Burglary in a Catholic Church.

New York, 1895

It was discovered on Monday that sometime during Sunday night burglars paid a visit to St. Joseph's Catholic church on Lefferts' avenue, Morris Park. They gained an entrance by forcing open the door of the vestry room at the rear of the church. They blew open the safe, which was in the vestry room completely wrecking it, but got nothing for their trouble. Father Maguire had all the money at his home. Nothing else was disturbed. The burglars left behind them a quantity of powder, a dark lantern, and a jimmy.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 8.