The evening world., 1911-10-28
BURGLAR ALARM
F0|LS ROBBERS
PACKING FURS
Policeman Hears Bell Ringing
and the Building Is
Surrounded.
BUT THIEVES ESCAPE.
Had Assembled Fire Escape to
Top Floor, Then Down the
Stairs to Furrier's Loft.
BUT THIEVES ESCAPE.

Policeman Fitzgerald OF the West
Thirtieth street station. was passing
No. as Sixth avenue. near Twenty-ninth
street. early to-day when he heard q
burglar alarm ringing in the building. He
raped for assistance, and Policemen
Murphy and German responded and sta
toned themselves in front of the build
Ing while Fitzgerald and Detective
Bauerschmidt. who also came on the
scene. went to the rear. Reserves who
were summoned guarded the building
on all sides.
The drop ladder OF the rear fre-escaps
wal resting on the ground. and F.tx-
gerald md Bauerschmidt climbed up
to the fourth floor. the top OF the build
ing. There they found the iron shutter
leading into the Roth Embroidery Com.
pany's establishment had been jlmmied
open. The officers climbed through the
window.
They found hat the door leading into
the hall had been forced open. and fo.-
lowed the trail down to the third floor,
occupied by the Brilliant Sign Company,
where another forced door confronted
them. The sign company had no bur-
slar alarm. SO he officers kept on 10
see where the thieves had been work.
Ing.
A hole in the noor about two feet
square. with a rope dangling down into
the darkness. was the nrst thing they
saw. Fitzgerald slipped down the rope.
followed by Bauerschmddt. and discov-
cred that Semmel & Meisler, furriers,
on the second floor. whose establish.
ment 10 protected by . burglar alarm.
had been the object Of the thieves
visit.
On the floor at the bottom Of the
hole lay a saw. a brace and two bits
and a heavy pair Of scissors for cut
ting metal. Near by was a bottle of
promo settler. some sandwiches and
some grapes. and all over the floor were
bundles Of furs that the thieves had
evidently prepared to be taken when
one Of them accident-..y touched the
burglar alarm and they were compelled
to flee. leaving their plumber.
Only the choicest skins had bean
taken. Enough skins had been wrapped
up to make a wagon load, and the M
lice believe the thieves planned to carry
the bundles up to the fourth floor and
down the fre-escape TO the rear, where
a wagon would have met them to haui
away the plumber.
The sandwiches and grapes Indicated
that the thieves meant to take plenty of
time to pick over the furs without going
hungry and probably Intended to spend
most Of the night at their task and have
the wagon meet them at a time when its
presence loading bundles In the street
would not attract attention.
A watch vas set In the ~ne!ghborhood
In the hope that the wagon would come.
but evidently the thieves had counter
manded the order. for no wagon made
Its appearance. A search Of the neigh
borhood failed to reveal n more traces
OF the thieves.
Mr.. Semel told the de electives that
about twO weeks W on a rainy day,
a man wearing a -aincoat and with his
hat pulled over his eyes. represented
himself as coming from a burglary in.
surance company to inspect the wir-
Ing Of the work and storerooms. Sem
mel demanded credentials, but all that
the man could show was a number of
application blanks. He was o-de red
out OF the place.
The burglars are believed to he the
same gang who several nights ago dug
through q cement flooring to get nj
the metal ceiling OF Samuel Saxe's fur
shop at No. "a West Twenty-fourth
street. They cut through the ceiling
n got away with 1000 valuable mink
skins.