The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27

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Discovery Waa a Yesterday that
ett-rt safe breakers had broken into the
residence " Tinted states senator John
y. dryden At iO7D Broad street. Newark.
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work u wires attached % q burglar alarm
forced their way from the slb-haSsment
to the upper part of the hou@e, opensd a
large safe by chi~ellinR out a triangular
chunk from the bottom, and riAed II
According to the estimate of damage
made yesterday by Mrs Anthony ?. Kuser.
Senator Dryden's daughter, the burglars
had all their trouble and wasted all their
skill without return. They were evidently
after money or jevelry. or both, and Mrs.
Knser stated that they secured neither,
a. her father never kept either money or
valuables in that safe.
II IL not exactly known just when the
robbery was perpetrated, except that 1t
occurred since n week ago yesterday. Miss
Gertrude Thomas, Senator Dryden's next
door neighbor, told the police that her
watch dog displayed great agitation Thurs
day night, but hat an invest igation by
servants failed TO disclose any reason for
its restlessness. The police are inclined
to believe that the dog was disturbed by
the proximity Of the safe breakers.
The house has not been occupied by the
Dryden family for several weeks. The
Senator n Mrs. Dryden have been at
Washington and the younger members Of
the family have been at their summer home
at Bernardsville. The servants have been
with one or the other portion OF the family,
so that the town house has been entirely
vacant. 1t was deemed sufficient precau-
ton to have the house connected with the
local burglar alarm system, but IL developed
that the best the bur glar alarm people
could do vas TO make a subsequent dis
covery of the fact OF the burglary. En-
ployees of the company went TO the resi-
dence yesterday morning to make the reg
ular weekly inspection Of the alarm system.
They were amazed to find the system had
been ~cleverly disconnected and many Of
the wires cut.
Detective Sergeants Long and Ryan Of
Police Headquarters were compelled to
admire the burglars for the manner in which
they performed their work.
The Indications were that probably more
than two men did the job. 1t was also ap-
parent that they knew the house was wired
for burglars and also where they should
look to find or avoid those wires. They got
into the house by prying up an iron grating
in the rear which enabled them to get to q
door leading from the areaway under the
grating in TO the subbasement. They might
have forced open another door a few feet
distant that was not protected by the graf
ing, but they might also in that event have
run afoul Of the burglar alarm system.
The burglars also avoided a door lead
ing from the basement which was carefully
wired, and with a furnace bar pried away
part of the stairway so that they could
crawl through. Before reaching the main
floor of the house the intruders had to get
past still another door. also wired. They
went at this obstruction like the good me-
CHI anics thew were. Removing a moulding
from one Of the panels Of he door, they
laid bare the wires Of the burglar alarm
system. which they quickly put out Of
in the least. They hen removed the panel
and cTept through to the rear OF the main
hallway.
BY this time the burglars had the whole
house to themselvee' with all the time they
wanted in which to perform their work.
They were there apparently for the single
purpose Of getting at the inside of the
Senator's safe, which stood in a corner
under the stairway Of the mezzanine hall
way, on the second floor. In the rooms
but the visitors did not disturb them. They
worked only on the safe. This was large
for a household 8 f.. weighing about 800
pounds and standing about five feet high.
The burglars first tried to break In at
the combination look. but failed. Then
they went into the bedroom at the rear Of
the econd floor, which is used by Mrs.
Kuser when she stays at her parents
home, and brought out two mattresses.
These they placed on the floor Of the hall
way, one on top Of the other. Next they
tipped over the safe 80 that It lay on it's
side on the mattresses. Their next nov
was to puncture the bottom Of the safe
and from its appearance they succeeded
in getting some sort Of instrument through,
making a hole from which they chiseled
q triangular opening, about twelve inches
on each side. When this was completed
the contents OF the safe were at the mercy
Of the craoksmen.
The work was lone clearly. They used
no explosives and did not mark or scratch
the inlaid flooring of the hall or even dirty
the rugs When they left they carried
away their tools, leaving behind only the
crate bar with whic h they had broken
through the lower stairway.
Mrs. Kuser was the first OF the family to
receive notification and she went hastily |
to Newark from B~ernardsville. Afterward
she was joined by her brother, Forest F.
d yden. They examined the contents of
the safe which lay scattered on the floor,
consisting mostly Of papers, evident y
considered by the burglars as being value
lees to them. Then they assured the de-
~tectives that 80 far as they could recall the
contents of the safe at the time the family
was last home nothing of value had been
carried of. The Senator. they said, never
made a habit OF keeping large sums of
money in that safe and the family jewels
we're also deposited elsewhere.
1t will be impossible to determine II any
valuable private papers have been stolen
until Senator Dryden examines the docu-
ments left behind by the burglars. Word
of the affair was t~elegraphed To him at
Washington.
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