San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-11-22

dDle1PdperS Iaksn ana the WORK
Done Boldly and in a Neat
Manner-Other Robberies.
Another audaciOus safe robbery was
committed in tits CITY Sunday morning
early, VIII oh WAS not discovered until
about 8 O'Clock. The store Of Jacob
Dullnig, general grocer, on the corner Of
Military plaza and North Flores street,
was entered by burglar or burglars
and the lock OF the safe was picked and
the contents of the safe were rifled. The
burglar secured some $1,000 in currency,
gold, silver and bank checks. the latter,
however, will be of no use TO the hold, r,
Ne they are not endorsed and the rObber
would not dare present them, fearing
detection.
The manner of the burglary shows it
to have been performed by II cool, dar-
ing professional burglar. A carpenters
brace ard inch bit, or auger, had been
procured, and the thief, entering the
small side yard between the store and
Richard LeniZ's saloon. by means Of II
gate which had been locked with chain
and paddock, he went to work on an old =,
unused Size door of the store. lie
opened the gate by unlocking the pad
lock with u skeleton key and carefully
closed il behind him. A sqIIare hole In
means Of boring Il row OF holes about y
feet in length and splitting the wOOu
out. This made Il hole large enough to
permit large sized man going in. A
barrel of pickles standing inside against
this door WAS removed, and then the
burglar directed his attention TO the
! large safe. A hole was drilled in the
combination lock, at place where u
skeleton key could be inserted and the
bolt Of the lock shot back and this was
the way he opened ii. The rest was easy.
After the safe was opened and the
money secured the burglar coolly
searched the store shelves until
he found box of cigars. They
were new brand TO him, Dullnig's No.
., and he pried open the box lid and
sampled one Of the cigars by cutting it
open 10 see il the tobacco was good
Evidently satisfied he helped himself to
three cigars and with his booty de-
camped MS silently rs he came, replacing
the piece he took out of the door and
fastening the gate carefully with the
paddock and chain, though not locking
the paddock.
No clue to the robbery can be found.
MIR. Dullnig did not learn of his loss
until about : o'clock Sunday morning,
when he opened up the store. The
police captain was Immediately teie.
phOned and the detectives were sum
moned, but beyond careful examina-
ton of the work done during the night,
they could gain no information. The
time the deed must have been com
mitted was from 10 o'clock at night
until daylight Of Sunday morning, as the
barkeeper OF LentZ's saloon says he
closed up at 10 o'clock and everything
was all right then in the yard, so far as
he knew.
This burglary, happening as it did
within less than a stones throw of the
police station, where officers are al
ways on hand night and day,
and just across from two narrow streets
and from the plaza market, where the
chill con carne restaurants have their
customary crowds around them ali
night makes it one of the boldest ever
committed in San Antonio, or perhaps
elsewhere. Perhaps more burglsries by
this accomplished cracksman before he
leaves the city, may lead to his capture
We shall see.
| Captain ShardeIn, Detectives Hughes
and Long and Sheriff Nat Lewis, as soon
as they heard of this burglary Sunday
| morning, set to work, and they worked
hard all day and all night, with no sleep
| and hardly mouthful to eat, In search
ing for the burglars. Their search was
rewarded early this morning by finding
two men at their room in hotel,
whom they arrested as suspicious
characters. They had registered first as
Charles Woods and j. b. Stone, and had
changed it to James Morgan. They had
| only registered there the night before
from Waco. The officers learned, how
ever, that the same two men had visited
the Vance house and slept there Satur-
day night, registering the names of j. ID.
Mason and George Howard. When
arrested the two men stoutly protested
their innocence, although they made no
resistance. They gave their names as
Charles Woods and w. A. Brashear.
Woods said he was well known in
this city, while Brashesr, a smaller
man, said he was an entire stranger.
They had on their persons when arrest
ed, nothing that could connect them
with the Dullnig robbery, though bo-
gus roll OF money used to work the con-
fidence racket on sleepy hotel clerks, was
found on one Of them, while a bogus
bank check, for 81 600, drawn on bank
OF Fort Worth, was found under bureau
In the room. Capt. Hughes thinks he
knows Woods, and says he was one Of
the two confidence men who worked
the "change racket" in some clothing
stores here two years ago, one OF whom
was sent to the penitentiary, while he,
the other, escaped. His name then was
j. b. Mason, and he hailed from Dem
yer. Colorado.
The police have all been instructed to
be vigilant in their lookout for suspi-
cious characters, and as result of this,
| Officers Bennett arrested one, and
| Bowen two Sunday night.
ROBBERY NO. 2.
A robbery equally as cheeky, though
not as successful, was committed in the
room of one Of the guests Of the Central
hotel, Saturday night. A carpenter
named Ballard was robbed and immedi-
ately on discovering his loss he reported
1t and the facts connected with 1t, to
police headquarters. This is what
every one who is robbed should do, and
not wait several hours until the crimi-
mails gain time to hide. He says he came
in from Austin on the delayed train Sat-
urday night. In Austin he had Just
been paid SUM Of money amounting to
nearly $l60, which he bad in currency,
gold and silver in his pockets Of his pam
falcons. In Austin he struck up with a
rather nice fellow, who was dressed and
looked like an honest farmer. He gave
his name as Arthur Ii. futile. They
began drinking together and finally de-
cided to come over to San AntO-
MO together and spend Sunday In the
Alamo city, as many Austinites are In
boarded and they came over. They Sc
cured rooms at the Central and then
proceeded to the Fashion theatre, where
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