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What Central Office detectives and the police of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Police Station say is the neatest job of safe-breaking they have seen in recent years was Committed a few nights ago in L.A. Ware’s bakery, at 2,268 Seventh Avenue. Mr. Ware has a good-sized safe in the rear of the store.

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When Mrs. Henrietta Marbe returned from her summer home at Long Beach, Long Island, at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon and opened her door on the second floor of the Holland Court Apartments, 315 and 317 West Ninety-eighth Street, close to Riverside Drive, she saw two straw hats lying on the bed in her room, which was visible from the front door.

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The morning papers furnish detailed accounts of the burglary committed on Tuesday night by Arthur and Luther Foster, twin brothers, and students at Phillips Andover Academy, in the commission of which Arthur was fatally shot by Abial Wilson, whose residence they had entered.

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The leader of the three burglars who robbed the American Express Company’s office here on the night of April 26 of 30,000 francs has been arrested. His name is George Miler, and he was born in Chicago. Another of the burglars has been arrested at Amiens.

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Burglars climbed on a stepladder from the roof of a four-story building at 174 Lafayette Street to the roof of a six- story loft building at 142 and 144 Grand Street, just a block away from Police Headquarters, early yesterday morning, and tearing away several beams descended with a coil of wire rope to the upper hallway.

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Burglars early last night entered the building 502 Third Avenue, broke into the dental offices of Dr. George H. Modemann on the second floor, and blew off the door of the safe in the main reception room. They worked so clumsily, however, that they not only failed to force an entrance to the safe, but alarmed the neighborhood for two blocks around by the explosion and set fire to the offices.

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Every castle and country house in Cheshire is ringing with merriment and English society generally is greatly amused over the “great robbery” perpetrated Thursday by members of the Duke of Westminster’s Christmas house party at Eaton Hall, who selected for their field of operations Cholmondeley Castle, the historic seat of the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Lord Great Chamberlain of England.

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A number of burglaries were committed in the two of Davenport, Delaware County, recently. John Ruff, a suspicious person, was suspected of being concerned in them. A warrant was issued for his …

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Three men, who were admitted to the Strand Moving Picture Theatre at Fortyseventh Street and Broadway at 2 o’clock yesterday morning when they said they were Headquarters detectives seeking a $10,000 lavalliere lost in the theatre, held up the watchmen and four men who were at work in the theatre and kept them guarded for three hours while they blew open the safe and extracted its contents.

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About 7 o’clock yesterday morning, as Roundsman McKELVEY, of the Twenty-seventh Precinct, was patrolling the posts covered by his platoon, he discovered 34 pieces of black silk, valued at $7,500, piled up behind a door leading into the tenement house No. 158 Greenwich-street.

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The accomplished burglar of the period is evidently upon his mettle, as his latest achievement at Port Jervis proves. In view of this case, with the Boylston burglary and the Ocean Bank operation and others, tho fact may as well be recognized that most banks are vulnerable

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In this Court yesterday, before City Judge McCUNN, Patrick McCarty, alias Burns, indicted for burglary in the third degree, pleaded guilty of an attempt, and was sent to the Penitentiary for two years.

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In this Court, before Judge MCCUNN, yesterday, John Cordon, indicted for burglary, pleaded guilty in the third degree, and was sentenced to State Prison for five years, the Court remarking, in passing sentence, that a person like the prisoner, with the advantages of health and youth to assist him in gaining an honest livelihood, had no claim for sympathy, and deserved the full penalty of the law.

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Detectives arrested three burglars early this morning as they were about to blow open the safe in the offices of the Rockefeller Institute, at Sixty-sixth Street and Avenue A, in which there was more than $5,000. The men were caught as they were inserting nitroglycerine in two holes they had drilled in the front of the safe.

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William J. Aiken, the man who, while a Police officer in the Eighteenth Precinct, com- mitted so many daring and successful burglaries, startling the City, bringing discredit on the Police, and causing householders to fear that even the men who were paid for guarding their property were thieves, was tried, yesterday, on one of the numerous indictments against him in the Court of General Sessions, before Judge Bedford.

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In the arrest of Edward Brown and Philip H. Simons, both negroes, by Detective Sergeants Reap and Fogarty of Capt. Titus’s staff, yesterday, the police say they have apprehended the perpetrators of numerous robberies which have occurred during the past year in the vicinity of Forty-first and Forty-second Streets and Fifth and Madison Avenues.

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Between the hours of 7 and 11 A.M. yesterday the office of D. and D.W. Morgan, brokers, situated in the basement beneath the Fifth National Bank, on the south-west corner of Thirdavenue and Twenty-third-street, was entered by burglars, the safe blown open with nitro-glycerine, and robbed of money and stamps to the amount of $1,600.

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The Seventy-stventh Anniversary of American Independence, was celebrated yesterday with considerable spirit. At sunrise, noon and sunset, national salutes were fired by Mayor POWELL, at Fort Green.

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Broadway strollers were surprised at Thirty-fourth Street at 9 o’clock last evening to see a quietly dressed man speak to Policeman Perigo of the West Thirtieth Street Station, who then approached a well-dressed aristocratic looking young man who was walking with the throng, when the latter broke into a run and dashed south, with the policeman after him.

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Following a chase which led over roofs, across ten-foot chasms between buildings and up and down fire escapes, detectives of the West Thirtieth Street Station early this morning arrested three Negroes charging them with burglary.

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