The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-20
Thief IDENTIFIED
BBY HEEL-PR|NT IN
II W0MAN'S PILLOW
Two Burglars Caught After
Two Hours Wild Pursuit
Through Back Yards.
ABANDON $1,000 LOOT.
fugitives First Plead With
Women for Aid, Then Hurl
One Downstairs.

4 A v-shared cut in the rubber heel
or one Of his shoes was the undoing
Early to-day Of q burglar. That white
space in the smudge OF his footprint
T,n q woman's pillow. whittier he had
ieaped blindly In . desperate plunge
through the window Of her bedroom.
:allied 20 exactly with the cut In
John Jordan's heel that II will send
sim 10 the penitentiary.
Jordan's indiscretion in stepping
through Q lady's window on to her
pillow was but one incident In q
whiriwind thief chase that kept the
block bounded by Twentieth and
Twenty-nrst streets, Sixth and
Seventh avenues In tumultous uproar
Tor nearly two hours after midnight
this morning. One more burglar Of
q gang supposed TO number four or
ave Was captured and thousands Of
doliars' worth Of silks and nns vel
ret garments were saved by the ac-
tvity Of q half dozen policemen.
Ia william Pitt. Waterman for q burglar
erotection aycney. was about TO make
bis rounds Of . history loft building at
No II West Twenticth street at I
o'clock. The building Is occupied by
manufacturers of women's cloaks. fur
riers and makers OF other fine articles
81 feminine apparel. Pitt found that
there was key In the lock inside II the
CONT door and this circums lance aroused
>is suspicioa.
4 PITT summoned Policeman weitssh
lrom his Axsd post At Nineteenth street
and seventh avenue and after weitsch
game running UP rappins for help on
ths resounding pavement the special
tetchman MANAGED with his duplicate
acy 10 push the key inside the door to
the Moor and open the door.
$4,000 WORTH OF LOOT PILED
s HIGH; COPS HOT ON TRAIL.
- With Policeman Matherson and XII.
0uR. who had come up In answer 10
Wsitsch's rappinTs. weltsch and the
,Satchman started ~ make . quick tour
q the big building. They discovered
"a, the eighth floor that the bursiArs had
broken open an outside door TO the O..
adjustment OF kessler ana Company.
vSmsn's suit makers. but that an inner
door Of Iron had dclied their best efforts.
rnsn on the fourth hoor. occupied by
yuiius Cohen and Company. the police
NEG came on the hot trail OF the ma
psuders.
. The special luck In the door had beer
prjed off and the door itself PARTIAL,
lined from It's hinges. Inside the pile'
~ expensive cloaks and suits had beer
fi1ed by the connoisseur's hand ant
tS,eoo worth OF opera cloaks. bolts OF SIN
Ana velvet and expensive women
gewns had been piled In the middle o
ths floor. ready for transportation.
While the officers were examining thi,
loft they heard sounds Of voices bacl
o. the building and then 4 revolver shot
They Immediately dashed down TO th
around floor and lot themselves GU
into the mase Of yards and high fence
between the rows OF buildings fronting
On twentieth and Twsnty-ftrst streets
RE burglars had evidently made quicl
descent by WY Of the fire escape whe,
they heard the policemen ocminE int
ths building. and now they were tryin
% make a getaway over fences to tn
eids streets.
onoTe FLY WILD TILL POLICE
STOP NERVOUS MARksMEN.