Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
BURGLARS COME
AND LIKEWISE CO
Police Lieutenant and Fire Com
missioner Agree That They
Are a Bad Lot.

his home, 305 South Seventh street
early Saturday night, to Lieutenant
Charles McGovern, of the Fourth po-
lice precinct, Fire Commissioner T. II.
Burke spoke unreservedly of the Incl
dent and his impressions thereof.
This was because the lieutenant
manifested deep interest in the
affair and wanted to know a lot, SO
that he could set the police on the
track of the miscreants"
The commissioner explained that
his wife and son had left the house
early in the evening for a trip down
town. The thieves, who, mo- doubt,
had been watching for an opportunity
to declare dividend of the commits
sioners household possessions, lost no
time in getting to work to take an in
ventory of stock and help themselves
to such articles as might be convert
ed into cash in some enterprising
pawn shop. AS 1t is a one-family
residence, the "marauders," at least
Lieutenant McGovern declared they
were "marauders,' as we'll as mis-
creants," and the commissioner
frankly admitted they were In no sense
friends, no doubt felt they could pro-
coed with the work of earning an
To further guard against Interrupt
lions or annoyances while engaged in
their "nefarious" operations, the lieu
tenant describes them as ''nefarious,'
the invaders, Admiral Dewey-like,
cut the cables. That is to say. they
severed the telep hone wires. They
then. or perhaps before this, arranged
the front door so as to admit of a
hurried departure by this means of
nd od irtc cd "a h oIr f,. &,
like manner, SO as to take a farewell
trip in that direction, as the exigen-
cies of the situation would demand
1t was not at all unlikely that some
member of the family might return
unexpectedly and start ejectment pro-
ceedings and perhaps tell the police
of the presence of the unwelcome
guests. The back door had been Sc
curely bolted before Mrs. Burke and
her son had started for downtown,
and the front door properly locked.
These ordinary precautions were
but mere trifies to the thieves, 1t de-
yelopd. They gained entrance and
likewise got down to business. Took
as many liberties as pevsons holding
mortgages on premises might take If
they were on a foreclosing job.
Commissioner Returns Early.
Mr.. Burke arrived at his home
shortly before o'clock, he told the
lieutenant, and with him were two
exceptionally delicately-molded ac-
quaintances. who had given him a
ride in their automobile. Instead of
going directly into the house, the COM
missioner stood for some time on the
steps chatting with his friends in the
automobile. 1t was at this time, in
the estimation of the commissioner,
that the burglars became aware of
the fact that some person whom they
had no particular desire to meet, was
about to butt in" on their investi-
eating proceedings, SO they abruptly,
but quietly, and without even an "au
revoir," left via the rear door and
tangoed through the city stable prop
erty to Eighth street and skipped by
the light of the MOON" That was the
last of them, SO far as present pur-
poses go.
The commissioner entered his resi-
dence, lighted the gas, scanned the
evening papers and other current
litera ture for about an hour and then
retired 1t was not until Mrs. Burke
and her son returned that the robbery
was discovered. They found the chif
fonier drawer displaced and contents
tossed about and other evidences of
the thieves visit. But one article
was missing-a gold watch that had
been given to Mr.. Burke's thirteen
p
present.
The two delicately -molded friends
who had given the commissioner the
ride home were none other than Fire
Chief Paul j. Moore and his driver,
Louis Pfirmann, who had business in
that neighborhood investigating a
false alarm OF fire from station SAT,
at Fourteenth avenue and South
Seventh street
Miscreants, Says McGovcrn.
"A nice bunch for them miscreants
to meet" ventured Lieutenant Nc
Govern.
"Well, they might entertain the
..robbers until the police came along
to break up the party replied the
commissioner.
But the robbers would shoot you
jf you surprised them" declared the
lieutenant Its a way they have,
the dirty murderers. They're bad
lot"
officer Fitzsimmons, who was de-
tailed on the case, arrived at the
conclusion that the theft was the
work of boys about seventeen or
eighteen years of age, who. 1t was
believed are responsible for many
of the recent robberies in the "Hill'
section.
At all events, officer Fitzsimmons
gave cordial assurance that he would
arrest the crooks" if he caught
them.
Mr.. Burke, who said that he voiced
a grievance entertained by neighbors,
told the sergeant that the city stable
yard, which the Board of Works few
years ago declared would be made a
thing OF beauty" a sort of IAN or
ange grove" instead of an unsightly
proposition, is nothing more nor less
than an eyesore, a dumping ground
for water and sewer pipe, which is
piled many feet high about the prem
Uses. The place affords an excellent
means of approach by thieves to
dwellings on the westerly side of Sew
enth street, and an equally convenient
way of escape.
Protests by property owners, the
Board of Education and teachers in
the Fourteenth Avenue School were
entered when the project for locating
a city stable there was preached
Promises that no cause for complaint
were given. but those promises were
never kept.
Temple B'nai Jeshurun
Forms Temporary Auxiliary