AFTER TEN YEARS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 20

AFTER TEN YEARS

MYSTEEY OF A DESERTED HOUSE

SOLVED.

After ten years tho mystery of a house with darkened and fasiened windows and bolted doors in Thirty-fifth •treet, in Now York, was recently solved. Since 1916 no one h&3 been known to enter tho house, a most valuable property adjacent to. the home of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. Neighbours noted a light in the upper rooms, and telephoned to the police, who found that a door had been forced. The rooms were covered with a thick layer of dust, and thus the police saw at once that there were newly-made fingor-marks on the rich furniture and footprints on the heavy carpets. • They followed the tracks upstairs to the third floor, in the centre room of which they found the contents of a number of trunks emptied on the floor, which was heaped ■with silverware, jewels, gold coins,, and bank notes. Hearing a noise in a cupboard, a policeman fired a shot, and out jumped three boys under 17. The lads admitted having forced an entry earlier in the'day, out of curiosity. Amazed to find so much wealth, they were unable to make up 'their, minds whether they should steal any or leave it behind. The police counted £5000 in cash, and estimated tho value of the jewellery and silver at £50,000. The boys were taken to the Police Court. Inquiries showed that the house belonged to two eccentric elderly spinsters named Herzog. They abandoned the house and their American pro-Ally friends in the war, and went to live in a, Fourth Avenue hotel, where they refused to make friends with anybody. The police are in a quandary what to do, as the Misses Herzog refuse to prosecute the boys.