The sun., 1910-01-07
DIG FOR him IN HIS TUNNEL
EINkELSTEEN HEADED ACROSS
THE STREET FOR A JEWELLERS.

Operation In New YOrk--CIty sinks
SHAFT 10 Find Out-Hasn't Got Him.
Wednesday, January S-Isaac Finkel-
stein, painter. who lived with his family
at Ss Ludlow street. went down into the
cellar of the house at IS. next door. at
9 o'clock tonight. saying that he was
going to get a bundle OF wood for the
stove. There is q six story building
at IS that has not been occupied yet.
1t is reported that Finkelstein had
been accustomed to go to the cellar often
and come back with kindling wood.
s:so-Mrs. Finkelstein got worried be-
cause her husband had not returned.
She went into the cellar and called his
name. There was no reply. She re-
turned to her family.
Midnight-Finkelstein had not returned.
Thursday. January Q. 7:so A. M-Isidor
Gsrbus, a brother Of Mrs Finkelstein,
who lives in the same building. dropped
in to see the Finkeisteins. Mrs. Finkel-
stein told him that her husband had
disappeared. She couldn't understand il.
The hve children were crying: go was
Mrs. Finke!steIn.
8. A. M.-Garbus ran to the Eldridge
street police station. He told the lieu
tenant that he had been in the cellar Of
the building at IS Ludlow street and that
he had heard groans there. 1t must be
Finkelstein grosning. Police Headquar-
tiers was notified and Garbus went with
several policemen to the cellar.
"a M.-Garbus and the police descended
the ladder leading to the cellar. They
found a large hole in the front wall
and tunnel leading from it across Lud-
low street as far as they could see. Garbus
thought that maybe his brother-in-law
had made a tunnel so that he could get
across the street quicker; he couldn't
think OF any other reason. He had crawled
in as far as he dared himself. he said.
Hs found nothing
II A. M.-Word was sent to N. j. Reville,
chief construction inspector OF the Build
ing Department. Also a hurry call was
put in for an ambulance.
li:S0 A. M.-Inspector Reville arrived
and went down into the cellar at once.
The bottom of the cellar was covered
with loose earth, which had evidently
been thrown there by the persons who
dug the tunnel. Inspector Reville de-
cided to enter the tunnel and see for him
self.
Noon-It was with considerable DIM
Guilty that the inspector got started. for
the mud was slippery and the passage
email. just large enough to admit grown
mans body. Straight ahead crawled
the inspector. until suddenly he was forced
to turn sharply to the right. He fol-
lowed the front wall Of the building for a
few feet and then he began TO drop lower
and lower; il became also darker and
darker. All of a sudden there was a
great dip and the inspector found the tun-
mel led directly across the street in the
direction OF F. Zirinsky's jewelry store.
at the southeast corner OF Grand and
Ludlow streets. Inspector Reville ap-
preached a cavein about twenty five feet
from the mouth Of the tunnel and he de-
cided not to attempt to 60 in any further
He stretched his hand out and was led
70 teIeve that beyond this pile OF loose
earth and stone, there was more tun-
mel; but il was terribly dark and cold and
vet, so he turned around with great diff
Guilty and crawlcd back on his hands and
knees. The police arrest Garb us as sus-
Ticious rcrson.
n IFS P. MI. ZirinslSy smiled affably
VIXEN dozcn reporters entered his jew
elry store to ask him what he thought.
IL is not the first time that an attempt
has con made to rob me. = said F. Zirirsky.
y am protected With electrical burglar
alarms and he probably knew that. Maybe
he would bore hole in the floor and come
through. amt it?- After some rersua-
sion f. Zirinsky was willing to say that
he valued his stock at S6O, 900. Maybe
more; maybe LOSE with shrug Of the
shoulders. r. Zirinsky could find no
signs Of a hole in his cellar.
2:tS p. MA gang OF laborers from the
= Building Department arrived and began
70 sink a shaft from the street to
find tinHelstein, lnsoector Reville told
them that he wanted them to dig into
the tunnel beyond where he had been.
They removed the tagging from the
sidewalk and dug downward. Police
lines were formed, for a large crowd OF
East Siders had gathered.
$40 p. M.-Mrs. Finkelstein and her
fTe children got through the limos and
bothered the workers so much that the
police made them get out again.
s:45 p. M.--Sarah Finkelstein. who is
, II years old and the oldest OF the children.
said that her father had never gone down
into the cellar before Wednesday night.
Please don't arrest father II you find
him" Sarah impIored the reporters. -Ees 9
an honest man. All the little Finkei-
stems cried.
I25P. MA man in the crowd advanced
the theory that possibly the tunnel was
directed at branch Of the Fourteenth
Street Bank. two doors east OF Ludlow
street on Grand street
Sis P. M.-The crowds returning from
work became so unwieldy that extra police
were summoned. The diEgsrs were
progressing slowly. They had not reached
the roof OF the tunnel
eI5 P. M.-Herman Zaixaner Of lS7
Havemeyer sbreet. Brooklyn. who Is q
clerk employed by Max Megurowsxy. q
jewelry manufacturer at 81 Ludlow