RICH MAN AS BURGLAR.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12408, 25 November 1908, Page 1

RICH MAN AS BURGLAR.

it - , * ''. As he sat on the lawn of his beau- ' tlful home at Rhinebeck, New York ii v h *s wife > Ws mother and his j baby Mr Herbert, Clark, Boil of a i wealthy grain merchant, w&s told i f hat , ° c was under arrest. He fainted, and was . revived, and was taken m a motor-car to Poughkeepsie Uaol. He is accused of iobbinz arid burning the house of Mr^ Robert Huntmgton, valued, with its furi nis J hln Pj' a * £15.000, last February ,and of having property in his homo stolen, from houses in and near Rhinebeck. Mr Clarke was 'devoted to his wife and child, and livedialife of leisure. He was devoted & books and art, and did many charitable acts. A tool-house at his own rosi;dence was burned recently, when [the police arrested Jihree youths iSf M B H d -^- at Mr Clark Reined to ' l^ r untm pon's mansion -before ! ffi g i*- °? * re> and took Dar * other burglaries. He gave them whisky and -W and fncouraged them to steal chickens for midnight leasts, which he shared.