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Show BANDITS LOOT RICH DWELLING Couple and Seven Servants i Bound in Most Daring-Daylight Daring-Daylight Robbery N'RW YORK. April ?. Tho most amazing daylight robbery New York i s known In many years Occurred ; Sunday in the home of Albert It. Sbatttick, retired flnanr lor. 1 9 Washington Wash-ington Square north, when four armed arm-ed bsVndltS overpowered Mr and Mrs. ShattUcK and their seven servants, and bound them all with tope, locked i them in a w ine cellar and stole Jew-' Jew-' elry Valued St $90,000. The robbers ransacked the dwelling for an hour and a half, but as they I ware leaving one was captured and. ! In an DVerooal ho had abandoned In his High! through Washington Square I jewelry v alued at 20000 was found. I The alarm was Riven by the but-I but-I ler. who fr-ed himself from his bonds ind. running to a neighbor's house Willie the thieves were still at work. telephoned the police. Racing In a Uurjoab to the Shdt-tuek Shdt-tuek home, the police arrived as the four robbers were leaving. They scattered as they fled, pursued pur-sued by hundreds in the square: Three "raped. si K 1NTS VI i. IN N E :. The seven servants two butlers 0 door in ii'. three maids and a cook were at dinner in the pantry on the basement floor when one of the roi-bers roi-bers gained admitttanoe to the house on pretense that he was In urgent ni id of a telephone. Mr. ShattUOk who I past 60, was seated In the library and Mrs. Shaf-tuck Shaf-tuck In the llvlntr room adjolnlnrr. Neither knew what was going on In the basement whenthc robbers were ad mitted. Tho servants dropped their knives and forks In fright as tho four intruders in-truders covered them with revolvers and ordered them to hold up their hands an, I make no nolfo. Rope was then obtained from a storeroom near the pantry and the hands of each wen fed behind their backs. Three of the servants then were marched to the wini collar and tho other four to a vault on tho same floor, and all were locked In. OWNERS ATTACH I D, Tho :iorvants disposed of, two of the robbers erept up the stairs to the fir-t floor nnd surprised Mrs. Shat-tuek Shat-tuek first. Her screams brought her husband to aid her He was confronted con-fronted by a robber who pointed his weapon tit the elderly millionaire with tho warning. 1 Not a .-ound." Ono bandit pressed a revolver against Mr Shattuck's chest and the other stuck his weanon ut his back. "NOW march, downstairs." was the next command and with Mrs. Shar tuck leading the way. they descended to the basement where they were ordered to stop before tho cellar door. The robbers bound the financier's finan-cier's hinds. reopened the vault whTe Its other pCCUpantS were huddled hud-dled in fright, cast master and mistress mis-tress among them, and slammed the door. The bandits then proceeded to ran-ai ran-ai '. rl , house from basement to garret. gar-ret. For more than an hour they searched the rooms on every floor of the richly furnlshod dwelling. Leisurely they gathered their loot, most of w hich. It was Bald, had been taken from a safe which had been forced open. BUTLER GIVES ALARM. Charles Zuug, head butler, finally managed to free his hands after an hour's tugging, untied his fellow prisoners pris-oners and. by manipulating th lock-he lock-he told the police, opened the door slightly and Deeped out to sc- if any of the bandits were near The four were upstairs collecting their loot. Z.iug. followed by his assistant, reached the street. Hp ran to the home of a neighbor and the police were summoned by telephone. The last of the quartet was coming com-ing down the front steps when the police arrived. This man was raptured rap-tured after a short chase. He gave the name r Eugenip Dlasol a Sptn-Ish Sptn-Ish tailor. He refu-jed to tell who his companions were. Mr. ShattUCk'fl residenco is on tho north Pide of tho square between Fifth avenue nnd MarDougal street, one of the oldest fashionable colonies colo-nies in the city. The dwelling contains con-tains many art trisure and valuable valu-able ap.Uo.uea which were roughly handled by the robbers in their hunt for portable booty. Mr. Shattuek Is ono of the oldest living Settlers In the square. He w a formerly president of tho liritbh-Amerlcan liritbh-Amerlcan Mortgage company. Mrs. Shattuek was Under the care of physicians, suffering from shoi!: ami nervousness. |