The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-08

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to the edge OF the new we'll A gust
OF wind caught the flame and drove II
across the shaft top, lighting clearly
The bottom OF the deep hole.
body IL Found.
You could see the inside of the
plank walls that buttressed tho tun-
rel as clearly as if an arc-light had
been swung into the hole; the sweat
standing out OH the foreheads OF the
d.gsers, the splnters of chopped
boards and the shovel marks OH the
floor OF the pit. One of the laborers
jabbed with his shovel He saw some
thing else and Inotioned for Reville TO
lean over the edge of the shaft. The
boss took sharp look and hurried
away to telephone the coroner.
The shovel had uncopereds Finkel-
STEMS right foot. clad in rubber
boot 1t could be seen then lust what po-
sition the man had been In when nc
died His body lay in the direction
Ludlow Street takes. north and south.
with his head to the south Later,
when the body was fully uncovered. 1T
was apparent that he had tried to
snuirm around and fight his way
through the sand that blocked the
night before the body was taken from
the cave-in.
Fainter Makes Disclosures.
The police might never have known
OF the tunnel and one of the most
daring burslaries of recent years
might have been accomplished IL 1t had
not been for Isaac FInSc!stein. He
was painter, who lived With his
wife and childre nand his brotter-in-
law. Isador Garvus, ut 5a Ludlow
Street. which is right next door to
the building with the hole In its cell
lar floor. Finkclstein was accustomed
to so down into that cellar every
evening to gather wood for the family
stove. The wood was often hard to
get and the gathering took n long
time. When he went down there
"Wednesday evening and did not come
back nobody was worried. But yes
terday Mrs. Tinkelstein and Garvus
began TO wonder where the wood
Satherer could be.
Garvus decided to investigate, and
went down into the cellar. He looked
around and suddenly noticed the hole.
lie went down into the blackness to
look for his brother-in law, passing
along in fine shape unit! he rcached.l
the heap of dirt formed by the cave
iii. Beyond it he heard groans, he
said, and. reaching over the pile of
earth. he discovered the emptiness of
more tunnel.
Ciarvus backed out of the hole as
fast as he could and made for the ED
ridge Street Police Station, where he
told all that had happened TO him.
lie said that somebody must have dug
that tunnel and that Finkelsteln must
have noticed 1t and crawled in out OF
curiosity. and then been caught by the
fall of the roof
The jewelry store of Zlrinsky is
known as "flle Tifany's of the East
Side" In the two safes are $4,000
worth OF diamonds alone, and the en-
tire stock of jewelry is valued at
many thousands more. These safes are
ftted with an electric alarm device
and incased in an outer steel shell.
Also the entire store is equipped with
up to-date burglar alarms. 50 that the
sonly way in which a robbery could
have taken place would have been by
dynamiting from below.
Isaac Finkelstein knew nothing
about driving tunnels. He had only
the rudest tools, no timber to shore up
tine roofs and walls of his burrow, no
bsrglar's kit to bore through the con-
crete and steel walls of the banks
vaults, no adequate idea of the elab-
orate precautions constantly on watch
revolver for the ever possible crisis
nothing but his guilty dream; and the
dream collapsed. That is all there is
to Finkelstein and his terrifying tun-
mol. 1t would be ridiculous IL 1t We're
not so ptiful.
Finkelstein was patronEof the Eas,
Side moving picture theatres, and
many, many successful bank robberies
dashed on the sheets. These things
may have worked on the imagination
of the easy going. impecunious paint
cr with five children TO support. II
they did, he must have thought Of
them every. time he looked out of his
Earret window. for behind him, on the
dead wall of the bank, fared the le-
Eend Deposits. s1o0o0,0oo," and by
craning his neck Il little he could see
the diamonds of Iirinsky, the jeweier.
burning in the window of the bril-
liantly lighted shop.
But nobody knows what Finkclstein
thought, unless it be Isidor Garbus.
his brother-in-law who is detained as
"a witness. though there is no PROOF
that he had guilty knowledge of the
tunnel.