The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-08-29
IErom Saturdays Daily Herald.l
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.
Three Thousand Dollars AbStraeted
from the POStOfilce.

Some time during Thursday night or
Friday morning the postoiiice in this
city was felonously entered, and mon
eys to the amount of nearly three
thousand dollars was taken from the
safe and carried off. The occupants of
the room at the time were Postmaster
Jones, money order clerk Gerry, and
asserting and distributing clerks Ad-
ans and Neill.
These gentlemen were sleeping in
their beds, disposed as follows: Mr.
Jones and Mr.. Gerry occupied the bed
on line with the back door with a
window on the side, with its sarle rails
ed. One of the asserting and distribu-
ting clerks occupied the bed on line
with the door Numerically opposite to
the one occupied by Messrs. Jones and
Gerry, and the other clerk slept in the
front part of the Office near the general
delivery window. On retiring, Mr..
Jones placed his pantalOons contain
ing the key of the safe, one of
Herings patent champion, and
the keysto the compartments
OH the inside of the safe in which the
funds of the Office were kept. Unfor-
tunately, Mr.. Jones' place in the bed
was on the inside, and Immediately
next to the window, and through this
opening the robber or robbers reached
in, took the pantaloons from
under Mr.. Jones' pillow, and taking
from it the outside key of the safe and
the one which opens the small iron
chest on the inside, overlooking, per.
haps, the keys to two other drawers
adjoining the chest, were prepared to
complete their nefarious operation.
Their entrance into the postotfice was
then undoubtedly made through the
back door, between the two beds, as
this, owing to the oppressive heat, had
been accustomed to be left open dur
ing the night, barricaded by chairs,
however, as a precaution. The first
one to discover the robbery the next
morning was Mr.. Gerry, who on rising
saw from his bed the door of the
safe standing open and postage stamps
and papers Uttered in front of it. Mr..
Gerry at once aroused Mr.. Jones,
when the startling work of the rob-
bers was examined into in the pres
ence of Deputy Sheriff Floyd, and sew
eral other gentlemen. The chest spo-
ken of was standing open, with the
key in the lock, and greenbacks to the
amount of twenty-five hundred or
three thousand dollars gone. The two
drawers referred to, one above and one
below the chest, were not opened, as
the keys to these were left by the rob-
bers in Mr.. Jones' pocket.
One of these drawers contained $50
in greenbacks and the other S2S5.5O
in currency and $500 gold and silver.
Subsequently, investigation was made
by Sheriff fBarkley, assisted by United
States Marshals Anderson and Craft,
but it developed nothing, so far, that
we are aware of that will lead to the
detection of the culprts.
The whole community sympathize
most heartily with Postmaster Jones
in this misfortune, as more popular,
upright, courteous and punctual officer
is not to he found in the state, aud it is
to be hoped that such vigilant and
ceaseless endeavor will he pursued in
ferreting out the guilty parties as will
lead to their early arrest and the re-
covery of every cent of the money.