Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-20
SUCCESSFUL BURGLARY.
Theodore Blauth Robbed of Twenty
Three Hundred Dollars


Three Hundred Dollars.
A successful burglary was perpetrated at
the Vienna beer hall, on X street, between
Fourth and Fifth, at an early hour yester-
day morning. When the bar-keeper
opened the saloon at 5 o'clock he found
the Office, which is situated at the end of
the bar nearest X street. in a state of dis.
order, the books and papers being scattered
about promiscuously. The police were
notified and Chief Dillman and officer
Sullivan were soon on hand 1t was found
that the burglars had entered by a trap
door on the sidewalk on Fourth
street, thence into the yard back of
Hammers drugstore and over the fence to
the back door of the saloon. BY boring a
number of holes with a five eighths bit thew
made an opening large enough for hand
to pass through, and unlocked the door
with the key that had been left on the in
side. Two holes had been drilled through
the safe, between the lock and knob, a
punch inserted, and the lock shattered.
The cash-box had been torn out and car
ried of, the burglars leaving by the front
door. They left behind them nickel
plated brace and five-eighths bit. and a
small oiler. The brace had been used con-
siderably, and had black thread wound
round the handle.
The contents of the cash box was
$1,000 in coin; check from Bell g.
Waldyer, of 0roville, on Rideout's Bank,
for $22S 25; check from E. Wertheim, on
the California State Bank, for b3S; post
Office order for S. from John n. Andrews.
of ELK Grove, and two 81 greenbacks.
The job was not done with the skill of
experienced craftsmen, but the burglars
left no clew out of which the police have
as yet been able to make anything
The proprietor of the place, Theodore
Blauth, is the agent for Weiland's beer, and
had intended to send off remittance Of
$1,000 yesterday morning.
About 2;40 A. NJ, as an attache of the
REcoRD-UNIoN was on his way home he
saw two men at Ninth and K reefs hold a
brief consultation and then separate They
were on the corner by Willis & Rays drug
store, and appeared to have come from the
direction of J street. but probably had
emerged from the alley. As the news
paper man appeared at the corner of Hale's
block, the two separated, one going up X
street on the north side, and the other
across the street. As the latter passed I'M
der the electric light it was noticed that he
had something under his short coat which
tut 10 DuISe out De-
hind. They were rough-looking fellows.
and the first thought of the
person who encountered them was that
they had been on burglars raid, and that
the one who was crossing the street carried
the tools under his coat. The latter. how
ever, was either drunk or assumed drunk
enness, as he went along in slow, SLOUGH
ing manner. staggering little, and the cit
izen. who crossed the street diagonally and
close to him, concluded that he had a bot.
tie of whisky under his coat (as well as
load under his skim and paid no further
attention to him except to notice that he
moved down X street on the south side.
The other fellow continued slowly up the
north side of K, but when the RECORD
UNION man had reached the corner of
Tenth the other had either stopped midway
in the block or turned back as be was not
in sight
The unreasonable hour, the suspicious
manner in which the men acted, and the
fact Of one hiding something under his
coat, all point to the pair as the probable
perpetrators of the robbery. They had
doubtless made their way through the
alley to Ninth street and were heading for
the suburbs when encountered, but deemed
1t advisable then to separate and assume
the antics of men who were returning to
their homes from protracted booze.