The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-24
PENCIL SCARED BURGLARS
WIN MAN'S HAND IT MADE 4
BAD LOOKING SILHOI ETTE.
In Their Haste to Get Away From II One
Fell and Broke q Hip Had S:,SOO
Worth OF the McGioins' Naiuabics
stacked I'd OH Dining Room Floor.

The silhouette of mans hand holding
silver pencil as If II were revolver so
scared two burglars vino were surprised
while packing Christmas and wedding
presents into suit cases at the home OF
Maxwell McGloin. 22i Arlington ave
nue.. Fast New York, last night. that one
of the burglars trying 10 shin down
drain pipe. fell To the ground and broke
mis- left hip The other got away.
The MoGloin home is the upper part
Of "A two family house III the so-called
Arnyton section. McGloin is sales
man for Toch Bros. dealers in paint and
insulation al 800 Fifth avenue. Manhattan
He. his wife and Mrs. McGloin' 3 six-year-
cid son Jack Pilgrim, got home from
, shopping AZ plJ o'clock last night. Inc
! front door was open and up the stars IN
his own apartment Mctiloin saw hight.
/ Mindful " burglarIes III that nelghbor-
hood he told his wife he would 60 ahead
and see what was doing.
As he reached the head Of the stairway
n man Jumped into the McGloin home and
locked the door McGloin badc his wifi"
/ tell the police. then lungcd AT the door
Through the ground glass window he
could see the figure Of man who was
piling chairs against the door ne
burglar shouted that il McGloin broke
in he'd get killed,
IL was then that McGioln pulled ms
silver pencil on the burglar, As the hal
Lamp behind McGloin east the shadow
of the pencil on the ground glass of the
door the burglar disappeared McGlolr
smashed the glass and reached through
l~,,, IA, raj
had broken the lock and the door stayed
closed He crawled through the hole thai
he made and found himself confronting
81 800 wort Of his family property that
had been stacked by the burglars on the
dining room floor.
There we're silver that had come at
presents when Mr. McGloin and Mrs
Anna Pilgrim were married six months
ago. gifts that had been secreted against
to-morrow nights Christmas tree IN
cluding q Persian Lamb coat Tor Mrs
Nc(;loin and a small bank for Jack. which
father had salted with silver coins, snc
other things that nobody would want
thiPf 10 get
NcGloin and Jack had marshGlled IN tht
street had sprinted around TO the back
: of the house too late to catch one OF tht
, burglars. who he'd come, down the drain
pipe empty handed and got away over
! fences but in time to see ms PEI crf~
through a back window and fal' wher
half way down the pipe.
The second burgler had stopped tc
snatch no a suit case full of the McGloir
yalunbles. His hands being full of suit
} case az well rs drainpipe he was unable
! 10 save himself when his clothes caught
on a hook, and in wrenching himself
= loose he lost his grip on the pipe
McGloin was waving his silver penci
and shouting from the window, "Il
shoot if YOU move" and the DISABLED
=. burglar was sputtering Damn it, can
novel when Police Lieut.. Ivory anc
the crowd reached the fallen man. H'
said he was Max Siegel, tailor, OF 10:
Rivington street, Manhattan. He wa
, taken to the Kings County Hospital lh'
police say il isn't his first burglary,
: Two blocks from the McGloins live'
Mrs Fred Joel Swift. who was visittec
, recently by burglar Her burgla
D called IN later 10 say he was sorry he hao
frightened her. Later he was caught.