Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-07-10
1al1sTHE, CITY.
Attempt 10 Rob tho county treasury

Attempt 10 Rob the County Treasury.
A.burglarious, but fortunately, an eun-
successful attempt was made ON Friday
night to rob the Treasury of this coun-
ty. I'm the rear of the Treasurer's office
is shed where stonecutters are engaged
in dressing stone for the new County
Jail nOwin process of erection. On quit
ting work at evening, they had been In the
habit Of depositing their tools in small
wooden chest, locked, and left under the
shed. 49,. ~" - ''f ''
On Friday night, this chest was broken
open. A large iron hammeror sledge, used
by stpnecutters, and weighing some twenty
five pounds, was taken from this chest, with
points or punches and other tools. With
this hammer or sledge, the burglars broke
open the large iron outside or entrance door
of the Treasurer's office. This must have
been effected by a person well acquainted
with the structure of the door and its fast
eniRgs, who must have struck with tile
hammer a well directed and violent blow
at the proper place, bursting the door open.
The bolt or bar of the lock was bent and
nearly twisted In two.
Theouter door being thus opened, the
burglars entered the front room of the
Treasurer's office and lighted the gas. "A
large safe stands in the back room, of the
Manufacture of Hall, Carroll & Co., Of Gin
cinnati. In this safe the County funds and
money vouchers were deposited, amount
ing to over 100000. m ...I -..
The burglars first attempt upon this safe
was to pry Off the large iron bar in front of
the doors. But Its fastenings proved too
strong for them. They pried it apart from
the safe, as far as the lock or fastenings
would allow 1t to go, and in this condition
itlwas found the next morning.
The next effort appears to have been to
blow up the safe. For this purpose, three
successive attempts were made, with the
points or punches obtained from the stone
cutters chest, to drill holes through one OF
the safe doors just above the iron bar. But
each, of these attempts proved decided
failure. They cut through the outer iron
plate, but were unable to penetrate the in
side.steel plate. Either frightened away,
or having exhausted the night in their op-
erations, the burglars, after drilling at the
safe, abandoned their project.
Saturday morning, the stonecutters' chest
was found broken open and the large ham
mer lyinga few feet from it; the outer door
Of the Treasurer's Office was partially open;
the gas was burning in the front room, and
the safe In the condition we have described
it. 1t was bold, but most bungling at
tempt at robbery, and evidently made by
common thieves or by professional burglars
not having the usual instruments or tool;
for carrying on their nefarious vocation
The fact that such daring attempt wa:
made on bright moonlight night and in Sc
public place should rouse our authoritie,
and citizens to greater vigilance.
ARRESTED FOR GRAND LARCENY.-Ol
Saturday, upon an affidavit made by L
Sloeum, charging Barney McCabe and an
other,f with abstracting from the jewelry
store on the southwest corner of High anC
Gay streets, about $1,000 worth of jewelry
and $500 in money, Geo. W. Meeker, Esq
issued warrant for their arrest. The war
rant was placed in the hands of Deputy
Sheriff Turner, who, assisted by Deput!
Gillespie, arrested McCabe. He was takel
before the justice who issued the warrant
and entered bail in the sum of $1,000 fo
his appearance at two o'clock Tomorrow
afternoon for preliminary examination
The other person named in the warran
being absent from the city, was not al
rested.
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