Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-05-30

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as the inn. and trust to getting some one
to row them over.
Though never rowed q boat In my
life" said Steracker, yet am not AFRAID
to 60 in one"
This circumstance and the general
bearing of the blind man removed from
the mind of Stevens and his guests the
| impr eesion that the man seen by the
landlord on the river in the early morn
ing was Steracker.
At eleven O'Clock that night Stevens
and his son went down and got the boat
ready. Presently Steracker came, led Dy
his daughter, and both were rowed across
the river. Early next morning
/ news came that the residence
of Squire Kirby, two miles above Locken
Bridge, on the right bank Of the river,
had been broken into. A ladder had
been placed against q second-story win
dow and entrance had thus been had to
small room used for trunks and linen.
The 'Squire's strong room, as it was call
ed, on the ground floor. had been open
ed from the hall, and between e2,OOO
and $4,000 in gold and notes stolen from
an oaken box. Some of the thieves, for
the footsteps outside showed there were
several, had then opened the door of the
dressing-room adjoining the sleeping
apartment of the Squire and his wife by
gripping the end of the key with pliers
and turning it. The marks of the pliers
were plainly seen. Then they had re-
moved bodily small hardwood box in
which Mrs. Kirby kept jewels and
Close nv the door ofthe ,souire's room
was The famiIv,s silver chest strongly
hound Nth iron and sacnred With two
noJiocts The Ghost had haen raised
pnon rollers and AZ moved noiselesslv
into the room nv the window lof which
the thieves entered one roller heino lift
ed and renlaced in front "a # was reonired
rome had heen nlaced secnrelv around
the trunk and If had been silently low
cred to the Ground. the ladder being
used as an inclined nlane. The thieves
had then escaned with their nlunder the
silver-chest and the hard wood box being
found two hundred wards awav in the
rear of the stables. broken open and
empty. It is said that the property
stolen exceeded in valne 81 O0). The
examination which followed indnced
the belief that the thieves were expert
BURGLARS for thew hod nerformed their
difficnIt work withont disturbing anv
one. The time of the robbery was fixed
at about midnioht "a a small timeniece
in the 'Souire's stndv had been inset
and stonned Of ton ninntoa tn tveIvo
The attemnt to follow the thieves hv
their tracks was futile, for they had evil
IDENTITY left the spot where they broke
open the boxes by scaling low wall and
crossing the meadows, whether going to
the river or in the opposite direction
none could determine. The ladder which
they had used to ascend to the window,
and the wooden rollers on which the
silver chest had been removed, were left
behind, but they found no clew. One
thing, however, was clear. The same
gang had done the job that had perpe-
trated precisely similar burglary at the
residence of Mr.. Whitman, near Head
ingley, fifteen miles distant, two months
as the same kind of rollers
had been used to remove a chest from
the hutler's pantry, and the door of q
room had been opened by using pliers
and turning the key from the outside.
Within month the hardware shop of
q Mr.. Millicken, in Keighley, was enter
ed between eleven o'clock on c Saturday
nigh and daylight the next morning and
nearly Gl,7O0 stolen. Scarcely had
another month passed before robbery
OF another kind occurred, which was so
novel in its method as to excite wonder
over all the country.
On a Fr;dav onca o for,r;oht = vos
customary foy . trnstad cIart ~ corrv
abont 90 5OO in liver from Keiohlev 70
the Butterfield mills At Haworth fonr
miles away to nav the hands The mon.
ev was inf in canvas haus and nlacad
,rnder the seat Of the o;o in wh;ch tbe
clerk drove and # was his cnstom IN
leave Keiohlev at ahont two o,clock in
the afternoon After the ontsk;rts If
Keiehlev are passed the road ia lonely
One afternoon when the clerk had dr;v.