The sun., 1906-02-08
BURGLAR AT THE WORMSERS'
DiI GHTER BELIEVED Ar FIRST
THAT IT WAS 4 WOI SE.
Intruder Paid No Attention to Her Scream
hut Leis,lrcly Ransacked bureau Car
ried Away Much Valuable Jewplry
shots Ar Ollse Guests OF Ma aJestic Hotel

Miss Carrie Wormser, daughter of Leopold
Wormser a retired banker, residing at O
West Seventy-first street, was awakened
by noise in her room at $50 o'clock yester-
day morning. She thought the noise was
made 10y a mouse. she said afterward, and
screamed. Then she got wide awake and
the drcwsy thought Of an obtrusive mouse
was transformed into a realization that she
was having an experience with burglar.
Miss Wormser then pulled the bedclothes
over her head and kept quiet. Her scream
probably hadn't been as loud as she thought,
for the burglar paid no attention to it, APP
parently He worked lesurely and ran
sacked the room, extracting from bureau
drawers jewel cases containing these ralNi-
ables: A diamond pin, a gold heart shaped
locket set with diamonds gold bow knot
set with diamonds, two plain gold heart
shaped lockets. chain of coral and gold,
a chain Of turquoises and gold, purse
woven with gold, a chatelaine bag of silver
weave, three gold mounted hand mirrors
and $40 monogram gold piece.
After the burglar had left her room.
Miss Wormser called for help. Sidney A.
Wornser, her brother, who slept not far
from her on the third floor, heard her cries.
as did her father on the floor below and the
servants on the floor above.
Leopold Wormser. the father, jumped out
of bed grabbed revolver and ran to his
daughters room at the same time that his
son and the servants were drawn there.
Then they went in search of the burglar
with Mr.. Wormser i'll the lead. All the
lights turned on showed no trace of him
on the second floor On the first floor they
found raised a sash of big bay window ,
not far from the porch.
Mr.. Wormser stood in the window and
fred four shots from his revolver. The
shots aroused many Of the people in tho
Hotel Majestic across the street and the
Barnard apartments adjoining. They also
attracted Policeman O'Connor from Sixty
eighth street and Central Park West.
man and three patrolmen and the five were
soon on he scene Of the burglary.
Outside the entered window they found
fragments of glass case that had con-
taned bronze and brass ANTIQUES. APP
parently it had been dropped by the burglar
in his flight A dozen more patroinen from
the West SiXty-eighth street station sum
moned by telephone call from Miss Worm
ser. reinforced the five. BY the empty
Jewel cases found near the wall at Seventy
first street they traced the burglars escape
to Central Park Neither they nor other
policemen working on the case yesterday
got other information regarding the cul-
In the parlor after all the excitement
uueted down there was found small
electric lamp. 1t lay near the raised win
dow. From it and other circumstances
the police formed the theory that the burg
larry was the work of an adept second story
man. They had detectives going around
the underworld yesterday with the idea
of finding out who of the most adept pro-
fessonal burglars were in the city. No re-
suits of the Investigations were disclosed.