New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-09
KILLED In LAND OF NOD
DIES WHILE THEY SLEEP.
Violent Passing of a Burglar Goes
Unnoticed IN HeRs Kitchen.

Sleep is dear TO the heart Of HeiIs Kitchen and
though the graveyard yawns from sundo~h 10 us
temperance and flying dishes greet the "ltching
hour OF midnight the tired dwellers DO not leave
their beds. once they court them, at any ordinary
clash Of steel or report Of pistol shot
A burglar burdened with his loot. running across
the Tin roofs OF these seepers believing policemen
were in pursuit tried to jump across an areaway
between the houses at Nos. 4s and As Amsterdam
avenue 2:45 a. m. yesterday. He failed, and fell
I've stories his death.
The mans body struck window and shattered
the glass as he passed the fourth floor. hut no
one investigated the cause OF the strange crash,
although a large family occupied the apartment.
Nor did any one look fcr or find the body until
daylight although residents all sides were tenn
porarily reused from slumber by the smash and
thud succeeding each other the cement floor OF
the court Policemen after two men who
escaped.
I'VE thought how it some Of the neigh
bors throWin' dishes" explained the woman who
lived with the large family on the fourth floor
back whose window was broken at that early
hour
we heard the noises" said her husband but
this is a bad neighborhood. It's no sleep az all
a man would get il he followed all them kind Of
olews The thud different. hut I said il was a
wet rag likely. and thought more about it,
The burglar later identified at the Morgue
by his mother as Patrick Healy, twenty-four years
old. OF No So6 West 6Sth street He carried
s polioeman's nightstick and long bladed pen
knife was open in the breast pocket Of his coat.
on the ground where he was picked up lay a box
OF matches that had burned. evidently igniting
he hit the ground.
f1ealy broke into the fourth floor OF No. "a Am
sterdam avenue, at the corner Of 62d street. and
entered the Of Michael Stallo. Italian.
who runs fruit stand at that point. Stallo. like
his neighbars sleeps not only soundly hut too well,
according 10 his account
"Al day I standa by da peanut. da banan until
q be a-one-a-two O'Clock" he said, yesterday. Il
fan on da bed. sleep like-a =da-dead. I theenk-
ada Irish he trow water my face 10 max me
sleep. He breaka da lock. he TAXA da hat, da
shoes da suit da nice-a da box. da bandan-silk-
yellow. red. inei"
Beside the body OF Healy found two suits
OF clothes, three umbrellas. three silk handker-
chiefs and some trinkets. These things were all
later identified by Stallo. who also said the blue
serge suit that the had his.
negro who had listened systematically 20 the
rather intense recital of the Italians wrongs. vol
unteered correction and opinion generally.
"Ah done heerd you make de remark dat de
thieVer must mos likely had strewn youah face
VIII wata' tew prevail you tew keep sleepin."
he said looking the head Of the Italian. and
putting thoughtfully at his pipe. Dan don't strikes
reasonable. An specs dat de truf am dat he
glib 20 face chloroform. Wata er dam pore
sleep provoker"
When told that the thiefs mother had identified
him, Stallo, the Italian, looked panied
i wish he geta da suit an beat IT, too" he said
"8ut always dem feas dey get tiff not to-day dey
get 81 tomorrow den, queek.