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Show h u i5JiicLiiiJ-'l 1 aJc ' ' . ; ' , i " . Police Dllcd to Bank Daring Hteht Scssicn by Ac : cidental ToucMnr of Burglar Alarm. 4 NEW YORK, June 2. While the directors di-rectors of the Twelfth Ward bank, of which Thomas .J. Oilroy is president, were holding a meeting last night the sergeant of the West One Hundred and Twenty-6lxth street police station was heard to shoult out from behind his desk: "Call out the reserves: burglars at the bank!" . . Sergeant Darsey. the four plainclothes plain-clothes men of the precinct and Ave men in uniform rushed out to Lexington Lexing-ton avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. Where the bank is located. Once inside the building the force, revolvers and night ' sticks in hand, searched very nook and corner on the ground floor without discovering a trace of the burglars, and then started start-ed upstairs. When near the landing. Sergeant Darsey heard sounds as of men talking. The police; threw back the door of a room and rushed In. Immediately Im-mediately the .room was in confusion. Standing around a long table , were' a dozen men excitedly demanding the meaning of the Invasion- . . Investigation showed that a watchman watch-man had accidentally touched off the burglar alarm and caused the raid on the directors. 1 |