NORTH END RAIDERS.

Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 2

NORTH END RAIDERS.

A number of very impudent robberies wore perpetrated in the neighborhood of Pelichet Bay on Wednesday night, and are at present engaging the attention of the police. The principal victims were a Mr and Mrs Barton, who had only that day been married, and on arriving at their house shortly after midnight were amazed to find that one room had been completely ransacked and a quantity of effects removed. Whoever the culprit was, he had known his maik, and was evidently acquainted with the circumstances of the occupants of the house. An entrance had been gained by forcibly opening the back door, the fastening of which was found to have been broken. A clean sweep had been made of the bedroom, almost every movable thing available having been taken, even to the matting from off the floor. The stolen articles include bedclothes, ladies’ wearing apparel, d’oyleys, some crockery, a table coyer, and a silver teapot. Some of these things were marriage presents, and others were the results of some months of labor by Mrs Barton. No time was lost in informing the police of the occurrence, and since then, the detectives have been busy investigating the affair, but so far have made no arrests. It is surmised that the robbery took place early in the evening, and color is given to this by the fact that the person who occupies the adjoining one of Mr Eggera’s cottages in Forth street to that occupied by Mr Barton heard someone in the house before nine o’clock in the evening in question, but took no notice of it, naturally concluding it was Mr Barton or some of his friends.

The same night the premises of Mrs Nimmo, in Albany street, and of Mr Roscow, in Harbor terrace were invaded, and the clothes lines stripped of their contents. Fortunately in each ease no articles of value had been left out, so that the depredators only got some things which, while doubtless an inconvenience to the owners to lose, were only of secondary importance. These robberies were also reported to the police. It is evident that the three robberies mentioned are the work of the same individuals, and circumstances tend towards the theory that the thieves are not of the professional criminal class. It is expected that the investigations of the police will result in some revelations being made in the manner of the procuring and disposing of stolen property of the description mentioned above.