New-York tribune., 1908-01-29
BURGLARS USE DRUGS
ErDert zcith Anesthetics Figures an
Unusual Number of Robber7es.

An unusual number of burglaries was reported
to the police yesterday and the detective Iofce =
securing the city for the members OF What uleS
srppose is an organized band of burglars VINO ior
the most part have been operating with ~ ~
of chloroforn-
John De Marco. of No 303 East I'D street. re-
ported TO the police of the East I'D street s'dtoi
that burglars had used chloroform on MS ehtite
family early Yesterday and had ransacked ms
apartment Jewery and cash to the amount u
s700 were stolen and Mr.. and Mrs De Marco anu
their four children were made III by the orus'
Henry w Titus who lives In the same house
reported that his sister-in-aw, MISS Nelie Na.eA'
say a stockiIy built enter her room with ~ Wnh'
appeared to be a handkerchief in his hand THUS
said he was aroused in time to see two men run
from the front stoop of the house and two more
escape over rear fences. He lost SIS in cash. out
the burglars left behind them two ouhdies vi
clothing which they had packed up
According to Mr.. Titus. the police tod MIN 1la'
Twenty-Five similar cases reported within the
last two months from the same district which -
the section of the East Side known as Ch@iii0
Murphy's District, the "Gashouse uiNi7ioii
Captain McDernott OF the East 22d street station
mt his detectives on the trail of the burglars i'm
roediateIy and although none Of the victims could
describe the burglars with any degree OF clear-
ness it is believed that at least two OF the Daho
will be captured to-day.
The detectives say that some one VINO is an e4-
pert on the administering of anaesthetics Is WORK
ing with the gang The bungling work OF the aver
age burglar who uses chloroforrn, they say usually
results in an Illness of several weeks or death'
while those who drugged IN the recent roO-
berries have recovered in day.
Down on the Bowery, in the early morning houiS
Detectives Connors and Short, of the East 'Ih
street station, three -nen carrying suspicious
looking bundles The entered tenement
house in I'd street near Second avenue. and the
detectives slipped IN behind them Five men ana
q woman were arrested when the detectives founo
the room filed with parcels and valuaoles wnicn
had apparently been stolen
Some of the goods identified by nernoer
of the firm of Littenberg & Cohen whose place at
No 10 East sth street robbed on Monday The
prisoners said they William and Bessie Stein,
of No 15 Stanton street; Charles Lubino, OF No.
252 Chrystie street; Michael Grucci, of No Stan
ton street; Michael Oddo, of No. 261 West 144th
street and Frank Alfredo, OF No. AS West 18th
street MAGISTRATE Droege held each of the pris-
oners in So 600 bail for examination to-day.
Patrolman Seller, of the Union Market station,
was attracted by a wonlanS screams coming from
No 331 East Sth street. early yesterday, and when
he rushed into the place he was informed by Mrs
Lena Harper that a burglar who had just escaped
through the front door had tried to enter her
apartrnent and had knocked her down Seller ran
to the street in time 10 a young fellow dis
appear around the corner of First averlue. He
gave chase and caught the fugitive in a hallway
q few blocks away and arrested him At the sta
ton house he said he John P. Glade. of No.
2S7 Avenue C.
Inspector McCaferty, of the detective bureau.
said he did not believe that there had been any
such number of 'ctloroform burglaries' in the city
as had been reported