The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-22
IMITATION AMONG CRIMINALS.
THEY FOLLOU ONE ANOTHER IN
METgDDS or CRIME.
Remark able Instances From Records Of
SUGGESTED Eohber!cs and swlndles
That Have ilrrn opted When Dinner
j. Hour i.olAcr.cs We're Fashionable.

recognized ny Az engaged III tLtIl pt'oS-
ton, says tho London .tHsners. One sem
saticnal crime mikes Scotland Yard watch
full for others in which some of its peculiar
fea vii. be copied.
One of the most remarkable series OF
initiative crimes ia modern times occurred
at Windsor. While the Count and Countess
of Marcia were one February evening,
at dinner in their mansion near Virginia
Water some thNrcs assembled by means OF
rope ladder u a window Ia the Countess d
dressing room, entered the room and,
having collected rich booty OF rings
watches. brooches, necklaces and other
trinlicts, worth some thousands oi POUNDS,
disappeared with them.
For considerable time past there had
been none of these dinner hour robberies.
Now the feat f these thieves was To make
them common. Strangely enough. their
imitators even selected the same neighbour
hood. Within a few wcnHs, while the Bel
gian Ambassador. VI van de Weyer, and
his wife We're dining in their residence at
New Lodge, thieves made n clean sweep OF
nadain's jeweiry in precisely the same
fashion. The next gang Of imitators were
not so luchy. Through mistake in the
dining hour q Lord Peterborough they
timed their visit to His I.ordshp's house
o., early in the evening. lnstea! OF being
an dinner hi- Lordship had gone for
q i've. from which he returned later than
md been expected. On going up stairs
10 his dressing room he found the door
~ ID. When it was broken open the thieves
had ,anished, but his iewelry. scattered
an me bed ready for packing up. was stlIl
,r..e. Similar ~ these robberles were
fa.. we're the work Of different criminals,
DIV, ..,.t,.ting the first. They soon had imi-
t',. - an over ''' 'ou,'.''' .,,o,,-, .Tho
ainabJrouEhs great picture ihe
Ii.rhess cf Devonshire" was stolen one
r,.r. from AIc.srs. Aenew s gallery in Old
!, mi s,ro.+ LIS. thieves who cut the picture
- 10 stree w ''"r'T7 -. ,1 ,,,l,.;aI =
from its frame, 'II'd IL up ana ooi' .eu
#. There had been No ROBBERY OF 'he
lind since 1850. when burglars visited the
,,ict,,rn e,,I,,ry in tbs Earl Of Suffolk's resi-
p.o'u' 80, l,.ar,,nall with gov.
oerce an" '"' "u' "''' i."|, T.; =.
eral pictures, oi "hIln lteF "leu III VAN 70
dispose. In disgust they at last aban-
doned the treasures. worth some thousands
- r,o,,,l. bid;,r tha,n under one of the
~ ff ISincG'T,a,. ,r,d~a where they
arenes s %i Ths nerrStrstsr, Of the
49, ,'r,h ,tnft t,ynia ,,u,aIIy unfor-
H .,,a IL; ,,,, nitsr,rts to make money
~. w.; ~. ,r;',,n Xii thav had their imi-
- nj, 49,. ., ~ ,-,',r -f.in,a. ,Dnte
tators: il'e fy, ,t,., bar in,, WnoG yilla
an eh'rE U"'''7 and nrt from thrir
Eoase, .l"I a. IN ,ict,ra. vaI,,eJ
frames "tn' ',ca a n y" Va" ~
at ron 1!o''"u ,,,,c,, vit,ei dor-
In pesetmirr Gi 'N''' g., 4'i,e ~. ~ PaJdinq-
ing thiel' WHO tH.,i., - tt'e hns,Io
ton station 'ooh "!N,'''"E' ~ .' ,;,.aI -
on the patron We ',r W
the lrlhce OF N%t9 w. ~. " cf n,G%,,
The jewel case oi 'il' '"',i,'Ss "a ~ ru. 90
which contalheu GINS 'ui'' ~. n,,.,-G,
coo. The jewel case Has IN llle G,lS,. .y
of two female servants; WHO rSatne" .i.e
station IN can ! ~ ilrSt aAtiii h IL on
the cab, put ne cas-" Gown on tile paw paw,
ment and turned around 70 ASSIST her con- orr
panlon out OF inc NcHit,n. men sine
looked for the ease aeath !, was gone, oeEtr
Ing upon the arrival or o' a.; a.. u VI tHSaIiy
az an opportunity tor inert iinineaiat Hiy
sprang INTO fashion a th ,n'ereS, ne
very next hl3n,t, Ut tLle same sl" .i.n as
the DUKE OF rulh'!lfgh was passing '.'loush
H. thieves loutu an oPior'uinty 10 TOD
en- attendaht OF .he iIsslau A'Ltpassauor'
aaron hutoW' Oh n'7 "trss'iS case, con,
tanning jewels worth some thousahos OF
pcGnos: , IT.
Inc TACT tha' tne nan ne chose as ms
example was ie%"ioeu WIN zen years
penal serVlIu'" dLd hH' uet'f iafTsy, tNe
jewel thiei, rom resolving TO initiate ms
plan. lhe hrst thiet ordered several
thousand pOunu5 worth u le"eTy from