The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
GIRL TELLS OF TWO BURGLARS
or WHOM ONE HELD TWO BIG
PISTOLS TO HER HEAD
And Eoth Wore Brown Md Gloves -Jeweiry
and a sable Nun Missing From Her
Mothers Fla and The whole Piace
Turned TOpsyturyy Police Puzzled.

Turned TOpSyturNy --POhcc Pux1leo.
Mrs. Josie Fensterstock, who lives on
the first floor al 10 Fast 10th street, was
sewing in her sitting room about 4 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon when the door was
pushed 'oren and Beatrice Alexander, a
fourteen year-old girl who ives with her
mother, a brother and three sisters on the
third floor, burst in. fell into a chair and
promptly tainted.
Mrs. Fensterstock jumped up and tried
dashes Of cold water. The girl zane to.
Whats the natter" cried Mrs. Fenster-
stock.
Burglars Whispered the girl. Bur
glars with pistols as big "a annon l
thought they we're going to kill me"
Without much urging the girl then told
her story. Her mother is a shopping
commissioner and out all the afternoon.
as is the brother. an engineer on the Penn
s~ylvania excavation work at Thirty-third
street and Seventh avenue. The three
other children go to school in nth street.
1t is Beatrice's duty 10 come home at 8
o'clock, get the key TO her mothers fiat
from Mrs. Charles Sales. across the hall.
60 in and begin the preparations for her
mothers homecoming. The two other chill
dren usually play in the street. Beatrice
said:
Il got the key from Mrs. Sales about 8
this afternoon and opened our door into
the little hall. | could see into the bed
room through the open door leading TO 1t
and l wondered at seeing hea ped up on the
foot Of the bed my mothers fur coat. a
couple Of overcoats and a sable muff. II
looked so strange TO me that | thought
there must be burglars in the fat, and l was
just going TO urn around and 60 out. But
a man stepped out from behind the bed
room door and pointing two revolvers as
big as cannons at my head said; Come
in quick and close that door behind you
| was so frightened l had to. He then
pushed me dow in a corner, and still point
ing the pistols at me, said: II you make
a sound III shoot you like a rat He stood
there with the pistols. while the other man.
i could hear, went around from bureau to
bureau putting everything upside down.
%hen he got through they did uP,ths things
big as a half bushel basket.
the man with the revolvers told me to
walk ahead Of him dow the stairs. Put
ting one revolver in his coat pocket he
showed me he could shoot me through the
cloth. If o say a word to anybody or
try to stop or run away. III shoot you in a
minute Then he picked up his bundle in
the other nan and we all went downstairs.
They left me standing on the stoop at the
street. L can shoot you as long as l can
see you, said the mar with the pistol, and
will if you make q sound until we get
around the corner They walked oward
the corner and disappeared up Fifth avenue.
They we're both big men and had on black
overcoats, derby hats and brown kid gloves.
That's all | can remember about heir looks,
was so frightened.
The girl then tainted again. Mrs. Fem
sterstock used more cold water. Then
going up stairs she Dun the key in the
lock of the Alexander fiat and assured
herself that the apartment was in topsy-
turvy condition, h hurried down stairs
and had the %janitOr call up Police Head
quarters.
Detectives Maloney and Kleinfeldt came
to the fiat. Mrs. Alexander had reached
home by the time they got there, about 9
O'Clock, and said that a number Of articles
hunting case watch, two gold rings. a
sapphire stick pin, a sapphire brooch, a
sable muff and other articles OF wearing
apparel, the whole valued at about $500.
The detectives did not apparently put
much faith in the story of the girl. Mrs.
Alexander and her son, Edward, were much
incensed AZ this and said that they had al
idea who the thieves were, but that the
:police refused to do anything toward
running them down.
Mrs. Alexander said that only ore or
two of the articles belonged to customers
who had given her shopping commits
sions, and that practic ally the whole loss
fell on her. The daughter WAS slightly
hysterical all the afternoon. Edward Alex
ander thought that the thieves might have
been men connected with a poolroom that
formerly hourished in the neighborhood.
The detectives said they didn't see how
burglars had got into the fiat, "a there
were no marks on the door to indicate
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people in the apartment house had seen
ANYTHING of the two men with the bundles,
o far as could he learned.