Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-06
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Despite elaborate and extra police
Gently as yesterday afternoon, to in
sure the South Broad street-Lincoln
Park residential section against bur-
glars which have terrorized it this
spring, the home of B. M. Stanley, jr.,
at 1893 Broad street, was entered early
this morning, and the thieves were
only frightenet. away after Mr. Shan
ley had fired three shots from his bed
~oom window in vain effort to attract
the attention of policemen.
The attempt on the Stanley house
this morning was the more daring and
determined in that the house Lad no.
Yet been abandoned by the family for
the summer. Heretofore town houses
occupied only by caretakers have been
marked by the second story men as
points of attack. There is every evi
dence that the men driven OF by Mr..
Shanley are members of the same band
which twice last month entered the
homes of former Senator John f. Dry
den and also that of William b. Kin
ney on BroaG street.
Window Smashed.
About 1:2O O'Clock this morning Miss
Alice Coleman, housekeeper for the
Shanleys. was awakened by the crash
OF glass She listened intently ano
after all interval OF quiet heard d
scraping sound near rear first floor
Wlndow She notified MIR. Shanley,
VINO, without waiting to ascertain the
exact position vi the housebreakers
fired three shots from the window OF
IL. .xlV., a. a..
house
The thieves were immediately fright
ened away, as investigation little
later proved. but SO lar as the police
men and the special plainclothesmen
assigned especially to patrol this burg
lar zone at night were concerned the
shots might just as well have been
fired. in Kearny. No echo OF them
was heard in the First precinct station
oven, and it was only indirectly that d
report of the robbery, including the
three reports of the revolver, made its
way to Captain Carroll, head of the
detective bureau at police headquarters,
late this morning.
When the cursory investigation of
the early morning was supplemented
after daybreak by a thorough one at
the Stanley home evidence of a most
determined series of efforts to get into
the house were discovered. First the
midnight marauders had cut away the
screen on a small window in the rear
leading to the basement laundry. This
window had proved too small 10 eQ-
able the thieves to get into the house
and another window to the laundry
on the south side of the house was
pushed in. Once in the laundry the
intruders made their way to the door
leading TO the pantry at the top OF
the basement steps. This door resisted
all their efforts to break it down, al
though they managed to break the
lock.
Ladder Was Used.
A ladder which the burglars found
in the basement seemed to offer solu -
tion to their perplexed problem. They
took it out and set it against a rear
kitchen window ON the first floor. The
screen to this window was quickly cut
away al the glass broken. 1t was
the sound of breaking glass which
aroused Miss Coleman.
TO insure against a repetition of the
rooperies which have terrorized this
section of fine residences. Captain Car
roll yesterday took two, Of his special
plainclothesmen. who are patrolling the
district at nighs, and showed them how
to watch the rear of the houses from
rear streets. Therefore the attempt at
the Stanley house, which followed this
morning, was particularly annoying.