Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-09

the return Of the family late in the
evening that the robbery was discov.
cred.
PORCH CLIMBER DOES WORK.
August 20 an agile porch climber
scaled q rainpipe and forced an en-.
trance to the house Of ]. Il. Thomp.
son, 1928 West 18th street, while the
family was away and stole, several
hundred dollars worth OF jewelry and
silverware. Packed In bag lying OH
the table In the dlning.rom lay silver.
ware and sealskin coats valued at
$4,000, which the intruder had aban.
doned In his haste to get away when
Mr.. Thompson returned from drive.
A TIP TO THE STATES ATTORNEY.
II States Attorney Wayman wants
to make good on the police, and we
hope he will. let him ascertain at
once how many benefit" tickets were
sold to resort keepers In the red light
district BY POLICEMEN. This form
Of blackmail beats anything In the
country all hollow and the worst OF
It Is that 1t Ia done by POLICEMEN
IN UNIFORM!
PUT sALOONKEEPER IN ICE BOX.
Not content with robbing their vic.
tim Of $74, two masked men who en-.
tered the saloon Of G. R0ssi, 20 Chat.
ham court, In the forenoon. put the
proprietor In an Ice box. locked the
door. and left the building.
After he had been held prisoner
there for almost an hour he attracted
the attention Of James Giblin, team.
ster who rooms above the saloon, by
pounding on the floor. Giblin went
down and opened the door. releasing
Rossi.
"Out of consideration for your gray
hairs we will allow you to have SOME
air." the robbers said a. they thrust
him In, opening small window near
the top OF the chest to prevent the
prisoner from suffocating.
No arrests were made.
TWO BIG BURGLARIES.
Safe blowers did two neat Jobs In
Chicago between Saturday night and
Sunday morning. August 28 or 20. get.
ting something over $1,000. and awak.
ening the admiration Of the police.
In neither case did the crooks leave
any clew and no arrests were made.
One job. q double.header, was exc.
cuted In the building at 179 Illinois
street, within a stones throw OF the
county jail. The building Is occupied
by A. r. l.. Mueseler Z Sons Company.
carriage makers. and +. r. HOllender
& Co., beer importers. The crooks en-.
tered the basement. which the Hollen.
der company uses as storeroom.
They got $75 from that concerns
safe and also sampled a keg OF i'm.
ported beer, All unawed by the near
ness of the Jail, they Skinned up the
elevator shaft, drawing up the keg
OF beer after them, and tackled the
Mueseler safe. The keg was found in
the morning empty and at hand, on
a desk, was the glass the men used.
They got nothing from our safe,"
A. II. Mueseler said, because they
failed to get into the inner compart-
ment and there was no money in that,
anyway"
In the other Job the crooks got
$1,000 In small change from the gro.
cery store of James Bredin. 617-23
West cad street. Some time during
the night they sawed of two iron bars
protecting rear window. Bredin
made a Sunday morning visit to his
store and had worked there for half
an hour before he learned that he had
been robbed. SO tidily had the Job
been done.
Then James Woodwork, a neighbor,
residing at GAIT Parnell avenue, see-
Ing the bars cut from the window.
asked him through the aperture II
anything had happened inside the
store during the night.
Bredin thereupon asked the cause of
his neighbors curiosity. and when In
formed OF the cutting of the iron bars
he went to the little balcony where