The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1905, Page 12

“BURGLAR Young John Baskin Thorne Re- | veals Secret of His Remark- able Success, DUE TO “GIFT OF GAB.”’! Nervy Youth Tells How He Robbed Homes While Pos: ing as Guest. AAR EAGO SOseseesensessacscennaacans SINGS FOR SEVERAL VICTIMS “New York Is a Good Sucker Mar ket,” He Says—Calls Brookiyn Hospitality Great. By W. A. Willis. Mr. John Baskin Thorne is the name of an exceedingly affable young man who occupies a cell on the second tier of the Essex County Jail, in Newark The mere announcement of this fact would not convey any great i rest | to New Yorkers were it not for the; fact that Mr, Thorne, under a series of aliases too long to recount, ts the bland young man who within the pa few months has robbed the houses of more than a score of people in this | derongh and Brooklyn, | Mr, Thorne confesses this much, and | 4s glad. or affects to be, that in his downfall he ts able to make at least | partial restitution to some of his vic tims. Mr. Thorne's satisfaction with his career is not based at all on the @ggregate valuo of the loot he has ac- quired during several months of opera- tion. What he is particularly proud of is the success of his exploitation of @ theory he held. Mr. Thorne, although but twen years old, and comparatively Perlenced in the ways of concluded some time ago that socle was In a state of such credulity that @ man with nerve could fleece !t at his leisure with the greatest of ease. | Needs No Nerve Tonic. | The late Chauncey Johnson was, ac- | cording to Byrnes, New York's greatest thief taker, the nerviest crook that ever operated in this count: Jonn- son got his repwiation vecause of the sheer gull that he possessed He had nothing in his whole career on Mr, John Baskin Thorne. Twenty houses in Manhattan and the Bronx, twelve in New Jersey and three | dn Brooklyn is the record of Mr. Thorne's illegal entrances, and in not one case did he stoop to enter by any gave the front door, and then only after ringing the bell and sending in his name. Out in New Jersey, where they caught this youth that the Ne York police couldn't catch, they have dubbed him a Raffles, He isn’t a thing of the sort. He 1s a gentleman burglar, ali right, and had the cheer- ful habit of singing and playing the Piano for his victims before despolling them; but he never stayed in one place Jong enough to be a real unadulter- ated Raffles, and he never robbed in a dress sult. Likes to Talk of Exploits. ‘One of the cheerful things about Mr. | Thorne 1s his excessive candor, He Ukes to talk about the way he fooled People, and regards his experiences as | @ Valuable contribution to the work of sociologists, | was behind the ribbon cou think of thay for a centlfman, it out for a few weeks, and then, about |six months | try a while, | FABAASAOAASAAAD AS BAAMEEE DOA EAOMEEEAEAEDORAEERA BAD ¢ As WED Ly - ] Dg eee THE Tiompon Z CHILD OF HACKENSACK THINKS HE 15 z P4 & .7 SHOWS I'T HOW a TO MaKe Mup Pies, e idddddbb dba bh dh btbaticirrckircrree PSFIFSTSITFIIITSTS WOMAN SAYS NERVY THIEF’S STORY OF ROBBERY IS TRUE, Mrs. F. H. Leonard, of No, 95 Brooklyn avenue, Brooklyn, con- firmed to-day that recital of young Mr. Thorne as to how he looted her home. The only di crepancy is in the amount of loot, which Thorne fixes at about $100. Mrs. Leonard estimates her loss at over $500. BY MRS. F. H. LEONARD, The young man {s certainly remarkable for cool nerve. I have read of ‘teves in fiction who did astounding things, but I constder his performance in our house a record-breaker. My husband and T went out on the afternoon of Aug. 15, leaving the house in charge of our old and confidential maid, Mrs. Davenport. The weather was quite threatening, so we told her that we might be back soon We had not been gone five minutes when a tal! young man of good appear- ance rang the bell and asked if Mr. Leonard was at home. Mrs, Davenport replied that he had just etepped out with his wife, but as rain threatened she expected that he might return any minute. “It's funny that Frank should go out after writing o'clock," eaid the stranger. "I'll walt for him {f I mas Just consider that ihe had been told that Mr. Leonard and I mieht return at any minute. He went into the parlor and talked with Mrs, Davenport about the weather, Then hewalked to the plano and plays. two or three c.as- sical airs with the greatest deliberation. Finally he began to look over (he books on the shelves, and Mrs, Daven- port legt him to go to the kitchen. When she came back he was gone. Rain was pouring down by) that time, but he didn't mind the rain because he had Mr. Leonard's rain coat and my uinbreila. In a quick trip through the house he got all the money and jewelry in It, ie to come there at ¥ ack to my home in P house in th lor listening to y me. without any special career cu: out for | Then I asked permission to read awhile, me. I decided to do something, and | and they ali took the hint and left, I the first thine that came my way was a place in a Pittsubre department store. r. Ugh! I stuck | Went upstairs, got about $50 worth of ff and vamoosed. ‘There was another place in Brook- lyn where I had an amusing exper- ence. I worked the same old engage- ment plea, and after I had put in an hour trying to get somthir of the house came down and asked me Moral Make-Up Wrong. if I wouldn't like something to read, suppose there 1s something wrong] “I tuld her I had bad eyes, she said she would read to me. a~@), decided that I would to make the world support me for Mr. Thorne ts physically everything | with my moral make-up, for I turned to She began that he ought not to be. He is a tall, |crime wih astonishing ease. I figured to read and she kept me there half an thin man, with blg innocent brown |out that !f a man w tit right he | hour, and me trembling every minute eyes, a lot of fine brown hair, the gen- | could have a long cd with great |for fear her husband would come home eral bearing of a gentleman, and not| Profit to hin ty Pa 80 FA Tn leat pad oe Es She read me out of that hose phy re dollar good clothes and all job, and I have never bee: dof ons phy sles) maria! with whlch | AC#r oN tees eould command, came [er abe ia ot Goce Heenan: Lombroszo credits the hereditary Anal. He 1s a youth with a remarkable gift of tongue, so remarkable ‘hat he had no diMculty in introducing hinisel! {1:0 families suscessfully, althoug on the most ridiculous of terms. ky the in- cessant use of the musical voice with which Nature endowed him and an Sngenulty in ingratiating himself with strangers he was able to do things the mere relation of which would make @ professional thief’s hair stand on end, Folks Easy to Rob. They caught Mr, Thorne in Mont- @lair, just after he had wiped out the fhome of a Mr. Solomon Wright. He Was such a prize that they held him in Montclair as long as they could. Then they sent him to the jail in Newark, and it was on the way there yesterday @ftemoon that Thorne chatted gayly of his few months us a thief, Zam afraid 1 have imposed out Fagcously on quite a number of peopl he said without the slightest show of affectation. ‘But when, when you find them #0 easy what in the world are you going to do? I have robbed because | foynd that it was casy. I have been Maken red-handed, and there is nothing for me to do bul confess my guilt, What mes me is tha: I #hould have been through sheer carelessness, for was nothing else, ‘Well, briefly, Uhe way I started out this: I was educated at college OF not One thing is sure, I 4 ,|9 hing at that place. You know you can find more ‘marks’ in New York than anywhere else in the| | Gets Two Waldorf Clocks, world, You can get trimmed here as}, pete ano T came to Mann na z a 0 ty Tere e castiy as anywhere else, but New York | New York for a trial after New Jersey fs 8 great sucker market. I made my |gets through with me, so I will not firs: play in Brooklyn. I am not going | *#y Whose places I entered there, but there were about twenty al se to mentlon any nhmes, because the |most of them were om Bortratii rae people must be sufficiently didn't get o New York. humiliated | Fitty-fourth street and Wast End weet now, but I read in a Brookyn paper |". 1 maced the Hotel Imperial fora , bo} | board’ bill, but that was cheap work how a certain prominent German, who and i am hot Proud of it. lives on St, Mark's avenue, had gone ne laughable thing I at West for several weeks, so I braced | 70. the Waldort=asoria of two “alocks, right up to tis house and asked for him. | it?" Just on my nereey 1 aot io ae I was informed of his absence trom | hotel one att ent up to one of town and expressed great regret, eaying | Lie SWoll a uniments and took “the 1 was a relative from Germany, who hd | to nee if anyone was Mra eres just arrived here and was anxious to|!t under my ™ connect with some of my family. | one hindered arm and walked out, ‘No ¢findered me tor a moment. Raoeived (ith (Open Arie: [lock i'the 3 ‘ “Well, I give you my word, the best Ino idea how easy it Is wien ae ye hour as good expected was to get inside that place | the nervy or a few hours at the most. What did OS RAFFLES SURELY GOT they do but receive me with open arms. TWO WALDORF CLOCKS, later and got another same way, only this wasn’ ‘They swallowed everything I told them, 1 didn't have to invent to any extent. Anything went, I told some the most preposterous ta.es that ev: came from a man's mouth, and they By Manager Barse, of the took them in with a solemnity that was Waldorf- Astoria. almost too much for my sense of humor, "I stayed with the family three days. They killed the fatied calf-for me, ‘Dhey gave me the best room in the house, and were so sorry father wasn't home to make me welcome, I knew that father's return was my finish, so when | they got a letter from him one day, saying he would be back in three days, I cleaned up tthe place and got out. "I got @ number of scarfpins and watches there, and I assure you I hated to take them, but It was a matter of rasan ae the Long Lost Son, business. I was certain.y very well use wer house I walked in on treated there, and also in other places | Smeg ete of dthsy“afwang with an in the borough; and I tell you Brooklyn initite a Tong lost son, ‘The only thing Hospitality 1» not a thing to apoag |E Nad to worry was that thelr ao tude Mighty’ of, with nay work. + “metmes Intertered Sings for His Victims, “Nevér once in New York, in tact amywhere, did ? Th “Later I went to the house of Mr. F. T meet the min of the H, Leonand, at No. % Brooklyo avenu thing as a strange: the room floors never happened befor PT ever happenea How this man did it 1 do not know; I only know that the clocks were tak: houre. wi athe Woh ust ny Wek, but 1 think ind I ve lady | I’ went | seeeescease beesesege CFISPIISITIIFSSIS FF oF that made my heart anything that career wa Dana, at Newark. be: Robber Remains for Dinner. I give lived th Jrold and I with their pre ji stood it didn't return. house I fel ten pounds. ever accept. Makes json in 1 told t the c lay with It le everything in that’ could Macy? 8 sorry about | robbed them, stuff T took tha habit of wasn't nailed me on a’ troll camera and had have got me. be ones that you ination m. “T hi talked myself think J must | Thorn Js 0 “I went there and I had gro | t if the ge was in and she lover at the lib to me Sing. She expres her hu a was not was all right. Then 5! mentarily expected. I “I got Into the house of John Thomp- Hackensac a a's uncle help taking an: taken from Mr. was no use in intelligent seen some of my victims since I was arrosted and they tell me that I n so bold no {dea ed th ere. upstairs anc pockets ty and my im a 1 Was the last dinner invitation I should Mud Pies for Girl. 1 sh d mo t> I made mud ples for it of the road and purpos solled that the ma ba n fifteen the De Tam not houses, | robhed in Brooklyn and Ma not but stealing recause I beccuse I got that T in my way dy Caught by Servant Girl. “A fool servant girl caught me Montclair, but a detective stum vlad over in ley car, and ag 1 had a ome other things I hod Wrights house there rotesting. If that girl never woulil In a game like the one I have played it ty not the intelligent want to look out for, but the ignorant ones; thelr range of {ins so narrow that they are liable to get suspictou talking in the world won't unpress and once they do ull into thelr confidence, T have a good gift of gab, for I have successfully hoodwinked a number of women. medel privoner, but #0 olly that even his guards have to be careful to prevent talked into carelessnesi be tried within two weeks, and it | sald tant more complainants’ will against him than evor appeared @ men arrested in New J themselves belny ‘The man wi!) ts pear alnst. ‘8eY, MISS ROOSEVELT - TOASTED BY OM Corean Emperor’s Consort En- tertains Foreigners for the aga, ‘ago. To- Firet Time in the History of| [day there, are over 60 the Hermit Kingdom, BHOUL, Sept. 22.—Miss Alice Roosevelt day, Loc consort, who wi Propoued @ toast to Miss hroom Gnd wash | PINES Ar wr FOVFTIVIDITS FIITIFISS FISTSSTSTITITIFGD’ STABBED ASSAILANT OF SISTER 'David Serra Meets James Nelson in Restaurant and Affray Follows, that the man he assailed streated his sister, David Serra yoed and seriously wounded James 4, of No, 47 Hoyt street, in a rant at No, 335° Fulton ‘street, lyn, ea y ra ls ‘umber th rging re shed of a relative at enue & couple hours al abbing by Dete Bowen and Murphy | With a. party u mob err ¢ d the restaurant Jabour 2 o'clock. ‘The party had come {tr island, and in it were a couple women. Serra, at the ume, est of a friend Who owned t in two auto- minutes later Nelson entered pretty young woman. N. 1, did not see Serra, al- and several his seat to go apparently knew there between the two men. Nelson and his companion were leav- ing the restaurant when Serra went up to him end said: “1 suppose now you ro satisfied.” was An Instant later there was a blow from one of the men and Nelson was stabbed in the neck near the jugular vein. A.second blow almed at him with the knife was stopped by his hand, Ho) recelved the gash wctoss his palm |and, the automobiles being ready to go Serra climbed in and the party sped away. A ohat over ithe lower part of the elty followed, policemen And others try: fing to head’ off the autos wherever noastble. The automobilists apparently decided to give the Impression that they Wanted to get to Manhattan, but kept doubling about, showing they’ were ing to Teach #wome place in Brooklyn, Ketson, who had been taken. to” the Oumberland Hospital, where it was necessary to take fifteen stitches In his throat, refused t. remain there and want to bis home. The oung, wo man with him disappear ie re to tell why he had been attacked. ‘One of those who witnessed the cut- ting sald he had reooknized Serra, and after a vialt to home a messénger who atrived there was followed to ste Franklin avenue address, io the polloe Berra admitted the atab and said he hoped Nelson had He, was algned in the treet Court reed with felo- F PEARL LEMEABRAA MBAAROADAREELAARE REBBEAOARDAAAAS SE VIIFOVODIORIST > 99 FIVIFISSISSENTIOS VOPPIDIFIIGTSSTST FIVIFISITIG IES ‘SAYS SHE WILL - GARRY BULLET | AS SOUVENIR +——- Mrs, Morrill Laughingly Tells! Doctor She Will Not | Have It Removed. have been rs say me front it. auger of blood 3 @ fate, she could without hav! ~ TILL VICTIMS GAN APPEAR Samuel Goldmaz ight by after al in $23,000 ball each for emanitation to- | morrow. They were represented b | James Nug and Leo d_ Magistrate! McDermott the men were members of a Bang of cade:s and thieces, and asked that eld until the victims of the shoc able to appear, Law Yer Nugent objected, but the trate adjourned t se. ‘Juck" Kleti During the ro to be on the police ords as was dead and Pe Walter Miller, of the tion was given a fr a blow from a bla h street st skull with Mra. Flora Sn of Madison et, Tre the ankle, and Max of No. 168 East One H ind street, one in his thigh. the wounded’ are in Bellevue looting resulted from an at- by F to stop tn mbers of the gane. EXTRA SPECIAL, Saturday, Sept. 23 | $15 for $6. ult and was held in $500 ba! The Ware That Wears, LX umitations of Strauaky Kitchen Ware, _ ‘The inside Enamelofall and the women of her party attended a | Jourutenails | women's luncheon ut the palace Om, the Emperor's is called Die “By the Name You Know Them,” Elgin & Waltham. thei Jal” ehis i em |Fine imported black and - sts . Sat mavae: quail bits. chemo Fall kati tte | Silk pipime | ¢ ts 4 RIOTERS HELD ¥ Re Z Reif Meraradteg broke 116. 44th St., bet, Bway & Fifth Ay || oh ae ed 1520 Third Ave.,bet, 86th & 86th St. | values here this! 24 6.126 th St. bet.6 b & Madison Ay | week, } Anniversary Sale } ‘Children’s Apparel. bs Each of these special values has a meaning. » Our Misses’ and Children’s Department is a year m old to-morrow. We appropriately celebrate. ~ Grand Coliection of Saturday Bargains J $10 Girls’ Coats, > © ; $3.98 Newest Fall Styles, fee Ca aL fs stasoe broadtail velour coats, Sept. 22.—Mrs. ptte Converse ears! ‘ y Morrill, who was shot in her house Wine iad and high-grade Fall and on the Post road by a burglar ove: MS iis lot i. sash, ere mais week ago has recovered t "OS ee at pat llth she went out for a e this morning. 8 ° 29° Waite tan, ise, Dr. L, PB. Jones jas: night sali he/ ieaee Saver eR ee ee . noped to be able to remove the bullet $4.50 Girls’ Coats, $4.9 IE arent 168 youl” sald the: Store New Fall Style, said Mrs. Mo . ~ “ . the dandiest aou- Good quality, very — serviceable y nerouuly haves broadcloth. Lined throughout. nd with me Hen cetie eee Hie, t Sea $8 Piccadilly C Three-quarter Length, Handsome collection in coverts and cheviots, beautifully tailored, lined with tailor's serge. double row of «iit ove, and 14 years, Dainty Girls’ Dresses Specially Priced $5 Cashmere $4 98) $10 Man-o’-War $5 e Dresses, New Fall Suits, y Special for Saturday Only $5 Gold Glasses $1 Examination “of, Fyes by Specialists Free. THIS EXTRAOR RY OFFER IS FOR SATURDAY, *10.79 Value $16.75, for carved solid} golden oak China to buy 5,00 roa | |} ae Coe Farly and Avoid the Crowds t Brooklyn Stores; 560 Fulton St., near Rockwell Pl (O07 Broodway, nedr Wiltonghoy AV, bring this 1E, TH \)Carpets, Rugs, Mattings, Uphoisteries, Housefurnishings, in gigantic, handsome assortments. || Liberal Credit Given, A whole page of talk about Atterbury System Clothes | is not as convincing as one brief examination of the clothes themselves at the Lambert shop. For that examination proves them the equal y fine made-to-order garments, and yet they're only about half as expensive. Until they came there was no way of getting all mer. chantetailor goodne: | a reasonable price. | It's different now. “Ask the Man Who Wears Them." Fall Styles $20 to $45, Salesrooms 39 and 41 Cortlandt Street, Swagger tailoring needs a swagger hat to“topit — off.” Judge the hat, not the price— $Txz$ destined to be tho greatest Sale Palcted over held on Broadway. ‘We fer one gurneene inate ang ie every. tates . ‘vilied Cases, suaranteed for 20 100". ‘The pure the pri OnE, be allowed oy A felt oan’ baled tor joss than ‘810 the money’ will be ‘How We Do It, hat the mganervamase vette We at once ‘denvatohed “to London, where 'he ¢ Gunntitien of of Bome tii tham ai naland dr representa ur eer found such! to be successful In ‘buying he Bopulne ir je they we ¢ Bom off yeti eS Rott oe, br Stores: Shon Bole Agent. N° Hazen A BROADWAY Builder| netow ch ker Below 12th Sits Below Bsth Sty Below Maldon fame of $2 Hats, |- | Eyesight Examination—by an Oculist, a 4 Fagtevares physicist, whose specialty is ey