Foreign House Ransacked: Cups and Carvings and Money Successfully Stolen A daring and successful burglary was committed at the residence tf Messrs. T. and S. M. Wallace, No. 327 Avenue Joffre on Friday night, -presumably about 12.45 a.m., when thieves made their entry to the house through the small window of the smoking room and collected and took away from the lower rooms of the house a quantity of silverware, including trophies won in sports, picture frames and cups, brass and bronze ware, and a number of ivory ornaments, in addition to four overcoats, Not content with the booty secured downstairs, one or more of the thieves entered the bedroom in which Mr, T. Wallace was sleeping, and without making sufficient noise to awaken him, abstracted from the pockets of hig clothing $95 in. money. None of the: occupants of the house was aroused, nor did any of the servants, who live in separate quarters, hear any sound. The thefts were discovered by one of the house servants who went to clean the lower rooms at six o'clock on Saiturday morning.
As most of the silver trophies stolen hoax the names of either or S. M. Wallace, they should be easy to trace, if they have not Keen melted down in ithe meantime, The cupboard in the dining room, which contained most of the silverware, had evidently been forced open with a chisel.
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