Gary
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Post by Gary on Apr 19, 2006 5:19:25 GMT -6
Thanks very much for the information. It alway's amazes me when people can come up with new information!
Thanks again,,,,,,,,,,Gary
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Post by Rabble on Apr 20, 2006 18:47:05 GMT -6
Hi Gary, I have sent you an email with more information. Regards Ron
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Post by Rabble on Apr 20, 2006 19:36:22 GMT -6
NY Times September 9 1884. "Up to last night no clue had been discovered as to who stole a purse and watch from Mrs. George A. Custer’s apartments, in the Stuyvesant Flats, at Third Avenue and Eighteenth Street, during the fire on Sunday morning. The police said that they had not been given notice of the theft, except through the newspaper reports and consequently were not working on the case, and had no theory concerning it. Mrs. Custer said she was sorry that the implication had been conveyed by the printed accounts of the fire that the articles had been stolen by firemen. She herself had never thought of accusing the firemen of the theft. When her sister, herself, and maid ran out of the house, immediately after the discovery of the fire, they were met on the sidewalk by a man of suspicious appearance who seemed to be somewhat intoxicated, though he may have only been feigning. In their fright they left both the door of their own apartment and that of the main entrance open. Her maid saw the man referred to enter the flat before the arrival of the police and the firemen, and she was inclined to think that he was the thief. A woman, who, the police said, was a sneak thief, was discovered in Agent McCann’s apartment in the adjoining building, where the lady refugees from the burning building were temporarily assembled on the invitation of Mr. McCann. Some of the ladies had caught up valuables in their flight and still held them in their hands. The woman referred to had just offered to relieve one of the ladies of the articles she held in her hands when a policeman entered and hustled her out after making her restore the articles the their owner. After the police arrived they kept a very strict watch on the premises, and refused to allow anybody to enter, even occupants of the apartments, until the fire was entirely extinguished. The firemen attributed the theft to sneak thieves, of whom they say there is an organized gang that makes business (?) of getting to fires before the arrival of the firemen and the police. Hugh Bonner, Acting Chief of the Fire Department, said yesterday that he could not order any investigation into the theft of a watch and a purse in the apartments of General George A. Custer’s widow, at the Stuyvesant Flats, at the time of the fire Sunday morning. At the same time he would be alert to discover and punish any thief in the department, and the police would receive all possible aid from him if they required any. But he could not help characterizing as infamous the inference attempted to be drawn from the fact that certain engine companies which were at the Stuyvesant flats fire on Sunday, were also at the St. George’s flats fire in April, when much property was stolen. Chief Bonner added that he did not believe that the man who robbed Mrs. Custer’s apartments was a member of the Fire Department."
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