Harry C. Mann Photo
The lingerie shop at 794 Chapel St. was the latest hit by a daring crew of thieves who seem to have entered not from the rear of the building, but via a transom window beneath the full glare of street lights on the busy, commercial street.
The break-in occurred in the dead of night, according to the cops. While this brazen law-breaking continued, our town’s police chief was out of town having a good time checking out the world’s speediest cars at a fancy new race track in Sheepshead Bay, N.Y.
For details on what the thieves took from the C. and L. Daniker Corsetiere Shops, on Oct. 9, 1915 — and confusion between how the uniformed and detective branches of the cops handled the case in absence of the chief — join me for the latest episode of “This Day In New Haven History.” To time travel, just click on the audio below or find the latest episode in iTunes or any podcast app under “WNHH Community Radio.”
La Vie Parisienne, 1915
Today, we’re broadcasting from the Local History Room, a little treasure of New Haveniana off the rotunda at the library’s main branch. If you dropped by, you might have seen me time-traveling back to 1915 by reading from the Oct. 9 front page of the New Haven Evening Register, and trying to make believe I was right there.
There was not only the local news of the burglaries, but the increasingly disturbing news of World War One. And of course, continuing coverage of President Wilson’s pretty new fiancée, the widow Mrs. Norman Galt, who has been charming the public with “her lovely winsome eyes in which laughter incessantly lurks and a mouth that does not belie the mirthful promise of the eyes!”
