Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-10

] to shovel back into the Ludlow street tunnel the sand removed in digging for the body of Isaac Finkelstein of 53 Ludlow street, who was smothered by landslide in a burrow he was build ing, supposedly to rob the jewelry store of E. Zirinsky at Grand and Ludlow streets.
 Must Have Had a Confederate. The police and the officials of the building department are sure that the man had a helper, but they are equally sure that the helper escaped from the cave-in that killed Finkelstein. The sand about the dead mans feet when they found him was loose and that about his body was tightly packed. This makes Captain Day of the Eld- ridge street police station lean toward the idea that his confederate tried, when Finkelstein was caught, to pull nm out from behind, and, failing to do so left him there dying
 The fact that F'inkelStein had the tools for digging in his hands; that the tunnel seemed to extend no further that his feet were in loose earth, as if someone had worked them free-aH this makes them believe that there is no other body in the tunnel.
 Postal Card Warning.
 Yet ZirinsHy is angry that the police have stopped the work of excava ton. because yesterday afternoon he got d second postal card in the same writing as the one that warned him Friday that the body of Finkelstein and his helper" would be found in the tunnel. which said:
 Look out for your store.
 A. FRUEND.
 Attempts Made in Other Sections.
 Inspector McCIanerty declared yes terday that within the year several similar attempts to bttrrow to pawn shops and jewelry stores have been made. but that the work had been dis covered before any harm was done.
 At the time these attempts were discovered.'' said he, T sent ont general warning to all pawnbrokers and Jewellers to be careful of such ad- vances on their places. I hope that this ,latest-case, so nearly successful, will increase their vigilance"
 So the matter has been dropped and Finkelstein's thirty yfoot trench has been filled up.
 Mrs. FinleIstein Prostrated.
 Yesterday after1ioon Ffnkelstein's body lay, in his brown overalls, gray shirt and rubber boots, on a sofs. in his widows fiat Many neighbOrs came to look at the dead body His little chir- dren-f1ve of them-were crying. al though they hardly understood what had happened. Mrs. FinkeIstein, the mother, was prostrated by grief. One of the first neighbors to come put two
 
 quarter into each. They will help to bury him. she said Not a person came in after that but dropped some thing, at least a penny, into those plates. AS for GarbuS, the brother-in- | law. who told the police he heard Fin kelstein coughing in the tunnel on l Thursday morning, he was about | gloomy and sullen. He did not seem to want to talk.
 The Job of Crazy Man. | Tt was the job of a crazy man." said Captain Day of the EIdridge street | police station. No sense of direction no proper tools. It was madness" But | there are those on the East Side who | think the failure to obtain work in | the trade of painter, in which Finkel- | stein was skilled the five pinched chfI- | dren and fragile wife, the glitter of | gold and glass in the jewellers window | and dogged nature may account for | the whole tragedy.
 Crowds at the Funeral.
 New York, Jan. 9.-Had Isaac Fin kelstein, who died under Ludlow street in a tunnel of his own digging been a great man. he could have had no more remarkable funeral than that held over his body in the miserable tenement 1 where he had lived
 Ten thousand persons attended. out 1f curiosity, and for hours filed through he little room lighted with fickering wax candles, where the body lay. ST. LOUIS RAGMAN