New-York tribune., 1922-09-20
Day Burglars
Loot 2 Homes
Near 5tIl Ave.
Force Basement Gaic nj Resi-
dence OF :. Seligmann ON
+. 77ih and Gut Through,
Wall of Leo Nune's House
Take All They Can Carry
Three Previous Attempts at
Rbbery Reported; Truck
Used 10 Cart OFF SpoiIs

A gang Of burglars, working tn
daylight, loQted tho houses at 52 and
81 East Seventy seventh Street, just
off Fifth Avenue, last Saturday. it was
learned yesterday. They obtained en-.
trance by forcing an iron basement
gate at No. So, and then cutting
hole three feetin diameter between the
two houses which they ransacked The
victims arc stiIi taking inventories 90
ascertain tho extent of their losscs.
The homes robbed were those Of
Siegfried seligmann. an importer, liv.
ing at No. 62, and Leo Nunes. OF No.
%. They had been closed for tho SUM
mer, boarded up, and were protected
by private patrolmen. Three previous
attempts TO get into the Seiigmann
home had been unsuccessful.
"My house was ransncked from
garret to cellar,' Mr.. Selgmnnu said
lust night. IS s1me of the loss may be
covered by Insurance.
Overlooked Nothing
Mrs. Nunes said the robbers hade
"a mess of my house The thieves
overlooked nothing they could carry
away. They ripped the fur Off gar
ments, took lingerie, linens. everything
they could lay their hands on"
Mr.. and Mrs. Seligman and their
daughter Mrs. Charlotte Linden, who
lives with them, closed their homo last
March when they sailed for Europe.
They returned in July and went to
their country lome Mt Mount Pleas
ant. Mr.. and Mrs. Nunes, who were
spending the simmer in the country,
returned to their town house often,
and Mrs Nunts said she she found
everything intact last Thursday.
business associate OF MIR Selig-
man at 2d2 Fourth Avenue said last
night:
when Mr.. Seligmsnn went to Eu-
rope he left the keys of his house
with me. Three times during the sum
mer / was awakened by a private pa
trolman, who toid me robbers had at
tempted to get into the house. When
Mr.. Seligmann returned he had the
doors and gates repaired. The rob-
bers persisted and finally cut their
way through
Believe Truck Was Used
1t is believed that the robbers backed
truck up to the entrance of one of the
homes Saturdav and loaded it with
the goods and jewelry they had stolen.
A patrolman reported to Captain
Duane, OF the East Sixty-seventh
Street police station, at $3.50 p. m.
Saturday, that the gate Of the Selig-
mann house was open. An investiga-
fruitless so far, particularly in a min
,,fo hunt Tpuprnrtptg
Police admitted yesterday that
burglars had entered and robbed the
apartment of Walter S. Reed, vice
president of the American Ore Recla-
nation Company at 420 West End Ave
nue. early Sunday morning. The
burglars stumbled by accident upon a
closet which held two cases Of ra~e
Scotch whisky and other cases OF
choice wines. They ceased prowling
long enough to stage wild party IN
the place. When they departed they
took the liquors with them, as we'll as
silverware and other valuahles esti-
mated to be worth 100000
Mr.. Reeds Offices are at II Broad
way. He went home early Saturday
afternoon and prepared for a trip 20
old son. The Reeds dismissed then,
servants for the week end and took
west-bound train carly SATURDAY.
evening.
Some time during the early morning
hours the buglars forced the en-
ployees' entrance to the apartment and
robbed it. Evidences found later led
the police to believe that the burglars
had packed up silverware, clothing ana
shoes.
The dsordered condition of the
apartment, together with a scattered
collection of glasses and empty bottles,
indicated that the burglars had pause d
in their mad plundering long enough
to get comfortably intoxicated.
What they could not consume on the
premises the providers took with them
IN an automobile, the tracks of which
were discernible at the curb. They
also took everything else of value tn "
could find The police have telegraphed
Mr.. Reed for an inventory in an at
tempt to fix his loss, but he answere /
that he could not tell just what had
and had not been taken until he re-
turns to New York.
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