Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

TIN srw roHK eESrnY APPRECIATE rHE Ar1nscrIora
or unArrLEnoHO ~ SUMNER nEsOuT-rwo sAFfs
CRACKED LAST eATurDAY MONT.
Two safe-breakinp jobs were done In Brhuleboro
hy professionals laft saturday niRhtone at the bak
cry aud the other At the Farmers and Mochanica EH
change. At the latter place the thieves entered by
basement window, breaking pane Of glass % get n
the window fastening To open the door leading into
The store at the head Of the cellar stairs they used
bit 10 cut ont corner Of one panel, making hole
mrge enough 70 get hand through and reach the bolt
and key though Il appears that they first bored sim
gle hole above the knob expecting TO md the bolt
there To open the safe they drilled half-nch hole
through the door exactly over the slide which slips
into notch In small disk 90 which the bolts at
tached After drilling the hole they cut thread and
then undoubtedly inserted a strong steel screw on
which they got a powerful pressure and forced the
One end Of the door-handle, which lies horizontal
when the safe is locked in the way Of the DRILLING
and was bent up. All the papers and other contents
Of tho safe were overhauled and the caahbor taken
out and broken open. The sum obtained was SIPS
200 Of this belonging 10 the store and e2s being Meth
e e sgneny schooi money The safe stands IN the
front OF the store directly In front Of Of the large
windoWe, but the curtains drawn for over sun
day on closing the night before and It has not been
the custom 20 leave the gas burning.
AZ the bakery Mr. Thurber discovered on entering
~ 6;5D IN the morning that his money-drawer had
no signs Of violence but on opening II he found ev-
erythinR-bOokH papers and caah-bo1 gone. He found
the oonents-all except $40 in sver-in dark closet
where the cash-boN had been broken open and the
books and papers had evidently been completely gone
through with. How the burglars opened the safe IL
70 turn the knob aud ock Il before leaving Saturday
night Otherwise there must have been play enough
~ the lock % that they discovered the combination by
careiuy listening 20 hear the tumblerH fall they
turned the knob. II hardly seems probable however
that they would take the time for this when they had
the tools for quickly forcing the lock al hand How
they gained access 10 the saesronm where the safe
stands BE- almost a. much mystery An the doors
found locked except the ono leading from the
paeking-room in the rear. Probably the doors which
lead from the adjoining stairway into the packing
room were unlocked and then the bolt Of the door
"a
through the transom.
The sum obtained IN both places It will be soon was
about 800. No suspicious characters bad been
about aud the nighi-waich saw that night The
tracks IN the Exchange cellar show tna the men wore
ruhhef-soied shoes but Of an entirely different pat
tern from anything sold or worn here.
The Kind Of job done on the Exchange safe IL new
one within two years. II was invented" and first
used by New York professional who IL now Ia forced
retirement for few years II has been supposed By
detectives that there only two other orackFmen
who understood that particuar trick "a the arf and
practced It, Precisely the sort Of job was done
last week.
temptedl 10 connection with the BrattebOro hurging
has caused good deal Of Amusement among the par
ties directly interested. Last Monday morning two
men OF doubtful appearance appeared at the Brooks
House aud vent O. the barber 90 be shaved. They
had driven IN from the outlying country and their
conversation when the burglary mentioned, a.
reported by Mr.. Cook, eyasivc and suspicious.
Enquiry At hurke's stable showed that one Of them
had presented the card OF James l.. Powers. a we'll
known young Boston lawyer Of local antecedents.
Mr. Harlow Of the Exchange had business In Boston
early this week and thought best a. a preliminary
step ~ hnd out whether Mr. Powers had really pre-
sented that card in person. he found Mr. Powers 10
bis Office and was told by him that he Just homr
from fishing bout az Marlboro pond with two or
three friends "Do they really think 90 Braftleborn
that cracked that safe ?? Nj Powers asked With fall
enJ1yment ui tho joke, when MIR. Harlow made
knnwn the reason for his enquiry.
The Exchange members view their loss philns0ph-
icaly. There are 400 Of Us, they say land the
eraFo loss ~ only % cents apiece which h better
iur some poor fellow 20 shoulder % alone" Mr.
Ihurher D. philosophical IN that he h glad that
sum ia HE safe wasn't larger