The evening world., 1905-12-28
BOLD BURGLAR
CAUGHT IN HOME
Of MILLIONAIRE
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sWatcbman in Van lngen
Residence Captures
Greedy Thief,
HAD GOT $1,000 LOOT.
Hid in the Mansion All Night,
Rifling Place at His
Leisure,

After taiuSlaT. smali OF girth bu
sinewy az panther. had all but so
away with 1850 worth OF loot In tn
home OF Edward II. Van Ingen. tn
millionaire importer. at No, Eas
sevcnty-drst street, he was eaught b,
b night watohman.
Tbs tuuble With John Madison IN
captured crook. Is that he was greedy
lie wasn't satisfied with lootlns a Jew
slry case OF st.sOo Ia gems. He wasn'l
oven satisfied with smoking six of Mr
van IngeTs fat and fragrant so-cen
cigafe. ffe wanted more-and he got II
whlstlng the latest comic opera hi
tho butcher hoy from the shop arount
on Madisos avenue came to tbs Val
Inesn housA late yesterday Afternoon
with a roast, steak and fowl ol
two. At the area gate he found a shah
billy clad Individual
'rll help you carry the orders In. "
voluntcere6 the shabby one.
The butcher boy II no Sherlock
Holmes In suet embryo He didn't no
tlce that the other had fnrtlvt eyes and
. tread like an alley cat II didn't oe.
cur to him that man with raggcd
coat and no collar on his soLcd collar
band would hardly be atts"heA To the
vsr IngeD establishment
Ragged One Vanished.
80 Ne tossed the servitoT out Of livery
part OF his burden, and the two Of them
went In together through the basement
door. They deposited uielr Joints ard
fowls or the table.
The butcher boy turned 10 thank his
kind assistant. but the raggsdy man
had vanished.
That WAS the last anybody cav OF
the shabby person for several hours,
II developed subsequently, that no had
slipped up two flights OF stairs and
tucked himself away in a closet on ths
second Aoor The Van lngen house
hold lived and moved and hAd its being
a. ..sual during the evening.
On ths second door slept Mr., and
Mira Van lngen and their daugnter. "A
private watonnian, Jonn U. Esplt, Whs
weighs 2Do pounds kept watcn DOWN
nta!fs. Some time alter midnight Mr.
Van Ingou was startled out OF a sound
sleep BY noise from the third fiOor.
40 slipped upstairs and i0oked around.
3ut found notning wrong lie went
About 8 o'clock the watchman was
surDrlsed as he sat In the main kali
way to see slender. undersizod figure
sinking down the stairs In sock-clad
feet The apparation had the hood OF
q sweater pulled over It's head for q
mask, and It's eyes peered at Espt
through two slits cut In the cloth. II
carried q heavy carpenters chlsel with
, broad, shsp blade,
Efpit Jumped Tor the shadow. The in.
trider swung al him with the chiseL
The blow eent Wild, and the pair grap-
,lcd on the stairs. Then Mr. Van Ingen
md two policemen arrived. They then
Ieanohec the thief aud frmd:
Some OF the Loot.
Gold watch and cnaln. silver hair
,rush, silver pin cushion, two pearl
leck chains, Turquoise necklace, gold
,l,ain,. sapphire and diamond brooch,
.merald necklace, turquoise bracelet,
,ilysr purse: fold belt, sdns solitaire rinS.
Ter stamp box. two coral buttons, four
ilamond stick pins, gold shirtwaist set,
horseshoe, string Of pearls a
watch, eight gold stick pins,
\ pearl coronet thirteen gold belt pins,
gold pencil, four silver buckles, silver
,hAin, silver bracelet. gold bracelet,
pair of scissors, silver snuffers. %
foreign coins. eight stamps, 50 cents In
bash and a handful Of MI, Van Ingen's
private stock cigars. That's all
At bhe station the burglar said he was
John Madison, twenty-seven years old
and homelcss. He used 10 live at Mills
Hotel No. l. At Headquarters theonNc-
ords show he had served three months
IN Buffalo for theft.
Madison was arraigned In Yorkyille
Police Court to-day He was held IN
II 800 bail for General Sessions lie hd-
lnitted, while awaiting arraignment, that
he had been known as John Smith and
John Mundon, and that he belonged
originally In ths Old Seventh Ward Of
az " snent % several hours going through
the house" he said. 81 took on my
SHOES and slinned from room to room.
Most Of the stun I picked up ,ana,rs on Ine
dressers, but there was one JeWelry
cabinet that had 10 be .pried open !
Could have got away all right but
got hungry and decided 10 slip down
10 the icebox, get a bite TO eat and
climb out a back window. The watch
man saw me, I'm cook by trade.
but rd been out OF work and was half
Etarv1ng and desperate. II was thinkln0
"ront the grub In the ice-box thai