Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-08
ANOTHER REIGN OF TERROR COMES
TOPAL|SADE WHEN BURGLARS BREAK
IN BALDAMUS AND ELDREDGE HOMES
West Side of Car Track Once More Suffers From Thieves Who
Jimmy Two Windows, Get in, But Make Small HauIs.
Dog Supposed to Have Scared ntruders Away.
Critic Boosts Police System, However.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE FRIGHTENED

Once again the Palisade burglar has
made himself conspicuous. And this
time he returns to his old hauntS-on
the west side of town, where police
surveillance is known to be letter-per-
feet on all except burglars. These
gentry have way with them. They
are the most artful dodgers known
They are the magic disappearing trou-
badours, and when a policeman is OH
his beat they beat it, beat him to any
thing, beat the records and beat all,
the way they have
Last Sunday night, presumably ear
ly in the evening, two homes were en-
tered and robbed The hauls were not
great, but the fact that they were
around frightening women and chill
dren leads to the belief that the town
was full of policemen or the intruders
would not have been so daring Also
it is evident that there is daWning an
other reign of terror in the town I'M
less the Home Defense turns out and
stands guard to warn the devils away
SO far as policemen of the borough are
concerned, they are each and all nice
lot of men-none of them old, many of
them bright, active athletes and wor-
thy of better luck chasing burglars,
for Palisade has given them ample To
do hunting them down without sue
cess-making them jokes, in fact
The thieves entered the Baldamus
home through a window of the dining
room on the south side of the house by
jimmyfng the window. Whoever it
was made for an upstairs room, gath
cred up an armful of small jewelry be-
longing to Miss Dorothy Baldamus
and never touched another thing in
the house. They left many other val
liable pieces of jeWelry close at hand.
One theory is that there were two
groups of the burglars and both got
busy at the same time. The other
group entered the Eldredge home just
where the same procedure was gone
through With-that is. the taking only
of the jeWelry belonging to Miss Mil
dred Eldredge. Then the Eldredge
dog began to raise a rumpuS with his
terrific barking, and the BaldamuS
thief, fearing the alarm would start
the neighborhoOd slid out of the same
window he came in at and was away.
The Eldredge visitor left by the front
door, as the window was down.
Mr.. Baldamus and his family got
home after spending the afternoon in
New York about 1915. They discov-
cred the loss at once, but before they
could send in an alarm Mrs. Eldredge
and Mildred came over badly fright
ened-too much so TO return home
so spent the night. The policeman,
Officer Heft, came along about IL
O'Clock and made an examination of
both premises without finding a trace.
And this week Mr.. Baldamus told The
PaliSadian that Mrs. Baldamus was
very much against remaining in the
village without more assurance that
the burglars would be scared away
and kept away. She is very nervous,
he said
Speaking of the occurrence, Mr.. Bal
damuS said to The PaliSadan:
All this is very strange and outra-
geous TO happen in our village. l don't
understand it. Somebody is asleep.
1t is very annoying TO have ones home
entered and ones family all with shat
tered nerves from fright. A burglar is
Il very serious and menacing problem,
and we don't seem 10 be able TO solve
ours the least hit"
Mrs. Eldredge said II don't like 10
talk about the matter. My nerves are
all unstrung. l have felt meaSurably
safe here with my dog all the time.
Now | am nOnpluSsed. Sunday Mil
dred and | spent in Brooklyn. As we
were going to the Junction about 10 40
strange old man, tall and slender,
carrying a small suit case, came along
just as we got to Dorincourt road.
He asked me the way to the Union
Church | told him to follow lady
saw going in the direction of the
church. ! am told that Mrs. Sibley
spoke to this man at the church and
that he Informed her he was stranger
and just happened in. Somebody tells
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