A Daring Burglary.

Evening Star, Issue 6819, 5 February 1886, Page 2

A Daring Burglary.

A daring and successful burglary was committed on Sunday, December 6, on the premises of Herr Granischstadten, the court jeweller, in the Graben, Vienna, when property was stolen to the tune of L 25,000. The shop was open on Sunday until noon, and it is supposed (says the ‘St. James’s Gazette’) that the burglars must have commenced their operations towards nightfall, when the streets were deserted owing to rain. The amount of work that they did, the extent of their depredations, and the care with which they selected the most valuable articles of portable jewellery, prove that they must have spent a long time over the robbery. They were evidently well acquainted with the premises, for they effected an entrance through the blocked-up door in the outhouse. Having smashed the wooden partition, they twisted out the screws of the lock, prised the door open, and then fonud themselves iu the shop. The most valuable trinkets were deposited in three iron safes, fitted with the latest improvements, yet all three were burst open. The tools used for this purpose are said to have been of the finest English make. The robbery was not discovered till nine o’clock on Monday morning, when a servant came to unfasten the shutters and open the door. The shop was then seen to be strewn with heaps of silver, paper, and empty jewel cases. Up to December 10 no duo had been obtained to the perpetrators of the robbery, though Herr Granischstadten had offered a reward of 5 nor cent, value on all the articles that should be restored to him. The ‘ Times’s ’ correspondent in the Austrian capital says;—“ The burglary continues to cause immense excitement, for although Vienna is too well accustomed to great bank frauds, housebreaking is here a crime of very rare occurrence. The way in which houses arc built and the supervision which is generally exercised by thedoorporters, render the commission of burglary exceptionally difficult; and it is pretty certain, therefore, that the men who plundered Herr Granischstadten’s shop musk have had a thorough knowledge of the premises and of the proprietor’s habits. They must have been expert rogues, too, for they selected their booty with faultless judgment, and they actually had the coolness to remove the price ticket from each article and restore it to its empty case. It is owing to this precaution on their park that Herr Granischstadten has been able to make a catalogue of bis losses and to estimate the total so exactly.”