The sun., 1908-07-09
BUpGLARSCUHTHROUGH WALL
I,p EXTGACr GOLD PENS FROM
BEEKM4N STREET SAFE.

Down Pretty E1ne-JTheiP Booty Valued
AT $3.50 by the Losers--Premises Icn.
tered Three Times In the Last Months.
Thin burglars-probably two OF them
ricked their way through q brick and o
s,oodeu wall at lO2 Beekmnn street early
,osterelay morning and relieved the safes
q, the Diamond Point Pen Company OF
cod bullion and manufactured pens valued
az s5p according TO the report given to the
nolce by the manufacturers. That the
burglars wsre thin was exemplifed bost by
,ba size OF the holes they made In the walls
lint lay between them and their swag.
policeman O'Connell OF the Oak street
stotion house, whose beat lies along Beck
man street. went down the line some time
ohout . O'Clock in the morning, rattling all
the doors. He tried tho door at 100 Beck
man street one removed from the iron
sbut,ered entrance to the stairway leading
unto ;hc fourth and fifth floors at 1902, which
are occupied by the fountain pen company.
1t was locked.
About 3:9O o'clock O'Connell, who is new
on the Job and conscientious, tried the door
at 100 again. 1t yielded to his pushing, and
as the door opened key fell from tho look
inside. O'Connell looked at the key and
found that it was one Of the neat folding
variety which is used by our best burglars.
OConnel did what every conscientious
policeman does. He pulled out his gun
and went up 10 investigate. On the fourth
floor Of the building, only the two lower
floors Of which are occupied, he found a
pile of bricks and mortar on the floor.
Making a light, the policeman. stopped and
discovered a rough hole in the brick wall to
the left of the hallway about large enough
TO admit a thin man. The hole was about
two feet above the floor and gave onto
stairway next door.
The new policeman wormed his body
through the hole in the wall, holding his
revolver ready. He found himself on the
fourth floor of the building next door and
directly in front of another neat hole out
in a wooden partition that formed one side
Of thenarrow hall OConnell went through
this second hole as gingery as he had
through the first. 1t led him into the
machine shop OF the Diamond Point Pen
Company.
With his gun at cock he worked his way
through the aisles of machines until he
came to the rear of the room. There against
a thin wooden wall he found two safes,
their doors standing open. Both of these
safes were Of an old fashioned model.
Neither had been blown open. On the
larger neat little piece of drilling had
teen done. but the smaller safe had evi-
deutly been opened after some expert
mental iccleying of the combination, for
il was unscarred by tools.
Just to the left Of the centre Of the large
safes combination lock and in the spot
where the pointer directs when the dials
are moved about to effect the combination
was a hole large enough to permit Of the
Insertion OF a sensitive little finger. In
tho priTnar of ueyUInp, II ia urrtttap hat
if you go up against an old style safe you
are not to pour In soup and make a grand
smash which will bring the bulls down on
you; just bore a hole. put your finger in
and study the falling Of the tumblers It's
easier and safer for the getaway.
While the policeman was looking over
the ground he was greatly bothered by q
strong. smell Of ammonia. This might
have been part OF a scheme to knock out O
watchman II there had been any wstchman.
But as it was it only happened that the
burglars in their carelessness had tipped
fingered long enough to justify romance
in the early editions Of the afternoon papers.
O'Connell found considerable confusion
about the safes Cases Of fountain pens
were scattered over the floor near by; books,
papers and Office documents had evidently
dropped haphazard. As acting Captain
Bull Mccarthy Of the Oak street station
said when he saw the job. this was no indi-
cation OF an expert yeggmans work. A
master yegg puts everything back that
he doesn't want.
floor and found that the burglars had pre-
ccded hum there. wooden panel had
bfen cut out of the door that gave entrance
10 the rubber turning room, and desk.
which belonged to Miss Loretta Driscoll.
had heen opened and rifled. More fountain
W. ~ H. A.
base Of Miss Driscoll's desk.
havlng seen all these things and not q
trace OF the burglars O'Connell gathered
up, several steel drills he found in front OF
a larger safe. a nest Of hack saws anda
round headed hammer, and went hack to
When Bull Mccarthy and some Of his de-
tectiyes got around later they saw how
simple 1t had been for the burglars. A
towel found outside OF the hole in the brick
wall IN the hall at 100 showed that the crafts
men had muff'ed the strokes of their ham
few bricks. These once out, the rest could
nave been pulled out easily and noiselessly.
AS Tor the work on the wooden partition
ana tne doorway on the fifth floor. the
noise noise OF passing trains on the elevated
Just outside the windows made that COM
paratively safe job.
n. b; Levy. president and general man.
ager OF the company, went over the CON-
tents Of the two safes and the desk later
N the day with an insurance adjuster and
announced that the entire loss. covered
by insurance, would not exceed 1000.
Ihe police got from him 1850 as the exact
hgure Mr.. Levy said that $4o0 of the
loss was represented by gold bullion used in
making the pens and the remainder covered
me stolen manufactured pens and sample
pens used as models by the workmen.
There was no cash in either safe. The
cash safe had been removed to the COM
pany's salesrooms at SO and SO Fulton street
after fire visited the manufacturing rooms
iast January. During the ten years that
lne pen company has occupied the premises
on Beekman street its workroorns have
been entered by burglars five times, thrice
IN IN the last seven months The detectives
lee certain that the man who had COM
puted just where to drive the hole through
me brick wall between the two buildings
and thus gain entrance to the rooms where
the safes were kept must have been
familiar with the premises They said
u would have taken some very pretty
observation for one unfamiliar with the
lay OF the land to locata that hnla whara