“For several years past,” began Mr. Bathurst, “the city and many of the wealthier suburban towns have been undergoing a systematic overhauling. Through the network of big thefts, and little thefts, petit larcenies and bank robberies, there has run one clear-cut burglarious specialty—a style of depredations noticeably similar in case after case; alike in ‘design and execution,’ and always baffling to the officers.
BATHURST TELLING THE STORY.
“I allude to a series of robberies of jewelry and plate, a succession of provoking thefts, monstrous, enough to be easily traced, but executed with such exceeding finesse that, in no single instance, has the property been recovered, or the robbers run to earth.
finesse“These fastidious thieves never took money in large amounts, only took plate when i
