Show performed the work with skill of professionals new york auga two boys in knickerbockers attempted yesterday to loot in west eighty fourth street they forced an entrance with all the care and skill of experienced burglars but were caught as they emerged through the front door carrying cari ying a bag in which were jewelry cigars camera birns memorandum books and thimbles in the loot was a valuable pearl necklace the entire fot is valued at 1000 the boys are both from good families and their parents were thunderstruck when summoned to the policed station and told of their exploits one was 12 years old and the other 14 neither would say much about their exploit but took no pains to show they were proud of it A passerby who was mabo suspicious by the actions of the two boys was instrumental in their capture he called three policemen arto on investigation vesti gation found that tha boys had pried open a trap door on the root and broke through a heaby alro screen beneath with a rope ladder they then descended and ransacked the house whose owner was absent in the country two detectives ano had been posted at the front door captured the youthful burglars anen they sallied out with armloads arm loads ot spoils |