The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-30
Over $500 in Cash Secured
From the Safe and Carried
IF by the Thieves.
No Less Than Twenty Gold
and Silver Watches Taken,
With Two Recovered.
All the Details in Connection With
the Boldest Crime Ever Per-
petrated Here.

Sedslia Was perpstrated At Louis & Ad-
doris iewelry store, two doors west of the
postoffice, on East Second street, in the
very heart of the city, between the hours
| Of 8 and go o'clock last evening.
| At the first hour mentioned, Mr.. Adder
| locked the front door vi his store and pro-
ceeded to Kaiser's restaurant for tie pur.
pose Of procuring his supper Before leav-
ing he was particular 10 see that the back
door Gas securely fastened, but both he
outside and inside doors OF the safe were
| lett OPEN
At $40 o'clock Mr.. Adder returned to
| his store, little thinking that in the brief
| period of twenty minutes he had been rob-
bed of MONEY and goods 10 the amount of
probably 81 500. On stepping behind the
! counter the nrst thing that attracted his
| attention WAS the safe doors being wide
open and the money drawer distracted A
look al the show ease revealed further
losses, no less than four gold and fourteen
silver watches being missing.
Tho shoes completely unnerved Mr.
Adder, who step ed into McClelIan's store
! and made the fact Of the robbery public.
Instantly Mr.. Mcclellan and Mr. Ike De
mu,h returned to- the scene of burglary
! what had been taken. Mr.. Aador stated
hat al the time ne went to supper he had
in the money drawer OF the sale about S4OO
in gold coin ant SS5 in greenbacks, and in
4 portnonie abont 800 in gold, portion
Of the latter be ny in foreign coin.
An examination OF the rear door told
the tale plainly 1t Was open, md wo
steel jimmies, probably two and one-hali
feet each in length, revealed the manner of
entrance. Thu much aScertained
Messrs Mcclellan and Mac Denuth
stepped out into the yar,;, when the former
gentlemsh soon picked up gold watch
which had been dropped by The ,hieves in
their flight. A minute later Mr.. MscDe-
ninth picked ny second gold ticker, and.
encouraged by his success Jumped over the
fence putting him Immediately in the rear
of Iigenfrilz' shoe store, when he was re-
warded BY finding the missing drawer rom
the safe, which had also been dropped by
the Wiiv eraeksmen.
4 glance at its contents made glad his
heart, for he saw q number oi bills. He
! returned Immediately 10 the store, where
he counted HE lind" it footing mp $50, or
sll the paper money there vas in The safe
Still. further search was INDUCED in, bat il
proved futile
By this time the news Of the robbery had
become circulated throughout the business
Part of the city, and the sidewalk i'm front
of Mr.. AddOr's store was completely Jam
raed with people. The police and detective
Smith had been notified, and lost no time
IN pntting In an appearance, when they
looked over the surroundings. Of course
ii Was impossible 20 admit to the
store all who applied, but
among the fortunate ones were Mr.. George
Fisher and Mr.. Will Woods, employees oi
the n. X L. shops Both commenced
locking over the premises, when Mr. Fish
or picked up one Of the steel bars, or
jimmies, which had been used in prying
open the rear door, and close inspection
: showed tbsy il Vas his property, bearing
his name, and had been stolen from the
shops eariv Yesterday forenoon. He called
Mr. Woods attention to the matter, and
! together they inspected the second jimmy.
when they ifienIl6ed it IS also belonging to
the X. Il r. shops.
This was pointer, and il set the gen.
tlemen to thinking, when they remembered
having seen suspicious character lOa6ng
around the shops early in the morning,
whom they described as follows: Low.
heavy set blac.. moustache striped pants;
little siouch hat; about twenty i've yesrs
/ old. They impaired this information to
| the police, when detective Smith said he
remembered an individual answering the
, above description, getting eff the train
, from the vest NJ III o'clock Thursday
night. Smith Was struck with the
fellows appearance AZ the time, 40
deter mined 10 watch him. The stranger,
however, seeing that ne vas under sur
veillance. started down: the track, west.
and the last Mr. Smith saw of him he was
going in the direction of the gas work.
Mr.. Addor also emsmbered To- have &c n
o man answering the above description
| lettering around in front of the etore, and
at this writing the superstition. is that this
is the party who did the wors. As to who
he is. or where he has ieen stopping since
his advent in the city, nothing is known.
In this connection Mr.. Woods remem.
bered another circumstance which is prob
ably a second link. At an early hour yes
terday a horse was hitched near his house,
| on the corner of Lafayette and Broadway,
where il was permitted to stand oil day.
| Mrs. Woods noticed the animal, and called
his attention to il, remarkiug that the
party who had ridden and hitched the ami
NAL had probably stolen it, At $40 o'clock
the horse was still there, so Mr.. Woods
took charge of il and turned it loose
in his yard. At $50 o'clock q stranger
answering the description of the man seen
at the X. & T. shops in the morning, came
after and took charge Of the animal and
rode rapidly away. OF course this is oil
circumstautial evidence, but it may be the
means Of bringing the guilty party "a
justice.
Mr. Addor was unable last night to give
his loss, but as before seated il will not foO
up much short Of 81, 500 In addition t.
the money taken from the safe, severa
watches belonging to customers were car
ried oa, and Mr.. Adder is unsble to stat'
their value.
The bolduess Of the crime was the ON