The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-29
RURGLARY I'm YARMOUTH.
The POstoaice aud GOOch's Store Enterea
"A Safe Blown Open.

The Advertiser learns that on Thursday night
or early yesterday morning the store of Gooen
| Brothe rs in Yarmouth was broken into, as Weii
as the Post-ofice in the lower village. The
particulars, as the Advertiser learns from Mr..
| Gooch, are as follows:
Gooch Brothers store stands on the man
| street of the village, with side entrance lnto
| court. About sixty feet from the court Is
livery stable, and next to the livery stable the
| house of one of the brothers Gooch. About
midnight Mr. Sweetsir, who occupies house
| about sixty feet from the store, heard noise
as of some one pounding in systematic sort
| of way. At the same time he heard-as ne
| thought-the tram ping of horses feet IN the
| livery stable, and supposed the two had come
connection, and did not think much more about
it. About twenty minutes afterwards he heard
an explosion, which Weakened his wife as well
as himself. He got up and looked out of the
window, saw nothing, concluded he was mis-
taken, and went back to bed. While listening
he heard the Pullman train pass through tne
village. There were two men, employees, VINO
slept in the livery stable, but they state they
heard nothing.
In the morning it was discovered that an en-
trance to the store had been effected by smash
ing the glass window in the side door, turning
the lock with a false key, and removing
brace placed against the door. The front store
had been entered and box of nice cotton hose
taken out. The bolt that fastens the back
shop door had been cut By some instrument,
thus admitting the scoundrels to the room
where the safe was kept This safe was one OF
the od-fashoned kind, manufactured some
fifteen years ago. The key-hole had been hlied
with powder and fuse attached The ex-
plosion had burst the outer door of the safe of,
blowinga hole through the inner door and left
it hanging by one hinge. The burglars had
helped themselves to about $400 in cash-in-
Guiding a one hundred dollar and fifty dollar
bill-a check for $40, payment on which has
been stopped, and left another check for $50
on the floor. A little bag containing $15 in
silver was overlooked and lot of nickels'
Many of the books in the safe we've injured by
the explosion, and orders for goods burned
On the floor was a piece of the fuse, and two
bags of glove-kid that had probably contained
the powder. The fragments of the cotton hose,
taken from the front store, were found about
the safe, having been used for either deadenlng
sound or wadding. No trace was left by the
burglars. Mr.. Gooch cannot estimate his full
loss yet.
The Post-ofice was entered by smashing in
the door panels How much was lost was as
yet unknown when Mr. Gooch came to the
city. Mrs, Lucy Groves is the postmistress.
The affair,was very daring one and very
skillfully executed. A man supposed to have
been a confederate TOOK board at the Baker
House on Wednesday, saying he should stay
but few hours He did remain till yesterday
afternoon, but where he went to is unknown.
The Waterman at the station says that nobody
left Yarmouth on either of the Pullman trains'
but that three men arrived by the midnight
Pullman from the West, and stayed all night
in the station until a.. yesterday. Conse-
quently they had nothing to do with the affair.
This is the second time Gooch Brothers store
has been entered, burglars Cracking tabout
year ago.