Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-03
TWO soLD THIEVES.
They Force an Entrance to n Railroad
Station in Broad Daylight.

A bold piece of robbery was perpe-
trated at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
station, foot of Market street, at 3.15
o'clock Saturday afternoon. The agent
had left the Office but few minutes and
during his absence the robbery was
accomplished. The day lock was on the
safe and the outer door of the ticket
office was closed. Shortly after the
agent had left the office, carefully closed
the door behind him and sprung the
dead-latch, u passenger, who was sitting
in the waitingroom, saw two men enter
and go straight up to the office door.
The men tried the door and found it
securely locked. Then they put their
shoulders to the.panels and instantly the
door flew wide open. The men walked
as boldly in as though they had entered
their own household. Pretty soon a
passenger outside heard the cllnl1 of sill
yer within, but thought the intruders
were some persons who had right in
the private office of the big corporation,
and so paid no attention to them.
The men had not been very long in
| the office when they turned on their
heels and quickly left the room. They
| showed no concern and the passenger
in the waiting room did not trouble
himself about the strangers.
When the agent returned, in very
| few minutes, u cursory glance about the
premises impressed the railroad man
with the belief that all was not right
inside the office. Then for the first
| time the robbery was made known.
| There was no mistake about the purpose
Of the strangers who had entered the
| Office but few moments before. Their
motive was robbery, as the agent after
afterward learned, but the bold daring
of the intruders almost rendered the
agent speechless for time.
He examined the money drawer and
found it emptied of all its contents The
safe had also been plundered and the
sum of $40 in silver and grcenbacks ex-
tracted from the iron repository. The
thieves had made clever haul and sue,
cessfully effected their escape.
The agent announced the robbery al
once but no one seemed to have noticed
the perpetrators of the deed except til,
passenger who saw the men enter til,
office from the waiting room. He coult
not give good description Of the in
truders SO there was nothing for the oil
CeIs W WuTk upon. bcteCllNc MCN "
was Informed OF the robbery on SUNDAY
but unable to secure any clue to the cul
prits he thought it unwise to begin worl
upon what seemed II fruitless search TO
the robbers. Consequently the identit,
and whereabouts of the miscreants ar
unknown. AS soon as the robbery wa
discovered Agent Layton notified tn
officials Of the road by telegraph.
The robbery is considered one of tn
most daring ever committed in this city
Entrance was made in broad daylight
and at a time when people We're con
stantly passing outside and in full vicy
of the ticket office, yet no one seems I,
have noticed the robbers except the pas
senger in the waiting room. The work
was done so boldly and openly that al
suspicion Of robbery was warded off. l
is thought that the men were quit
familiar about the station and had pro
badly watched the agent put the day
lock on the safe before he tool, his de
parture.