The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-19
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self to any clothing that caught his Eye
there. In all he got away with about
5000 worth of jewelry and clothing.
That he is one and the same thief
who entered the apartment of Mrs.
Eulalie Gardner, at Broad and Park
hurst streets. is the opinion of the
police. Last Thursday a young man
met Mrs. Gardner at the vestibule door
of her house. He was on his way out
and he a a bundle in each arm.
Apologizing for taking up so much
room he stepped aside to allow Mrs.
Gardner to pass. When she visited her
fiat a few minutes later she found she
had been robbed. Quickly h remem-
bered the meeting of the young maj
at the door who was smoking a cigar
cite. She detected the odor of cigar
cite smoke in her apartment and con
cluded that he was the thief who
entered her home.
Mrs. Gaw's experience was very
much the same. She was in her home
on the third floor of the three fiat
house at IL Emmett street yesterday
afternoon when she heard her front
door bell ring. She pressed the button
in her apartment which opens the
front door and was walking down the
first flight of stairs when she met a
well-dressed young man
us Mrs. Douglass home?' he asked,
with a winning smile.
Mrs. Cav told him that neither Mr.
nor Mrs. Douglass was home. He then
explained that he had been trying to
ring Mrs. Douglass's bell but had failed
to get an answer.
= "I am very sorry to have brought
you down here, madam" said the
young rogue, "but I really thought ]
was ringing the bell on the lower floor.
l will leave my card in the letter box
so that Mrs. Douglass will know who
1t was that called" Thanking Mrs.
Cav for her information he turned to
go out. Mrs. Cav went UP stairs and
heard the front door close. She also
heard the lock rattle.
The police believe that the young
man did not go out as might be sup
| posed, but remained in the hallway
until he could get an opportunity to
go up stairs and rob the Douglass
fiat. The man must have worked
quickly and quietly to get in, as there
were no marks, outside of a slight dent
in the side of the sash, evidently done
| Wnen the llltl was PlSSolh6 Ia oh ~
strument about a quarter Of an inch
wide between the sash n the door
to slip the lock back.
When MIS-. Douglass returned home
shortly after 6 o'clock she found that her
bedroom had been ransacked and her
tewelry stolen. Mr.. Douglass's wardrobe
was also shy several articles of clothing.
The list the police obtained from Mrs.
Douglass as take1. from her home is as
follows;
Ono gold brooch set with diamonds and
pearls, valued at SIS; one gold locket with
initials Wv. j. IT," one gold neck chain,
one tOpaz ring, one gold bracelet, one blue
cheviot coat and vest. one pair striped
trousers. one brown overcoat and a light
tan-colored suitcase.
A girl on the lower floor told the police
that she remembered a w~ell-dressed man
| entering the house about the same time as
Mrs. Cav opened the door for the glib
young man. She said that she did not see
him com out again while she sat in the
window.
In many ways the ''keyman,' as de-
scribed both by Mrs. Gardner and Mrs.
Cav, answers the description OF a suspect
picked up by Detective Sergeants Long
and Ryan. of headquarters, last Monday
afternoon. but who was turned loose, as
Cdptaln GhrfoH sdiu ne WIS ali flBnt'
Who the suspect was the police refuse to
say. They declare that he satisfied them
he was all right. and accounted for a dozen
or SO pawn tickets found in his possession.
He. too, was a smiling, well-spoken young
man. He was not suspicious looking,
though Long and Ryan. seeing him loiter-
ing near the fashionable residences. took
him in to talk matters over" The sus-
pect had many Of the characteristics Of a
college-bred man.
lie told the police he was in a little hard
luck. He had a sweetheart in New York,
] he said. whom he used to call upon ire