The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-12
BURGLARY BEE IN THE BRONX
STORES IOOTED WIN METHOD
lND without haste.

Thieves stroll Quietly from house 90
House. .Iin,n,,ing Their way. Happy.
hat Not Boisterous Foe Once They
Are scared into AbansisniBs Loot
Dwellers in the Longwood section Of
The Bronx. which takes IN Prospect and
Longwood avenues. Southern Boulevard
/ and Dawson Beck, Fox and Kelley streets.
are sitting up nights waiting for burglars
with watchdogs Embossed and revolvsrs
in nervous hands. From l5sth street TO
i85d street the slightest noise after dusk Ia
likely Tn cause fusillade from apartment
house windows. The mlldest hammered
stranger IL regarded with suspicion
Early yesterday morning intruders
sauntered through the back yards Of a
row OF one story buildings on Prospect
avenue. jimmying' windows and doors
and gathering the loot IN boxes and bags
for flight u flight should he necessary.
The majority Of places visited were
small stores. The thieves ransacked
them. emptying tills and leaving parcels
piled mp in the back yards for the time
beng. When they came 90 the last store
they were frightened IN and the greater
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On Friday some one rode away from in
front Of butcher store at 500 Prospect
avenue with $500 worth 81 meat in stolen
cart. and ON that same night there were
three other burglsrics in the Longwood
section. The thieves got about 500 profit
| from each place
Each policeman has "A beat about one
| mile long and ths residents say that II Is
easy Tor burglars to figure when the man
on post Will TX" AZ n safe distance. In Fox
Square there IL "A police booth with man
wood folks think he isn't sufficient protec-
ton IL took thc reserves Of the Morris
ANA station twenty minutes to arrive
On the scene of Yesterdays burglaries.
They had been called 10y Samuel Levy,
who lives in the, rear Of his furnishing
store at ssS Prospect avenue. He was
awakened about o'clock in the morning
| by noise which he Thought was caused
! by rats. He was going ~ to sleep again
when beam OF light slanted across his
bed. II came through the door that
opened from his shop into the candy store
! OF =. Schultz.
| MIR. Levy realized tina no one slept there
and when he saw "a mans form slip across
the light he sat up in bed and called out.
| There came the NOISE. OF sons. one running
50 MI. Levy called mp the reserves. When
they got there they found that IN. door
separating the two stores had been partly
/ Jimmi.-d az was the nois.. Of tn. tool tina {
awakened th. stOr"ke%per,, that Schutte's
candy was all over the floor 81 the shop
and that the. barred window in the rear
had been forced 10y som. one in the yarc.
at work with what the. polio. call screw
jimmy
Tn. police went into tn. back yard COM
mon 10 all the littl. stores and found thar
about six men. Judging from footsteps
IN tn. SNOW had been at work with that
screw jimmy forcing a-ld. the bars
in the rear windows enough to admit
un.. man who had piled this. contents Of tbs.
shops INTO boN-- and passed them ont To
! his colleagues The. latter had left the.
boxes in tho yard and gone. ON 20 the NEXT
| store. where the prUC,.S- WIS repeated
! six heavy iron hATS IN one store window
had been twisted III. Every one of thu.
\stor.- from SSa to sa5 hIi bs--n entered
The biggest haul was mad. in a j.welry
siOr" at sa5 III. burglar hai crawl..i
| into TIA" front room. pulled down the
| had.-S uf th. street windows and light q
| ing the gas had stuffed all tn. stock Of
| jew.lry that wouldn't fit into his pockets
| into a box which aft.rward was found
IN tn. back yard. The j-~-ller said yes
terday that he didn't know how much Of
his Christmas ware had got into his visi =
I tors pockets. but h. though u was IA
! lot
| When frightened of by Mr. Levy
I the thieves ran through an alley from the
| backy ards into isist street.