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Show THIEVES GET LARGE SUM Clever Cracksmen Get Big Haul of Jewelry Jewel-ry and Diamonds New York, Mar. IK. An East Side 1 burglary, perpetrated by clever cr.icksmcn sometime today, netted j tbc-. thieves tho largest haul obtained In New York City in many years Matin Simons and Sons, pawnbrokers iu Hester street, were the victims, aud the property stolen includes 000 worth of jewelry, diamonds and other precious stones and $100,000 worth of negotiable securities. The thieves gained access to the pawnbrokers' richly stored vaults by I means of a tunnel from an abutting building on a neighboring street 1 They made a clean getaway with their valuable loot The police are of the opinion that six cracksmen i were employed on the Joh and that the tunneling required all of last night h nel the creater part of Sunday morning It is their belief that the actual robbery took place this after- i uoon, while hundreds of persons wore patting along the street iii front of ih pawnshop None of the tenants i 'In either the building from which the tunnel started, or that in which the I pawnshop is located, heard any nn-tis"al nn-tis"al noises. JanltrcRs peering through the window ot the shop bite this ulter-1 ulter-1 noon noticed the litter near the vault land gave the alarm. The police found that the tunnel was hogun in the cel-lar cel-lar of a house In Aldrldge street, directly di-rectly adjoining Simons' place It vus driven through the wall of the Aldrldge street house and into a wood ,in ,n the cellar in the Simons store There leading up into the pawnbrokers' pawn-brokers' shop, is a flight of stairs. Thev are wired for a burglar alarm, however and the thieves avoided them and sawed awav the overhead flooring at a spot directly in front of the treasure vault. The vault, which 'stands twelve feet high and which was built into the wall, was entered bv chopping away n" masonry. 1 oo |