Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-08
RAIDED BY BURGLARS.
a Large Jewelry Establishment at Spring.
field, Mass, Robbed of S15, 700 Worth of
Valuable Watches and Jewelry.

Large Jewelry Establishment at Spring.
field, Mass, Robbed of 900 Worth of
Valuable Watches and Jewelry.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Oct. %. Ii
I. The large establ ishment of e. S. Stowe s.
Co., Of this city, was operated upon last
night to the amount of 5000, diamonds,
gold watches and valuable rings compris-
ing the booty, silverware and other cheaper
goods being evidently Of no value to the
burglars. The robbers were without doubt
professionals and understood their bust
ness, as they singled out the largest store
of the kind in the city, also choosing the
early hours of Sunday morning for their
operations, as the robbery would not be
discovered until very late hour. 1t was
first discovered by a clerk, Thomas Nc
Hugh, on entering the store at D:15za. m.
A sledge-hammer, screwers, ETC., lying
about the floor, and bits of paper pasted to
the windows, at once aroused his suspi-
cions. On going to the rear of the store he
noticed the gas-light was burning low,
which usually was left at full head, and
upon further investigation found the safe
open, the contents strewn about, and a kit
of burglars tools told the story. He at
once notified the police and his employer,
Mr.. Stowe, who was at church. Entrance
to the store was obtained through a
basement window in the rear of the
building. After gaining entrance to the
Scellar and crawling over boxes and up
the stairway they found the door at the
head of the stairs locked. They bored a
hole through the panel, but finding it too
slow work they pried the door open with a
jimmy, thus leaving the way clear to the
safe and its valuable contents. Turning he
gas to glimmer they commenced opera
tions at breaking the safe. The bar across
the two doors was removed, and the cover
ing to the keyhole was taken from it's pad
lock fastenings next. To separate the
wrought-iron shell of the door from the
cement case inside they inserted small
wedges, thus leaving small space into
which a large jimmy was driven, and from
this point by aid eff powerful tools the bolts
were sprung from their sockets and the Job
was done, and nothing remained but to take
their choice and quietly make their exit
One feature of the job was the selection of
the best of the stock, ignoring silverware
and even gold watches, which were in pos
wanting no secondhand stock. They, how
ever, overlooked unset diamonds valued at
$4,000. Parties ,rooming on the next floor
above heard no noise, and the watchman of
the Evans House, in the performance of his
duties, saw nothing wrong and the light
burning as usual at 4:10 O'Clock, which
suggests the probability that the job was
done after that hour. The burglars had
soft snap, as the safe YEAS an old-fashioned
one, guaranteed fire-proof but not burglar
proof City Marshal Hamilton is using
every means in his power to trace and cap
ture the burglars, who are no doubt many
miles from here, and of whom no trace has
been found at this late hour. The burglary,
being the most extensive ever performed in
this city, occasions great excitement on the
streets.