The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
NOT DYNAMITE BUT JEWELR Y.
SVENSEN FOUND THE BOX LYING
on THE SNOW.
Serst. Hcaiy Rugged a Device with Nails,
Tack and String II Capt. Murphy
Pulled-NO ENploslon-Box Contained
SS 900 Worth oG watches. Rings, &c.

IS 900 Worth Of Watches. Kings, &c.
Harry Svensen, a Swedish American Of
Hoboken, who was visiting his sister, Mrs.
A. Norwood of $50 Fiftieth street, Brooklyn,
was standing at the northeast corner Of
Forty-eighth street and Third avenue, in
that borough, at about $50 o'clock last
night. looking at u throng Of boys o~oasting
on the incline there and waiting for a car,
when he saw IL cigar box in the middle
of the street. 1t was revealed plainly by
the bright arc light on the corner. He
picked it up and noticed that 1t had a
sliding lid.
He wondered what was in it, out found
that the sliding lid was HARD TO open. His
imagination got to work soon and he stopped
tugging at the lid. He remembered hav-
ing seen accounts in the newspapers Of
Internal machines in cigar boxes with the
same sort OF lid, and he nervously set the
box down and waited for a cop to come
along. Policeman Edward J.. Connolly
was the coPi and he also recalled that cigar
boxes with sliding lids frequently contain
other things than cigars. He handled
the box in gingerly fashion and then laid
1t on the snow. A boy with u sled was
speeding down tho hill. Connolly re-
Questioned the sled and placed the cigar
box on it as il it were a new born babe.
I'll little boy who owned the sled pro-
tested feebly against the vetoing OF his
fun until he learned that he might go along
and see what a cigar box Internal machine
looked like. Police traditions vigorously
require that all suspicious boxes shall be
soaked in water before being opened. At
least that was the case before Bingham
came in. Capt. Patrick Murphy Of the
Fourth avenue station does not believe in
traditions, even on st. Patriok's Day.
He decided to explode the Internal ma
chine rather thar find that it was merely
black sand and gun cotton with the usual
clock work accompaniment. He and Sergt.
Healy had a consultation in which Svenssn
and the small boy took thinking parts.
The cigar box was borne into the back
yard. The sergeant and the captain each
held a corner. Svensen, the boy and the
cop drew up in the rear, zach shielding his
face with crooked arm. The sergeant
will a lead pencil carefully outlined the
length and width Of the box on a board
placed in the rear of the yard. Outside
the pencilled rectangle he drove four nails.
He fitted the box between the nails, then
he put a big tack in the sliding top Of the
box and attached a stout string to the tack.
The little boy was much disappointed when
he was forced to retire behind the back
door of the station with the captain, the
sergeant, the cop inc Svensen.
The door was put on a crack and the
captain pulled the string and waited for
the explosion. The little boy put his fingers
in his ears. The lid gave way and presently
the captain was drawing it into the back
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the Romer.
1t was considered a fine bit Of strategy
at this point to go out and take a look at
the internal machine. The captain laughed,
the sergeant did likewise, the conservative
cop smiled and the Swede looked as if he
thought he might be held responsible.
The small boy looked sheepish.
The box was a tremendous surprise, 1t
made the captain gasp. 1t wa filed with
watches, diamond rings and other jewelry.
The captain took the box into the station,
emptied it on the desk and made an in
ventory of it's contents. Svensen seemed
to think that he might be under suspicion,
and offered to let the police search him.
Capt. Murphy said 1t was unnecessary, and
also remarked that If there were no claimant
for the iewelry Svensen would be entitled
to It. Svensen gave his address in Hoboken
as 21s Park avenue and went home. The
cigar box was marked Havana seconds"
The captain said he thought the jewelry
was worth about 5000.
A man who gave the name OF Charles
Zimmerman, and who said that he had
moved last night into AIS Third avenue,
Brooklyn. from his former home in Chris
TOPPER street, this borough. laid claim to
the jewelry late last night. He was unable
to describe it accurately, and was told
that II he appeared before the property
clerk in Brooklyn tomorrow, and proved
ownership, the STUFF would be turned over
10 him. He said that the box dropped
out of one of the mo wing vans.