Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-05
PARTMENT HOUSE
THIEF GETS AWAY
WITH COSTLY LOOT
Stole Sl,5O0 Worth Of Jewelry
Yesterday and $1,000 Worth
the Day Before.
AROUND TENTH AND
JEFFERSON STREETS

A clever, slippery thief Is robbing right
and left in apartments IN this city and
after drive for loot which he has been
pushing with great success since the
early part Of last summer, has the resi-
dents of the vicinity OF Tenth and Jeffer-
son streets tcrrorlzcd
In the Vernon and Donaldson apart
mentS. jefferson. street above Tenth,
tenants say they have been robbed several
times within fcW weeks, Virtually every
apartment in these two buildings has been
visited by the thief in the past few months.
Now the fellow has started in around on
Tenth street. the first place visited by
him being the apartment of Mr.. and Mrs
Edward q. Bennett. at College Inn, 50l
West Tenth This happened yesterday
and the thief got away with Jewelry valued
IN ali at about 81 500 Mr.. Bennett Is 3
special agent for the Pennsylvania rail-
road He and Mrs. Bennett were both out
Yesterday when the thief forced open the
door and ranSacked a chltTonier Mrs.
Benefits engagement ring was taken,
but another valuable ring was lett alone.
-Four diamond rings, two gold watches,
diamond sunhurst and heavy gold ring
were taken. Some gold trinklets were left
The r0bber also overlooked S3 IN cash
lying on = mantelp!ece.
Dav before Yesterday supposedly the
same thief entered he apartment Of
Nr. and MrS. Isaac 4 Gray, on the
second floor Of the Vernon Apartments,
and stole q necklace diamond cuff links
and several gold rings valued in all at
about 81 900 This time the burglar was
seen By persons living nearby. as ne
entered the place and again as ne left.
First he was seen lettering N an alley by
the Vernon. Then they watched him as he
entered the building In a few minutes nc
came out and walked down the same
allev Not long afteru ard Mrs Gray re-
urned home and found things topsy
turvy.
Less than two weeks ago tho Apartment
OF Mr.. and Mrs Willard II Porter, r.,
on the third floor Of ths pona|don, was
entered and l0t of lewclrv and silver
ware was taken Three times in thc past
few months has the apartment ri Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur II Natthes, IN the Vernon,
been robbed. the latter declared today
The last time was about two months ago
That time the thief got away with vlr-
tualy all Of Mr. Natthes diamonds tick
pins and other trInkets fortunately
Mrs. Matthes, prohtlng by experience,
wore all Of her lcwelry hat day.
DETECTIVES on THf TFAI;
Detectives have been notified Of all
these robberies and they are DONG their
best 10 bring the slick fellow to book
That one man has been doing al this
crooked work alone Is The belief The
way the doorA everywhere have been
forced strongly indicates this. With an
lnstruInt ut 20 nrthing like . case knife,
the fello, sI.unl1 inserts ( between the
door ana the frame and works the bolt
back until the door open> Here and
there a latch vas broken as the result
Several persons who think they have
seen the imposed thief going m and OUT
describe him a. being between 25 and 30
years OF age ana of good appearance. 4
woman NAV be aiding him 50 the victims
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