The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-23
BURGLARS ON FIFTH AVENUE
ENTER SIX HOUSES AND SLIP BY
TEE POLICE INTO THE PARK.
A Game Of Hide ard Seek In Homes Of y.
N. WOOIwOrthL Mrs. ID, y. Turner, Col.
Hilton. BenJa n Thaw G. o. Thatcher
and Mrs. Sidney Smith-Little Loot.

and Mrs. Sidney Smith-Little Loot.
The homes Of r. NJ. Woolworth. Mrs.
David r. Turner, Col. Albert B. Hilton and
BENJAMIN Thaw on Fifth avenue, and OF
George o. Thatcher and Mrs. Sidney Smith
around the corner In East Eighty-sixth
street. we're entered in the course Of a pro-
g~ressive burglary game which began at
1916 o'clock on Saturday morning. At
S - o'clock the two rope ladder rovers VINO
are supposed to have done five successive
| Jobs vaulted a Central Park wall AMI got
away from a Waterman and from a special
squad Of thief hunting detectives with
which the district has been honeycombed
Cor a month.
Mr.. Woolworth was out Of town on Friday
night and his daughter Jessie and the SER
wants we're in the house al 900 Fifth avenue
alone. At las O'Clock Miss Woodwork
awoke and heard Margaret Burns, the
cook, yelling for the police, the hremen
end the saints in her room below Miss
Woolworth's, one flight down. The cook,
il seemed, had been awakened by a noise
and had turned on the light TO find a mans
two legs advancing through her window.
Al her alarm the legs retreated, and when
she got to the window a man was running
away through the back area trailing a rope
with a hook on the end.
Miss Woolworth ~telephoned the police,
and presently Sergt Hawkins and a squad
from the East Eighty-eighth street station
appeared, tagged every minute or so by
members Of the honeycomb squad. The
| policemen found that the burglar had left
A soiled glove on the window ell. He had
jimmied a window open. They had tracked
him az far as q picket fence on the Wool
worth reserve when a courier stumbled
along with the news that there was a burglar
at Mrs. David r. Turner's house. at i045
Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Turner lives with her daughter,
Mrs. r. S. Dana. The burglar had got as
far as forcing open the window Of the
buffers pantry when something scared
him on.
He jumped to the house at iO47 Fifth
avenue Of Col. Albert B. Hilton, who was
military secretary TO Cows. Hill and Flower.
In a servants room, entered again through
a rear window, he picked up s. and was
proceeding when the Colonel woke up and
shouted.
The burglar backed out and climbed
through q window into Benjamin Thaw's
house at l0Is Fifth avenue, next door TO
Col Hilton's. He laid a course through
the servants quarters 70 the dining room
and slung d table cloth around a parcel Of
Thaw silver. A bulldog barked in the yard
at this juncture and once more the burglar,
or b~urglars-there we're traces OF " at
this house-scurried away without the
! silver.
The next stop was at George o. Thstcher's
at East Eighty-siIth street. In the dining
room some gold and silver spoons were
gathered up, heavier articles that wouldn't
ht a pocket being left. In George Thatcher's
room, where Mr.. Thatcher lay In bed asleep,
the visitor cleaned a chiffonier Of handy
loot like cuff buttons, stick pins and a watch.
He also ransacked the room Of Hamilton
Thatcher, George Thatcher's brother, who
was away, but got nothing.
Meanwhile the burglars comrade had
opened the front door for a getaway, fixing
the lock so that it couldn't move and
piling two chairs against the door, all in
easy sight from anybody in the street.
And that's the ay they went out.
At 4 East Eighty-sixth street, the home
Of Mrs. Sidney Smith, a skyliGht was
locsened, but dawn was coming on and
possibly the rowing gentlemen were sleepy;
they went no further. On the Fifth avenue
corner piesenriy a watohinan Geheid t-O
men who ran at his approach and disap-
peared over the wall into the park.
On Friday Corporation Counsel Pendle-
ton lost a pair Of Revolutionary pistols
from his house at 7 East Eighty-sixth street
The police, who got to most Of the houses
entered on Saturday morning just after the
horse was stolen, figure that the same
~somebodies were up TO all Of it,