Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1874 — AN AUDACIOUS ROBBERY. [ARTICLE]

AN AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.

An Entire Family Hand-Cuffed and Placed Under Guard by a Gang of Thieves, Who Leisurely Ransack, the Premises and Drill into and Rob a Safe. It is not often that a man has the privilege of superintending the drilling of his own safe by burglars, but such an incident is within the experience of Mr. J. P. Emmet, of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. On the morning of the 23d, at 2:30 o’clock, four men clambered in aphis bedroom window. They roughly awakened him, and hand-cuffing his hands behind him, left one riian to guard him with a revolver. The others then similarly bound aeister, a nephew, two. domestics and,.a coachman. All were marched Into Mr. Emmet’* room and guarded with the utmost tenderness. Then the robbers ransacked bureaus, wardrobes and trunks for the safe key, but they were unsuccessful. The key had been left in New York. Unable to open the safe, which stood in the back parlor, they tried to blow it open. The blast blew outward instead of inward, and the door was unopened. Next they operated with drills, and made a hole large enough to admit a band. A quantity of jewelry and some money, estimated at S6OO in all, were extracted. Having taken everything valuable and portable, they wished Mr. Emmet and his family a pleasant good morning and politely took their leave. A few figures Will sometimes make thorough work with a newspaper sensation. One of the essayists at the recent meeting of the Public Health Association said that during the war there was a rumor that Southern emissaries intended to poison the drinking water of the city. He made a little calculation of the matter, and found that to poison the water supply of the city for a single day would reI quire 114 tons of arsenic, or three and a half tons of strychnine, of which there * was probably not a ton in the whole world. Light is generally considered by men of science as consisting in the propagation of vibrations or undulations in a subtle, elastic medium, or ether, assumed to pervade all space, and to be thus set iu vibrating motion by the action of luminous bodies, as the atmosphere by sonorous bodies. This theory is known as the w»didating or wave theory. This is substantially Prof. Tyndall’s belief, we brileve, as advocated in his Fragments of Science, though he is by no mentis the author of the theory.