The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-21
DARING BURGLARY
. ON GROVE AVENUE
Mitteldorfer Home Robbed o
Valuable Silverwear and
Other Articles.
ENTERED THROUGH CELLAR
Nobody Sleeping There at Time,
So Thieves Had Good Chance
to Operate.

| Entering through the cellar door in
the rear and then breaking a bolt on
the door leading upstairs. burglars Mon.
day night robbed the home of Leroy
Mltteldorfer, 1908 Grove Avenue. Of
about $500 worth of 1ewelry, silver
ware, bed linen and ss5 In cash.
The burglary was discovered by Mr.
Nlitteldorfer when he returned home
from Centralia, where his family IS
spending the summer, on Tuesday af-
ternoon. and was reported immedi-
ately to the police. Up to late hour
last night they had obtained no clue
to the thieves, though they held sew
! eral under suspicion and were watch
ing them
House Vacant Tint Night.
The house is generally occupied by
Moses Mitteldorfer, proprietor of the
cigar stand in Murphy's Hotel, but h..
failed to sleep in his brothers home
Monday night. and yesterday he said
he felt glad that he wasn't at home
as ne would have been unarlned and
hardly in position to have faced
desperate robbers. He knew nothing
OF the robbery, having spent the night
| with a friend, until notified by his
brother. jThe latter returned from
Centralia. as his daily custom, to see
| that everything was intact, and was
surprised when he found the cellar
! door broken open. and upon investiga-
ton. that the house had been ran.
sacked from top 10 bottom
Every room had been entered. In
the bed rooms the bureau drawers
were pulled out and left lying on the
| floor. with clothing, he'd linen ana
Il oln
IN the dining room everything was
found in confusion. Dresser drawers
were scattered about.
Silyerwnre stolen.
All the silverware. which was tne
most valued property in the house.
was missing. The table silver consist
Ing OF spoons. knives and fork. was all
gone Not so much because of the in.
tr'nsic value as because of the sent,.
mental value attached was Mrs. Nit.
tledorfer grief-stricken when she foun5
that 1t had been stolen. The silver
ware mad been presented to her on bor
wedding day by Mrs. Yetta Solomon
SKY: sclose friend and relative. VINO
uleo exactly one year from the day
the robbery was discovered. The silver
iidu neen In the two families so close
~ connected, for generations, ana i,
would be hard to estimate its value
beyond mere cost
me jewelry box, in which Mr. Mjt.
.eiuoi ief Keeps such iewelry as is no,
paced in safe deposit value wha, ~
is away. was FOUND to have been hro,, ~,
open and handsome bracelets and othe,
aricles were missing The thieves lef,
noth'ng untouched, nothing uneyam.
lneo. Ihey turned on the lights and
went ABOUT their work with remarkah,.
care seemingly aware of the fact tha
INC FAMILY was away and that the,
could go about their business withom,
tear OF molestation or interruption.
TOOK Savings Bank, Too.
Inc little savings banks Of the tw,
ren--Marx and Flora-were also
opened and emptied of their conten. =
! amounting to $35 in all. Bed and ia
pie linen was also stolen. The burg
, iars even tore down the curtains
though none was found to be missing
!hey were evidently loaded down. ant
mad not time enough In which r.
wrap up the curtains SO as not Il
| show y
But they left little else. The nan
Try was empty, and the furniture was
, TOO heavy to take away with TIL,
other loot they had in their posses
sion.
Some hold to the opinion that TIL.
/
police incline to the opinion that ev
erythine that was stolen was carried
Off IN one trip. They made their exit
as they had made their entrance
, through the cellar door, and no on,
: In the neighborhood knows exactly
when they came or when they de
: parted
Heard Strange Noise.
!, Members of the household of P. p
Winston, clerk of the Law and Equit,
, Court who lives at 1907 Grove Ave
3 nue.. next door to the Nlitteldorfers
heard pounding against the doors o
the latter place at 10 o'clock Of tn,
night of the burglary. But the house
adjoin so closely that the banging o
) doors in either is heard in the other
and no attention is paid to the noise
: 1t Is probable that 1t was made by tn,
r burglars when they were breaking tn
e bolt of the door leading upstairs from
the cellar,
, The house has since been nailed up
+ and any burglar, however eSoerienced
I1y-i1 y "a t,,