The San Francisco call., 1909-10-02
Spend Hour Beside Couple
Bound to Bed and Give Milk
TO Crying Baby
BURGLARS ARE BOLD IN
HOME OF DR.. HERRINGT0N
Garry on Conversation with VIC
Tins While Gathering Booty
in the Room
SERVANT GIRL SUSPECTED
OF COMPLETELY IN CRIME

SEkVANI UIkL SUSPEklEU
OF COMPLETELY IN CRIME
" HREE Burglars, who cursed and
threatened murder to accomplish
4 their purpose and then We'd in
tending their victims infant
child. perpetrated one OF the most as
founding robberies early yesterday
morning that the annals OF freak crime
record. They bound DR. and Mrs. vii
liam NJ. Harrington of "a Hartford
street to their bed likewise tied and
gagged the servant girl in her room.
robbed the dwelling OF jswelry and coin
totaIing s1,24s. and, while searching for
their booty. carried on calm. light
and at times almost frivolous CONVEX
sation with the husband and wife. espe-
cially the wife
Servant Girl Suspected
The servant girl Mrs. Ethel Price.
1 although tightly bound and gagged. is
suspected by the police of having been
in league with the three rufians. be-
cause of the fact that last summer she
was captured at ball given on AIca-
traz island with the ostrich plume from
another dancers hat concealed in her
stocking. The woman. whose husband.
concert hall singer is now in the
north. did not aequaint her EMPLOYERS
with the story Of her previous escapade
Though sweated twice by detectives
yesterday, she denied having anvthinr
TO do with the early morning ROBBERY.
Have Intimate knowledge
Harrington. who is a well known den
tist' member of the Olympic club ana
formerly head of the University of c,aIi-
fornia dental college. and his wife de-
scribe incidents of the robbery that
seem to indicate that the men had an
intimate knowledge of the places in
which the family Jewels and money
were kept. They rined only the portions
of the room that contained valuabIes.
The Harrington home. located as il il
on Hartford street. a small thorough
fare running south from Seventeenth
street between Castro and Noe. was
easy to enter and leave without dis
covery
Confronted by Masked Men
Il was awakened early in the morn
ing by the twisting and suppressed ex-
clamations of my husband" Mrs. Her
rington said yesterday. when / raised
my head and looked around there was
scene that reminded me of a niekelo-
deon, and was not sure at first
that 1 really was in one of those places.
Three men wearing masks We're in the
! room. Each had a dark lantern, and in
the dim light could plainly see thar
one held butcher knife-which / rec
ognized as stolen from our kitchen
over my head. while the other two
threatened my husband with a pistol
and piece of iron pipe. also taken
from our house.
MY husband was struggling with the
men. and 1 saw him reach under his
pillow for the revolver he kept there
Assumes Grim Air
At that the scene assumed a grim
air. for one of the men. with string
of foul curses. pointed his pistol at
the PROSTATE householder. and told him
to withdraw his hand or have his
brains blown out
Il let out an unearthly yeH,s Doctor
Harrington frankly stated yesterday
afternoon.
Whatever shock the sight was to the .
clubman his wife took things calmly
enough. the chief thought being OF her
youngest child. Lolita. the months
old baby sleeping in crib beside the
bed. and the two in the adjoining room.
Mercedes. aged s1s years. and Guins-
we're, aged ga.
Couple Bound to Bed
The thugs quickly bound the doctor
to the bed, his hands trussed up to the
top post. and his feet tied tightly to
the bottom. He lay there PROSTATE for
nearly an hour while the men leisurely
went about their business. urging them
TO hurry and get 1t over.
Mrs. Harrington was next bound as
her husband had been.
~Now keep quiet" the three had told
him. "and you won't be harmed" but
indeed the burglars invited converse
tion-
They first went to the bureau, opened
the small drawers at the side and took
out the jewel box and Mrs Herring
toms satchel- Out of her purse. on the
bureau. they secured some SIS and
keys to the jewel case and the bureau
drawers
Leaves the kids" Ring
THAT woman downstairs gave us
some trouble the elder of the men
stated anspls. ss he thrust the jewelrsH