Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-31
BURGLAR TRIES
TO KILL, BY GAS,
MEN He ROBBED
Makes Noise Acct
dentally in Exit,
Waking One.
FUMES FROM SEVEN
JETS NEARLY FATAL
Manner in Which WouId-Be
Murderer Entered House
Is Mystery.


In cold-blooded attempt to mur-
DER two men he had robbed. a burg
lar turned on seven gas Jets early to-
day in the home of Leopold Goodman.
los Bleeeker street.
But for the most trifing error in
Judgment he would have succeeded in
killing them. AS he slipped away
through the kitchen he veered a stem
to the right in his haste and crashed
against a table.
The noise aroused Goednan who
was already half stupehed by the
volume Of fumes pouring into the
parlor. which he and his brother-in-
law had made their temporary he'd.
chamber
staggering to his feet, Goodman
/, groped blindly out into the kitchen
and saw the door of his store-room
was ajar He peered into the room
and saw that the only window stood
wide open.
he made his way back through the
dining-room, dragged his brother-in-
law, Alfred Jansen, to his feet and
shouted
Shouts ''Some One Tried to kin Usv
someone's tried to kill us. AL. He
got out of the back Window
Jansen, gasping for breath in the
gas-iaden atmosphere, lurched across
the room to front window and
threw up the sash. AS he did so he
saw man in black overcoat run
ming along Bleecker street across
Plane. -,
Inc police do not know whether the
robbery was designed to hide the real
purpose of the attempted murder or
whether the burglar. peeyed at TIE
I I sfs--4I amount of cash he had OBJ.
tained, turned on the gas In un-
thinking rage.
The first is thought to be more
Probable and Detective. Owens. o,
/ police headquarters. and Detectives
Goodwin ana vgil, Of the Second pre.
cinct, are investigating.
Goodman is member of the firm
of L. Goodman & Co., butter anf
eggs, of IS Market street. He is saft
! to have divorced his wife recently.
4 He was. going to move from hi,
Bleecker street house tomorrow, ans
he and Jansen had made their bed,
for the night in the parlor Of the firs
floor
How He Entered Mystery.
The thief is thought to have en-
/ tered through the store-room win
dow Goodman. however, is positiv,
that the window was locked on tn
inside, and the detectives could fint
not the slightest trace of toolmarki
or even finger prints on the outsid,
of the sash.
Since there is no evidence that tn
burglar entered in any other way. /
is possible that he found the windov
| unlocked.
| He must have passed through tn
storeroom, kitchen and dining room
to reach the parlor. There he picked
up Goodman's trousers, which wer.
! lying beside the bed, and took 81
from the pockets He then turned OIL
| four gas jets in the parlor and thre,
in the dining-room.
When the noise of his departur,
awoke Goodman, the two rooms wer,
filled with deadly fumes. Accordin,
| to the police it would have taken onl,
| five or ten minutes longer to hav,
killed both sleepers.
Policeman Widman, of the Secons
precinct. heard the calls of the tw,
men and reported the case as one o
robbery to the lieutenant on duty.
The detectives found a pair of over
alls and hat on the back porch
below the storeroom window. 1t /.
supposed that these were dropped
by the robber. but the police ar.
puzzled to know why. His hat ma,
have been knocked off when h,
climbed out of the window, or h,
may have placed it on the porcf
before he went in; but it is improb
able that he stopped to take off tn,
overalls.
The police think that the overalli
may possibly have been left ther,
purposely as blind to the real pur
pose and identity of the criminal
The overalls might be taken to i'm
ply mere hasty robbery, and not {
premeditated attempt to kill the men
The detectives think. too, that ther,
may be some connection between th,
mystery of the overaIls and of tn,
unmarked window.