Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-14
second EDITION.
THREE HOUSES ROBBED.
Adjoining Dwellings Entered by
Burglars Early Yesterday
Morning.
ON VAN BUREN, STREET
The Houses are Between Delaware sHd
Glpin Avenues.
VERY LITTLE PLUMBER SECURED
Tbieves Carried off Between
$S and $40.
-,,r ttnuorc urpr n1Aiotnt,rn
ON VAN BUREN, STREET
Tbs Houses are Between Delaware sHd
Gilpin Avenues.
VERY LITTLE PLUMBER SECURED
hieves Carried off Between
So and $40.
uL Of The HOUSES WERE RANSAGKED

Pnrqlars made a wholesale raid in this
M, esry Yesterday morning, when three
sa,see on the east side OF Van Buren
.t-eet above Delaware avenue were en-
ters4 and ransacked, but the thieves got
~ with very little plunder. The
Ionses entered were those of Mrs. Ida @.
TdWards No. 1902 Van Buren street;
Iobn 4. Devine, 1904, and Mrs. Anna
n Ougey 1906
several rooms in two Of the houses we're
tsrned topsy-turvey, but the burglars
wore evidently hunting only for money
VA gof very little for their trouble. Each
II NE houses was entered the same way
,brauqh window on the rear second
storv porch. and the thieves evidently
went from one house to another by way
Of the porches. -,
u.s the last one entered and the thieves
we're probably frightened off as they left
q gas Jet burning, after being turned
almost against the wall and had it not
been discovered when it was the wood
work would probably have caught FIRE
Between So and $40 is all that was
stolen in the three houses, and although
tbere we're many articles of value in the
rooms ransacked nothing was taken but
money
II Is the general opinion that Mrs Ed
wards house was the first one entered.
IN each Of the houses the room which the
burglars reached first from the porch
is used as a sittingroom. In the Ed
wards house the door leading from that
room 10 the next one was locked. SO the
robbers did not get beyond that room.
There were some clothes hanging in the
room but not a thing was stolen.
In the other two houses entrance was
gained the same way In both houses q
thorough search was made by the burglars
Of the sitting room, which they entered
frst and all rooms downstairs, but none
OF the bed rooms was entered.
When the families went downstairs
Yesterday morning they found the rooms
4 in great disorder articles having been
pulled out OF the drawers and strewn all
4 over the floors. The back doors were
standing wide open and the parlor window
A al No. 1906 was also open. In the De-
i vine home all that was secured was some
N change from Mr.. Devine's overcoat.
There was silverware and other valuables
\ that the burglars could have carried of
N bad they so desired.
To Mrs Quigley's house about Sc in
money was taken, but nothing else was
& missing The family does not keep a
large sum OF money in the house at any
b time and no valuable jewelry. Mrs.
81 Quigley stated this morning that she was
aWake about o'clock and heard a noise,
70 which she paid no attention at the
time but learned when she went down
stairs that it was lid that was knocked
= Of q silver pitcher sitting on the sideboard
and It was this that probably frightened
the intnders off. She found the back
door open and the gas burning in the
kitchen and it would have taken but a
short time longer for a blaze to have
started. A small bank and a pocketbook
which Mrs Quigley priced very highly
and which were both at first missing, were
found later in the day in a neighbor'
yard. There had been some change il
both. but it was g one.
OTHER RoBBERIEs.
When Isaac Miller, who lives at No,
sll Monroe street, got up on Saturday
morning and went downstairs ht
found that somebody had entered hil
house. The first floor was in disorder
articles Of every description being pileC
On the floor and some Of them were
ned up in bundles. The front anC
back doors were standing open. 1t wal
evident that the burglars were scared
on, as nothing Of value was taken
During the night Mr.. Miller wa
4 aroused by the cat, which is supposed
% have been startled by the thieves
ana the noise made by the cat ma.
nave frightened the thieves away.
a thief entered the residence o
Ieoge W. Cooley, 9l5 Washington
street early on Saturday morning, ant
sole pair Of cuffs, containing goli
Gun buttons, the property of Mr.. Good
lsS ana handbag containing So, tn
4 property Of a visitor. Entrance wa
sleeted through a parlor window or
H3r door, as both were found open.
II is believed that the thieves wer
4p,'faeted to Wiln ington by the circus
Ieople living near where the abov
;eooeries took place are on guard an
mWlil not be healthy for the mis-
uleants if they return.