Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-18

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burglary art, but which, ct the advent Of the
heated term, laid the jimmy and drill on
the shelf while they rested from their labors
in the romantic region where that clear and
classic stream, Big Wheeling Creek, has its
fountain head, have, with the coming Of
cool weather, returned to the city, and bright
and early yesterday morning they opened
the fall campaign with an selat land a
jimmy which seems to ensure them q good
fall trade at remunerative rates. In fact,
they
EXPERIENCED A BOON
right at the start using about q pound and
8 hall Of powder to produce it, and they
have every reason to believe that business
in their line will pick up right along until
some unforeseen difficulty viii warrant them
in disseminating. But we digress.
The scene of the job referred to was at
the B. & o. depot, and the particulars are
about as follows: Shortly after 4 o'clock yes
terdsy morning, when NightWatchman
Thompson, on duty ct the depot, opened
the front door Of the passenger station, he
observed that the door at the foot OF the steps
leading to the sleeping rooms above, and
which opened into the ticket Office, was
standing open. The door had been locked
the evening before, and suspecting some
thing wrong, Mr.. Thompson entered the
office, which contained a quantity Of smoke
and smelled strongly of powder. CHANGING
toward the safe, the Waterman saw the
door wss standing wide open, and that the
money drawer and some small boxes con
tanning papers, &c were missing. Realiz-
ing that burglars had been at work, Mr.
Thompson ran up stairs to the bed room,
where Ticket Seller Tom Burke and the
baggage matter and brakeman of No. 4
passenger train were sleeping. These gen
tlemeu were aroused and informed Of the
trouble, and after making q hasty examina-
ton of the premises Capt. Deyries was sem
Tor. They attempted slsoto telephone forthe
police, but the central office informed them
that the connection with headquarters was
faulty, and that they could not call them
A messenger was sent to the Office, and
Officers Bsrum and Duffy were soon on TIT
scene. A careful examination of the safe
showed that
A SMALL HOLE
had been drilled il the door Just over to-
eek, a large quantity of powder iuserIe1
and the door forced open by the explosion
which must have been 8 heavy one. To,
inside lining Of the door vas forced Of, alc
had been lifted out Of the safe. The money
drawer and papers had then been desroge,
ard carried of. Entrance had been mad,
to the passenger station by means Of a key,
the door being unlocked and locked ate
them. Once inside, it was but the work OF
q few moments to
PRY OPEN THE DOOR
to the ticket Office with a stout
chisel and then the work OF drilling the
safe was begun, the implements used being
q common carpenters brace and a quarter
or three-eishth inch drill. This brace, two
stout chisels and a sledge hammer the
burglars left behind them on the floor.
After leaving the ticket office the craftsmen
Unlocked the outer door leading to South
street, passed out, locked it behind them,
and struck q bee line for the old Hubbard
saw mill, where they sized the Doodle up,
and, it is thought made q division. They
LETT the money drawer aud two dollars Ill
silver there, the latter probably dropped in
the hurry and excitement of the moment,
and started east, either by South street TO
Market, and thence along the creek bank
or else up Sixteenth street. Officer Wat
son aid Mr.. Clator searched the alleys back
the City Hall soon after daylight, aud in
alley u. Just in the rear of DR.. Baird's resi-
derce, thew found o small oox of papers and
cents in change, dropped by the rss
cells in their flight. This was the last posi-
tive trace obtained, although there sre
OTHER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES,
which will be related BY and 6y.
As 10 the time CT the robbery, it eanuo:
be locate any closer than to say it occurred
between 2 and 4 O'Clock. DuriDg the nigh
the Waterman tried the door Of the psssen
ger station, and finding it secure, be passed
little thipkipS the burglars we're at work
within q few feet Of him. The sound of the
explosion wa not heard by Mr.. Burke or
those sleeping With him, and the act may
have been committed an hour or more be-
fore the Estchman discovered the open
door. Now as 10 the perpetrators. Suspi-
Il, n strongly points to three men, all young
and smco E-tsced,
WHOSE STRANGE ACTIONS
we're roted Wednesday night BY several peO-
pie. About 9 o'clock Wednesday evening,
n,n, one tall, in his shirt sleeves and
wearing q white slouch hat, and the others
about I've feet six inches high, wearing caps,
rowed up to the wharf from a point south OF
the creek, landing ct the foot Of Twelfth
street. They ferried q coiored man over to
the Island side, and after the passenger
had gone up the bank, the Trio dlsembarked
and held q long CONSULTATION near the will
lows in the rear Of George Hooks residence
After q time one Of them was heard to say,
. Hurry up or well be late and the three
70 the foot Of Fink street, where one
Of them said to Peter Curry's ferryman
I'VE will be back after while, and when We
are done with the skif we will leave the
under your boat house The party
then disappeared up on the Island. After
the lapse of considerable time theyeane
back, got IN the skif and roWed up the river
oct of sight By and by they came back
and lsnded at the wharf, where the ferry
man last Jaw them. But later IN the aignt,
and presumably just before daybreass, the
skif was brought back to the Island, beached
high and dry on the sand, and the oars put
under the north end Of the boathouse. The
men
WERE o VISIBLE
al day yesterday, and the skif remained
where they lef. it all day. 1t is a red skif,
about fifteen feet long, and is said to
have been stolen at a point north Of Steu.
benyille and sold to q South Side saloon
There is every reason to suspect
,ksss Akse men Of being the robbers, one
point being that The telephone wire leading
from the central Office TO the City Hall
was cut at the corner Of Mar
ket street and alley Is, and the tall MAI
The white sloueh hat was seen about
n idrigbt, pretending to be intoxicated.
near that point. The names of these three
men, if PRINTED, would be recognized as
those Of old offenders, and this fact strength