Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-12-13
WHERE IS THE THIEF?
Bold, Bad Burglars Rob RAN
sack And Relieve Stern'S
Store OF 5000 Worth
OF JeweIry
NO CLUE TO THE THIEVES
Thought To Be Several Who Entered
Pawn Shop On Market Space And
Had No Interruptions From
Police

Perhaps the idea of bestowing gifts
of jewelry on their best beloved, be
thought the thieves who last night
/ burglarized the store and pawn shop
of Louis Stern, No. 10 Market Space.
between the hours of midnight and
o'clock this morning. However
that may be, Mr.. Stern, who is pro-
prietor, is the loser by between $500
and $1,000, the estimated value of
the goods stolen.
The work was accomplished after
midnight, as up to that time the
saloon of Charles Weiss, nearby.
was open, and persons passing in
and5 out would have been attracted
by the noise and the light.
Mr.. Stern thinks it was impos-
sible for one man alone to have
accomplished the work, as the whole
store was ransacked, goods moved
from the back shelves to the front,
and assorted, the thief or thieves
making a selection of what was
wanted. Watches, rings, pins and
jewelry of all sorts usually found in
pawn shop, were taken.
There was about 5000 worth that
had been pledged and belonged to
other people, but there was between
5000 and 1000 worth that belonged
to Mr.. Stern, having been forfeited
by the owners. Five or six diamond
rings with small stones, were taken,
but the larger diamonds had been Sc
cured in the safe.
Not only was jewelry taken, but
the burglars dressed themselves in
the clothes in the shop, taking trous-
ers and blue flannel shirts, and Sc
lecting linen collars from No. Ia IL
box this is evidently the size of the
thIef's neck You who wear l4I-2
collar look to it.
Besides jewelry, watches, clothing,
the burglars stole two suit cases, one
an alligator skin and one a light
leather case, bound with straps. In
these they must have packed the
stolen goods.
The entrance to the pawn shop was
effected in a noisy manner, as broken
glass scattered the sidewalk which
had been cleaned of snow. With a
diamond, or some sharp instrument,
an effort had been made to cut the
window pane, which was in two Sec
tions, having been broken and mend
ed. The glass being too thick to cut
through, the window was broken, and
the shop entered in this way.
No police officer could have been
near, or the noise of the crash of
broken glass would have attracted
notice. 1t seems probable that no
one passed that way, as the robbers
used a whole box of matches in light
ing their way through the store, and
Mr.. Stern estimates that the burglar
or burglars spent at least three hours
inside, as it was impossible to accom-
pilsh the work in less time than
that.
The first to notify Mr.. Stern his
store had been robbed was Mr.. A.
j. Stinchcomb, who, upon going to
his stall in the market early this
morning. noticed the window had
been broken, and called up Mr.. Stern
at his home. Mr.. Stern feels that
some officer of the law should have
discovered the robbery before it be-
came known to a citizen and business
man. He at once reported the burg
larry to Baltimore police headquarters
and today will visit all the pawn
shops of Baltimore and Washington
in the hope of securing some of his
stolen goods.
There is no clue to the burglar, ex-
cept that on Saturday a strange man
came to the pawn shop to warm hin :
self, took look around and in con-
versation told several conflicting
stories. His eye was blackened and
he had scar on his cheek. He said
he had worked in dairy in Balti-
more county and got the injury there,
but his strange actions and conflict
ing story excited suspicion.
The robbery is the first since Ben
esch's store, Main street, was broken
into few months ago from a rear
window, and a futile attempt made
to open the safe, This was at the
end of the month on Saturday after
midnight. Last nights robbery re-
calls that