Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-05
CITY HALL BURGLARlZED.
Youthful Burglars at Work-They Secure
 Over $500.

Over $500.
 When Janitor Thomas J Morgan of the city hall informed Selectman Doherty this morning that somebody had entered the city hall building during last night smile played around that officials face, and when he telephoned the police station @ laugh, loud and long, came back over the tele- phone Nobody would have been sur prised to have been called up in the mid dle of the night to learn that the old build ing was on fire, but the news that some body had entered the building with the idea of profting from what they could find astonished those who were made cog nizant of the burglary. There have been none at that hour of the night "when graveyards yawn." Investigation, how ever, proved that some one had been in the building and that they had been in the town clerks and mayors office.
 When Janitor Morgan had telephoned the police he renewed his investigations. He found a bunch of burnt matches at the door of the selectmen's office, and the Yale lock was twisted so that it could be easily turned around in the door with the thumb and finger The door to the mayors office was unlocked and when Mr. Morgan pushed in the door pile of chairs fell
 
 of the City Registers and strewn all over the floor. Ballots, papers and boxes had also been given similar treatment The outer door of the auditors safe had been opened and the screws removed from the inner plate, but evidently no attempt had been made to open the inner door. The doors to the offices of the mayor and city auditor are provided with Yale locks, and entrance had evidently been gained by the use of step-ladder through the transom. Nothing is missing in these offices.
 The door of the town clerks office is al so provided with @ Yale lock, but Town Clerk White locks the door with the. old lock so that Janitor Morgan can get into the office in the morning. The door had been pried open and the burglars had con tinued their devastation, throwing ink all over everything and scattering papers on the floor. Here is where they made the haul. They pried open a drawer in the desk and found about $550 in money which Town Clerk White had left there Wednesday evening" They took this and evidently made their exit by means of the big door in the police court room, which was closed but unlocked this morning. It is evidently the work of amateurs and many are of the opinion that the thieves entered the building to raise hob and that the finding of the money was incidental. MT White, however, is of the opinion that the parties knew the money was there. It is certain that they were familiar with the building and had planned the burglary. Mayor Boughton, City Clerk Killduff, Councilman Chapman and reporter Of the DEMOCRAT left the building at Ii o'clock last night, Janitor Morgan closing the doors immediately :,fterward. The burglars may have entered by a cellar win dow or by window in the police court room which was found open this morning. There are numerous ways by which any one acquainted with the building could have gained admission, ransacked every room and departed without being seen by the police.
 This morning Col Doherty very success fully performed the feat of entering the mayors office through the transome and found that somebody had brushed the dust off for him, conclusively proving that the thieves entered the office by the same means. There were no tools around any where to show with what the parties had forced open Town Clerk Whites drawer and door.