New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-28
BURGLAR COMEDY
A $500 SUCCESS
Five Masked Men Truss
Up Theatre Attendants
and Blow Safe.
JANITOR DOES SPRINT.
CLAD IN NIGHTSHIRT
Police Find Three Others Bound
with Picture Wire-"Have
Good Time" Robbers Said.

Five methodicsl burglars. all pro
vided with masks, "gsts." gumshoes
and steslthy manners. after the best
traditions Of their profession. tip
toed in single file into the Star Thea
ire. a. Lexington Avenue and 10Th
Street, early yesterday morning An
hour later they al tip-toed out again.
taking with them all clevs to their
identity and 500 from the wrecked
theatre safe. and leaving behind them
the Waterman. the janitor, mis- wife
and the scrubwomsn neatly wrapped
up in picture wire, all gagged and
swsthed snugly in comfortables.
Morris Klein. the Waterman, was
making his rounds al ( o'clock, when
the quintet approached him and begged
him TO keep very. very quiet This,
after one startled look at the revolver
battery brought TO bear upon him.
Klein promised earnestly 70 do. On
:ip-toe, like his involuntary associates,
the Waterman led them TO the door
behind which Abraham Doresky and
his wife were slumbering. The burg
lars Knocked politely, and then Klein.
at their suggestion. asked the janitor
10 come out.
Doresky was overpoWered before ne
was thoroughly awakened. His wife
vas choked until she lost all desire TO
yell, for the police. Then. after
fruitless hunt for rope, the pictures
were ripped from the walls and their
wire was used in trussing I'D the cap
tiyes.
While they were IN the middle OF
this operation the scrubwoman. Fan
ME Simons. OF 1886 Lexington Avenue,
rapped at the theatre door for adms-
sion. One Of the FIVE let her in.
"Doresky and Klein are playing
poker upstairs" he said. Come on
up"
When Mrs. Simons entered the cham
Der she also was wrapped up Ike a
Christmas parcel and laid on the bed.
Klein was removed 20 make room for
her. and was wired 10 chair instead.
I'VE want you TO feel at home" one
Of the burglars professed, as he
opened a coverlid and spread 1t care
fully over Doresky, his wife and the
scrubwoman. Ana we don't like 70
think Of your taking cold. Have a
good time; but il you make any noise
we'll come back and blow your lids
off,"
Then they disappeared. After an
hour OF struggling DoreSky got has
hands free. at the cost of several LAGER
ations. and ungagged and unbound
himself He never waited 20 help his
fellow sufferers, but left the theatre
in search of the police, at high speed
and in nightshirt.
Patrolman Hanst. OF the East lO4th
Street station. met him skipping over
the chill pavements like respectable,
middle-aged faun. They hurried back
20 the theatre and released the others:
In the Office the door had been pred
off the safe. which had held the re
ceipts for Saturday and Sunday per
formances. but now was empty. The
burglars would have got more than
800. the management Of the theatre
explained yesterday, had II not been
that the actors. orchestra and ushers
had been paid off on Saturday night.
Detectives from the Third Branch
Bureau were summone After cues
tioning the released prisone-s, they
took Klein 70 the bureau for further
interrogation. He was later released.