The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-10-02
PHYSICIAN A BURGLAR.
Dr.. Samuel E. BoIin Arrested
at New Rochelle.
A Newcomer In an Exclusive Section.
Woman Who Had Suffered From
Burglars Furnished the information
Which Led to Or. BoIin's Arrest.
How He Fooled the Police.

New Rochelle, N. Y, Oct. 1.-Early
yesterday morning DR.. Samuel E. Bo
Lin Of 16 Summit avenue, New Ro
chelle, was arrested on a charge oi
burglary by Detective Scott and Pc
llcemen Devenaugh and Chenowith
The arrest was made as the physician
stepped from trolley car from New
York. He was locked up in the New
Rochelle police station and later was
held in $4,000 bail by Justice Vanauk.
en-, before whom he was arraigned.
The arrest surprised the residents ol
the Highland Park district, where DR..
Bolin has recently bought an expens-
i've house. The doctor was supposed
to have come from the Bronx, where,
according to his story, he owns valu-
able property.
Mrs. Haug, who lives In Huguenot
street, furnished the information
which caused DR.. Bolin's arrest. Her
apartments were entered recently by
a burglar who got away with several
hundred dollars worth OF jewelry, clo-
thing and silverware. Mrs. Haug has
been worrying great deal about burg.
lars ever since and soon after O'clock
last Wednesday morning she heard
some one working away on the door
OF 4 hardware store at 4 Machouri
street, in the rear of her apartments,
She sent her husband after the po-
lice, who arrived in time to see the man
run from the store and jump over a
fence; They fired several shots af-
ter the supposed burglar, but he dis
appeared. Then they started to search
the neighborhood, thinking that the
man might have hidden near by. AS
they were entering the apartment
house in which Mrs. Haug lives the po-
lice were confronted by hatless and
coatless man, who demanded to know
what all the shooting was about and
who they were anyway. He seemed
very much interested when told that
burglar hunt was on and offered to
assist.
Suggesting that perhaps the police
might have been mistaken in suppos-
ing that their man had been the one
seen running and that the real thief
might be still hiding in the hardware
store, the stranger led the way into
the basement of the store building.
While the police were searching the
dark corners they lost sight of their
helper. They could find no one In
the apartment house who knew any
one corresponding to the man in shirt
sleeves, and they were very much puz-
zled to account for his strange ap-
pearance and disappearance until DR..
Bolin was arrested.
One of tNe policemen who took part
in last Wednesdays burglar hunt is
certain that the doctor is the kind
man who offered to help them find the
thief. TIL police believe that Bolin
ran into the apartment house after
leaving the hardware store in the
rear and then coolly presented him
self as an indignant householder who
had been disturbed by the shooting
Bolin denies that he was in the neigh
borhood of the hardware store at the
time. He insists that he is the vic
tim of mistaken identity.
Dr. Bolin told his captors that he
was connected with the staff of the Mt.
Sinai hospital, but the hospital au-
thorities deny that they know him.
No one in New Rochelle knows any
thing about the doctor except that he
moved there recently with his wife
and hung out his physicians sign. The
nolice are looking up his record.