The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-02-25
NO CLUE TO Maiden q
LANE SAFE ROBBERS
Carbon, Borts and Jewelry to the
Value of S35. 900 Taken Be-
low the "Dead Line :.
JEWELERS. ARE UNEASY
Board Of Trade VIII Appeal TO Mayor
Gaynor for Better Police
Projection.

There was uneasiness below the dead
line-the dead line of Byrnes's day, but
no longer maintained by the police when
II became generally known in the jewelry
district yesterday that a safe in the office
Of Emanuel s. Rose on the seventh floor
Of 40 Maiden lane had been ripped open.
probably on Wednesday night. and s3o, 600
worth of jewelry. carbon and borts taken.
The jewellers are going to ask the police
to give them more protection.
The Jewellers Board of Trade will he
requested next week to appeal to the
Mayor and Police Commissioner Waldo
for more detectives to patrol the district.
Recently there has been only one detective
in the district. whereas heretofore there
have been at least three. But the sleuth hs
complai in that they can do nothing under
the present system which prohibits them
from picking up professional crooks In
the jewelry or financial district uniess on
a warrant or a definite charge. ,.I
In the case Of the Rose robbery the
police instructed Rose and Mrs Rose.
who is in business with him. to say moth
ing about it. No mention of it was made
at Police Headquarters, so the robbery
did not get into the newspapers until
yesterday morning So far the police
have made no progress toward getting
the thieves.
The robbery was an unusual one. Rose
deals principally in borts and carbon he
has small Office and in 1t was an old
fashioned safe. Lieut.. Reap. the expert
on safes in the Police Department. says
that the safe was not blown open. One
end OF the door was drilled and then the
covering was torn Off. which enabled the
robber or robbers to pull OF the outer
covering and get at the combination.
There are signs that nitroglycerine was
used
Mrs. Rose said yesterday that they
closed the Office on Wednesday evening
The next morning, Washington's Birth
day. when practically all Of the offices in
the building were closed, the superintend-
ent OF the building passed the door Of the
Rose Office. On the door was the follow.
ing sign written in Yiddish: please dc
not come in. Something lost. For y
time the detectives thought this sus-
picious. but Il was explained yesterday
tina. when diamond or a piece Of jewelry
was lost in one Of the jewellers offices
II was customary TO warn the cleaners.
The principal loss was in horts and car
bon. Borts are used to make expensive
drills, tools such as are used by jewellers
and saws. According to Mrs. Rose there
city. They have all been notified Of the
robbery. II the robbers knew what they
were taking-bort looks very much like
ashes maybe they will know how to dis
pose Of IT, II they are unfamiliar with
borts Mrs. Rose fears that they will dump
them into an ash can.
There has not been a robbery OF borts
in this city in forty years. she said yes
terday. Il doubt Is there are many per-
ons who ever heard OF it or know any
thing about them. Some OF the borts
we had were worth 81 so a carat and the
most valuable SIS a carat. The carbon
was worth about SIS a carat, We had
just received about $4,000 worth OF borts
on memorandum from firm in Amster-
dam and think We would be satisfied II
we got them back. The jewelry and dia-
mond loss was not great. The robbers
took about $500 in cash and even went 80
far as to carry OF the postage stamps in
the safe.
THE borts and carbon we're in small
oblong packages wrapped in tissue paper
! " the robbers are unfamiliar with borts
they will get surprise when they open the
packages. Very Likely they will throw
them away"
According to the detectives there was
watchman in the building. Mrs. Rose
says she does not believe there was one
| there on Wednesday night. Capt. Foye,
who made an investigation, said that Mrs
Rose said that jewelry had been stolen
| from a bag in the Office, but later she said
| that the jewelry belonged to a woman
| friend, who had removed il,
Areport that the jewellers had employed
private detectives was denied at the
Jewellers Board Of Trade. 1t was ad
mitted in the district however. that ths
jewellers we're taking extra precautions
4 to protect their stock.