The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-11

burglars at yVork-They Get Away
With the oswaeo and Fire the
building.
Daring the pest year, the grocery es-
| adjustment of Il ,rnes & Raymond, on
West p, can street, has time and again
been burglaIiz ii, but nothing dis
turbed except the mouey drawer. Last
FrIdsy week the building wss entered
and the combination on the money
drawer knocked of and some FIVE or
SIX dollsrs distracted. some of the
abave entrances to the building hsve
b1en made through he windows while
cthsFs ere u posed o. have been made
tor ugh the doors. These frequent
BUR6LARIEs
gu minated Sunday morning in the
building by being entered, the safe
forced open and the successful getting
away VITA the ''swag," after which
the building was fred and moss dis
astEous corhAgtGtion only prevented
hy the almost super-human efforts OF
the IRE department. o SIrday morn
irg, about lao c'c.1,k, Marshal
Creary, OdicefClenn v.iis and C.Pf.
Thompson found one OF he front ooaIs
Of the
FIRST EATIOSGL BANK
open, and were, holding Z consultation
rs 10 whether il was opened 10y bu :
glars or left 80 by accident, Officer
Cheuneville crossed the street 70 the
lyydraut in front of the lion Front sa-
loon 20 get drink OF water, and as he
Was returning to the bank he observed
LIGHT
under the doors of Barnes & R.ymond's
esJabli Inn n, and Immediately mott
fed Musicals Creary ard Fhomp5on,
aad tie three hurried over to liud
dense volumes Of fm5ke issuing from
the building. The alarm was immsGi-
ately gwen, and as one OF the officers
hurried 10 the rear OF the establishment
Officer CncnncYil!c, who is foreman of
Hope Hook end Ladder No. ., has,
tened to the truck house aud alarmed
the company WHO soon arrived at The
scene of tbs Gre with their apparatus.
and forced the front doors open. By
this time the steamers arrived and
promptly got or water, and in 8 short
time had the fl u,ts under control!
The officer who gent 10 The real of the
building, found the
BACK DOOR
open and the INSIDE a mass Of flames
and smoke. As snoE az the fire was
subdued, entrOpce was made into
the building, aud the stock found
badly damaged 10y FIRE ana water. The
safe of the firm was found rolled from
its position, and the combination and
handle knocked off us was The safe OF
Mr.. Hawkes. few nights ego. This
failing to open the safe, the burglars
used large iron bar to turn it round,
and with axes and chisels, aud two
overcoats to muflls the sound, sue
ceedei in cutting out almost the
ENTIRE BACK,
and moving the composition, had an
easy time in getting into the interior
and abstTactlug the ''swag."
Barnes & Raymond had over $50
in the safe, and about sec belonging
to other parties. The papers were
also carried off or destroyed by fire.
The firm, owing to the burglaries first
mentioned above had been very care
full in closing up tteir house, and had
made thorough Search of the entire
building before locking up. They
were particularly careful about fasten-
ing the back door found open when
the fire was first discovered, and are
satisfied it could not have been opened
from the outside, and the burglars
were either secreted in the building st
the time it wss closed up, or had keys
to fit the front doors. The supposition
is, that after forcing the safe, the bur
glars fired the building to cover up
their tracks, and from Indications,
must haYe used liberal quantity of
KEROSENE OIL
for getting it under way, and had half
an hour elapsed before the discovery
was made the coullsgretlon would
probably have been the most disastrous
the city ever experienced. The loss
of Barnes 81 Raymond has not been
exactly determined, bIt is fully COW
cred by insurance.
The law books and papers of Wal
ton, Green s. Hill, whose office is on
the second floor of the building fired,
were considerably damaged by smoke
and heat.
Up to late hour last night, the de-
tectives had not got on the right scent
of the burglars. From ali appearances,
however, they are the same gents who
entered Hawkes. night or two ago.
THE STATESMAN ABRoAD.-The fol-