The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-16
DIR. HOLBROOK 4 BURGLAR.
Best known Physician In Delaware County
Pa. Canfesscs to several HobberIes.

CoATKsvILLE, Pa, July 15.-Dr. Benjamin
Holbrook. one Of the best known physicians
in Delaware county. has been hel ID under
5000 bail on a charge Of burglary Hol-
brook is the son Of n former Philadelphia
physician now deceased
DIR. Holbrook is said to have confessed
fully to Detective Dague Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. whose headquarters are
at Parkersburg. the crimes charged against
him.
The robberies we're. of cours~. com
mitted at night. and always the doctor.
it is charged. drove to the scene in his
buggy aad carried the booty away behind
his spanking team Of sorrels. In the day
time he was a suave. we'll bred practitioner.
a specialist in eye. nose and throat dis
eases. the well hammered, sympathetic
DR.. Jekyll Of local society, and an especial
f~avorite with the families of good standing
in the town in which there we're marriage
able daughters.
One Of the things that he said TO De-
tective Dague in the course of his con-
fession was that he was engaged to marry
two Young women, one a very charming
Philadelphia. the other living in Coates
vile. He was not sure which of them he
would have made his wife il all had gone
" lIt NOtNbI HAS fth ~ WliltlNff
for about -four years He told Detective
Dague that the first thought Of Criminality
came to him when, desiring to Temarr, ',
he found himself confronted with imminent
bankruptcy.
A private hearing was given Holbrook
Friday night before Justice OF the Peace
Joseph johnson at Downingtown and he was
held in 81 900 bail for court. He was UNI
able To furnish bail and vas committed
to the prison in Westchester.
Many robberies are laid at his door.
In April last the station at Wyebrooke.
IN the Holland branch Of the Pennsylvania
railroad. was broken into and 4.o0O-mile
mileage books and some jewelry and silver
ware were stolen
A few nights afterward the station at
Glenmore. on the same line. was entered
in like name by the same PERSON. chiefly
that he might put the agents stamp on
the milea ge books, a thing he had neglected
at Wyebrooke. He o a silver watch
and a razor belonging to the agent and
several pairs Of new shoes which were
in the freight room. Next the station at
Buck Run. on the Pomeroy and Newark
branch. was robbed and a typewriting
machine was stolen.
Suspicion was first directed 10 DIR. Hol-
brook through his attempting TO make
Use NJ one OF the mileage books. but he
escaped detection. Meanwhile other burg
laries were committed within a radius Of
ten miles Of Co~atesville. Three of these, in
Coatesville, seem to have furnished the
clue TO the burglar. He took from the
electrical supply store Of Edward Thomas.
on Third avenue, a typewriting machine,
a revolver, some valuable electrical tools
and a stock Of dies, He then entered the
Office Of David Mariner, liveryman and
stole a gun and a stop watch.
Next he broke into the store Of Frank
Carson, at Second avenue and Diamond
street. There were also robberies at Pome-
roy, Timacula post Office, near Brinton's
Mills, and Mount Carmel schoolhouse. Al
the Cliff farmhouse, where Or. Holbrook
boarded and had a kind OF office. search
by the law officers revealed a large variety
OF booty