The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-22
GRe DAYS CRIMINAL RECORD.

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. l0-lSpoclal.l-A
gang of safe burglars have been work
ing the town for some weeks IN the best
biyle of the art, aud this morning per-
pelrated the most daring robbery on
RECORD in San Antonio, securing A,sOO
in cash. Col. WoOus, of Denver, runs u
Keno room on man plaza aud mas been
Having big runs. IL Is tho most public
part OF town, next door 10 an AL night
Saloon, within thirty yards of two other
saloon of like character. FROM ten 10
thirty hacks nre always on the plaza,
and 1t Is paJrolled all night long by two
or three policemen and wnicumon. Az
L8n. IN. three gamblers, who sleep IN
/ tho rooms, were awakened by
La masked man, who advanced
on them with pistol drawn, closely fol-
lowed by five Others, also with masks
I and pistols. The tail mau, who seemed
/ to he the leader, addressed the sleepors
and told them not 10 move or he would
kill them. He ordered his men To close
the stove to keep out the light, and TO
close up the liant I'm. The olher men
then fell to work and began tying the
gamblers with some small rope strands,
which they produced from their pock-
cts. All of them wore OvercOats and
SLOUGH hats. One of the robbers was a
sleery small man with soft, small hands,
and quick movements. This fact was
noticed by one of the men tied, named
Dick; After nsr,,n tying tho i men sney
, KEYS, but could not find them. A brace
4nd bit, chisels and hammer were pro-
duced and they went TO work to force
the safe. They worked quite while on
this with little success and then moved
the safe, with the aid of large wooden
wedge, to the back room, where they
bored two holes, one below the COM
binatiOn and one on the right-hand edge
OF the combination. They then opened
the safe and extracted the drawers and
began working on them with the CHS
els. They made great deal OF noise,
both in moving the safe and in hammer
ing, and the BONA men were in hopes
the noise would be heard from the street
and the alarm given. No one sleeps in
The store and printing office below this
room, but the saloon is kept open all
night, next door to the book store. A
very thick wall separates the two
buildings however, and this deadened
tho noise. Dick says one of the men
[. picked up shirt, as he came in, and re-
marked: "Whero are your diamonds!
Don't you wear diamonds?" and tore the
shirt i'm two and tied one Of the men,
named Little Tom. Gags were made OF
pieces of shirts, with large knots tied in
the middle, which were put in their
mouths, and another of a bit of green
d. cloth, which they must have picked
ND in the back room. The
manner in which the entrance
yywas effected was through reaI
door, which communicates with back
yard, into which all the buildings on
Soledad street and main plaza on the
north side converge. stairway runs
up the back door, which was kept
locked and double bolted. A pane Of
glass near the top of the door was
broken, and Il man standing on box
outside the door evidently thrust his
arm through and unbolted and forced
open the door. Prints of a mans feet
were on the box. After the robbery
was completed, the entire gang quickly
deft, after seeing that the three men
whose names are Bill Miller, Little Tom
and Dick, were securely fastened. At
I ter they were gone, Miller loosened his
bonds, threw them off and liber
ated his fellows and an alarm
notified of the robbery, the three men
and one Il. Nj. Ward alias Halpin, were
placed in the city jail until the matter
Is sifted by Detective Hughes, VINO is
wOrkin on the case. The burglars lef!
their tools, or part of them, consisting
Ct patent ratchet, a brace, bit, two
broad Wheelwrlght's chisels, heavy
wooden wedge. These tools were given
in charge of Capt. Hughes, who discov-
cred q private mark, "a. W." cut on
the brace and chisels. These were
claimed this morning by blacksmith
named @. M. Wolcken, whose shop is
on South Flores street, near Sum-
berg's store. Mr.. Wolcken's shop
was found broken open this morning
and these tools, and a steel bit were
missing. Nothing was lost from the
safe. The large pocket book containing
the greenbacks was left. No cigars
were taken, but an empty box was
found in the back yard this morning
1.-THE faro and keno chips were found al
safe in their trays this morning.