Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-03-04
Bold Robbery i'm Grundy
Center.

From the Atlas Extra of Feb, 22d
Last night the house of j. Slifer,
| ESQ. and the Center House, in this
village were entered by burglars, and
| the pockets of pants and vests reflid
and some $500 in money and q valua-
| ble silver watch stolen.
On waking, about seven o'clock in
the morning, Mr.. 4. Hyde, who
boards at SIifpr's discovered that his
watch was gone. His brother, Sam
ueI, who slept with him, Immediate
| ly got up, aud tax ing his pants, found
that his pocket book was gone also.
Arson HYDE then looked for his
watch, and found that, too, had dis
appearde. The writer hereof, who
occupies the same room with the
HYDE brothers, waking just as the
latter had discovered their loss, grab
bed for his vest and pants, but found
his watch and money safe. Thealarm
of burglary soon spread through the
house, and it was found that other
rooms had been entered, but nothing
else of value taken. Mr.. A. Hyde's
pocket book contained $500 or over
i'm money, and Samuel's some so or
$50, and note for $500. The watch
belonging to. A. Hyde was worth
nearly hundred dollars,
We soon learned that ours was not
the only house that had been enter
ed. The Center House had been
rifled by the same burglarious indi-
viduals, but their haul there was
not so rich, they securing there
plumber to the amount of only about
$i1 in all. They entered room &C.
cupied by six men, ritled the peck
cts of three pairs of pants, taking
the pocket books, which were found
i'm the morning empty under a cor
ner of the barn. The man they were
evidently aiming for at the Center
House was U. J. Tompkins who was
supposed to have considerable money
about him, but he lay on the back
side of the bed and had his pants
doubled up under his head, so they
did not reach him. The pocket books
of the HYDE brothers were found,
later, in the school house, but the
money was all gone except dollar
in one and seventy ceuts In the 9TH
Ell.
The burglars conducted their oper-
atoms shrewdly. The writer hereof
and two printers were at work late in
the Attas office getting out the week S
edition, and the doors of their board
ing places were consequently left un
locked to admit them. We retired
about one O'Clock. 1t is uncertain
whether the robbery was committed
at Slifer's before or after that hour.
If after, ii is q mystery why they did
not take our watch and pocket book
too.
The printers, who boarded at the
Center House, did not get home till
after o'clock. 1t is pretty certain
that the robbery was committed there
Lefore that hour. One of them, as he
was retiring, looked out of the wins
dow, and saw in tho street q rather
short man in q long overcOat and
can. He was going up the street in
the direction Of Slifer's house.
All the circumstances of the rob-
berry indicate that the burglars We're
familiar with the locality and ar
of the houses which they
entered. 1t Is evident that they were
after Slifer, too, as the room he 2eeu-
pied short time ago was entered,
but finding that he had changed hls
QuaIlGTs hII IoL IL iuiti1SI.
p. 5. Since the above was in type
Mr.. Lewis Boughton, who boards at
Mr.. Houks's, about two miles from
the village, makes the following
On Monday evening,
about nightfall, man, described as
rather short man with dark NOUS
tache and chin whiskers, having on
q long black overcoat and tallish
cap, was seen to pass Mr.. Houk's
house. AS he passed he pulled up
the collar of his coat to the top of his
ears, as If to conceal his face. lie
took the direction towards Grundy
Center. The same man was seen n
little before by Mr.. Relyea's and Mr..
EIliott's people who talked with him
and at once set him down, from his
and general appearance,
as a suspicious character. We are
told that he enquired all about Grun-
dy Center, the number of stores here,
and seemed DESTROYS of gaining par
ticular information about the village.
1t was remarked atthe time, by some
of those who saw him, that he could
be coming here for no good purpose.
The Houk school house is a few
rods from Mr.. Houk' 5 house. When
the teacher left after school she put
out the fire and cleaned the ashes out
of the stove. Mr.. Boughtop was in
the school house about six o'clock OH
Monday evening, and found the stove
cold. After III O'Clock, when he
went to bed, there was no light in
the school house. About o'clock
the next morning, when he went to
the school house TO make fire, he
found the stove hot and good fire
in it, aud books laid down as If to
form a pillow, showing that some
one had spent the latter part OF the
night there.
The regular issue of the alias of
last Friday, contains the following
particulars:
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