hammering beganagain. having
stopped when he was admitted.
A.
with their revolvers out ready for action,
and they, too, heard the hammering more
distinctly there than they did in the club.
Kennel made no noise climbing the stairs,
and the nearer he got to the roof the louder
the hammering.
When he got to the top floor he saw two
white robed figures standing on ladder.
One was welding a hammer, the other a
ohisel The ladder they stood on led to
the scuttle and they were trying to open
that,
What are you doing there said Kennel
sternly to the two white robed ones.
In reply they dropped the hammer and
ohisel and descended the ladGer. They
were In their nightes and they Indignantly
demanded to know of the policeman why
he had intruded. The cop explained.
well. it's too bad said one of the young
women, IF a couple of ladies that are on
the stage can't try to open the scuttle Of
the house they live in If they think they
want little more air."
Kennel fastened to assure them that
they had this right, and he offered to open
the scuttle for them. 1t was closed so
tight that he had to Use the hammer and
chisel He poked his head through the
opening when he had finished the Job and
Conroy and Summers covered him with
their guns.
IT'S all right" said Kennel, its only Q
couple of actress ladies trying to let in
some fresh air"
where are they2" asked the two plain
clothes men. lightning to descend the
ladder. But the two actress ladies in their
nighties had shut themselves in their room.
The cops departed by way Of the roof.