The evening world., 1913-04-14
BURGLARS BUILD
SCAFFOLD|NOPEN
TO CUT INTO SAFE
Calmly Work Under Tenants
Windows and Cut Hole in
Pawnshop Wall.
100000 IN VAULT.
Elaborate Kit of afe-Cracking
Tools Found at Home of
Four Prisoners.
100000 IN VAULT.

In the four men arrested on suspicion
OF having put up a scafroid and broken
through wall in the rear OF John
simpsons pawn chop. No. 1874 Bowery.
last night to reach the pawnbrokcr.
safe. Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty believes he has gang OF
cafe robbers who. probably. can account
for dozen or more recent safe bur-
glaries. This afternoon Acting Captain
Mckenney and Detectives Caravetta.
Sheviin and Kelly searched HAT on the
ground floor OF No $50 Elizabeth street.
which was rented on April 0 by P!etro
LaSatutta, one OF the prisoners.
Beneath the bed they found piece OF
planking exactly like that used in the
scafYold and in the cellar a kit OF bur-
glars tools. which Dougherty said was
one of the finest he had ever seen.
There we're two electric drills SO pow
erful that one tested bit through the
head OF a sledse hammer There were
two slcdges, moro than nifty drills and
chisels, a bottle OF nitro-glycerine. lock-
picks, heavy blankets to duh the sound
OF an explosion. an automatic revolver
and an ordinary revolver OF heavy CALI
bre as we'll as n gasoline torch.
Several windows OF tenements over
look the spot where the burglars
worked with chisels. hammers and
other tools. but the would-be safe
blowers, seemingly. thought their very
sang froid and assurance would CLOAK
them. The police believe that the at.
temp, to break Into tho vault would
have been made last night. a. candles
and q kit OF burglar tools to be used
in that enterprise we're found along
eide the vault. These articles had been
taken In through the hole battered u
the wall.
Simpson says there 10 jewelry and
| other valuables worth 100000 IN ths
vault, but that 1t would have been I'M
possible to steal this on account OF tn
vault being covered with q web Of
burglar alarm wires.
Tenants Of No. las Elizabeth stree
looked through their rear windows ant
saw the jagged hole In the wall. The,
saw too q scaffold. such as painters use
suspended from the roof and abou
twelve feet from the ground. This. Will
the hole In front OF the scaHoiu"S' ca
cited their suspicious, and they notihet
the police.
!, Capt. william II. Kinsler. with . forc'
1 Of detectives and patrolmen from TIT
Mulberry street station. surrounded tn
block and Investigated. Three mel
we're arrested as they came out OF tn
hallway at No. l50 Elizabeth street. ant
on information they gave fourth maj
> was found in q small room on tn
ground floor OF that house. There wa
q revolver hid in one Of the beds.
Tho four men were unable to give
satisfactory account OF themselves. an
on suspicion OF having attempted tn
robbery they were taken to Headauar
tiers.
There the prisoners said they wer
Joseph Massere. a tailor. Of No. I'll For
syth street: Petro Lagattuta. a iaborel
OF No. 90 East Houston street: Salvador
Ruhino. q piasterer. OF No. :iS Mort
Sixth street. Brooklyn. and Giusepp
Runino, of No. 57 North Fifth stree
; Brooklyn. The police say that Masse'
was arrested In 1907 on q charge OF burr
: larry, and later In the same year on
/. charge Of extortion.