St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-06
CHIEF GARVIN ROBBED.
cRAcKSMEK BORE HIS
SAFE AND LOOT IT.
DETECTIVES WILL NOT TALK.
The Work Done Between Mid
night of Sunday and Monday
Morning-Neumann Saloon Is
Also Entered, but the Burglars
Fail of Booty-Bold Daylight
Burglary.

talI OF bO0ty-bold Daylight
Burglary.
Quite the boldest thing in the way of
safe blowing that ever occurred in this,
or for that matter Ia any other city,
came Off Sunday night. Some time be-
tween midnight of Sunday and Monday
morning the safe in the Office of Chief
of Police Garvin was tackled by bur
glars and robbed of whatever valuables
1t contained. The work was not dis
covered until Monday morning, when
the clerk to the chief came to the Office.
The matter was kept very quiet, all of
the officials who were informed of the
robbery being sworn to secrecy. and not
even the night waGchman of the build
ing being questioned about it. The
'box men, were evidently pro-
fessionals, for they went to
work in handy way. and after
boring hole in the safe near the COM
bInatlon. knocked off the combination
and opened the door. As to how much
money and Yaluables were secured by
the thieves no one seems to know.
The officials deny that anything was
taken, claiming that all the money
loc ed up in The safe was i'll steel
chest. and this was not opened by the
operators.
This may or may not be so, but this is
the story of the officials. and is given
for what it is worth. Some of the de-
tective force have theory that the
thieves were after the money which
was taken from the three men who are
now i'll the county jail awaiting eX-
animation ON charge of robbing Mes
seiger Lares, of the Merchants National
bank.
TOUCHED" 4 SALOON.
After getting what they could from
the chiefs safe, the thieves visited the
saloon or Charles Neumann, at $40
Wabasha street, and proceeded to open
the safe in the saloon. Entrance was
effected by a rear window. and the safe,
which stood in the front Of the saloon
under an electric light, in plain view Of
the street was operated Oh IN the same
manner as the one in the office of
the chief of police. A hole was bored
in the door trlfle to the left of the
part Of the combination, caused by the
boring, the contents of the safe would
have been at the disposition of the
thieves From the condition OF tie
saloon wnen the proprietor arrived
Monday morning, it Is probable the men
were frightened off, as they left behind
them fine kit of tools which are now
inpOssession Of the police.
Mr. Neumann, when seen last even
ing, at first denied that anything of the
kind occurred, but finally admitted that
an attempt had been made to crack his
safe. The detectives, he said, had eau
toned him TO say nothing of the matter,
as they had a clue to the thieves, and it
it was talked about no arrests
could be made. SO badly was
the lock and combination of the
safe injured that the door had to be re-
moved and repaired by locksmlth.
Neumann said if the thieves had opened
the safe they would have had all their
pains for nothing, as there was no
money in it. Tine tools which the
thieves left in the saloon were wrapped
i'll a Chicago Herald of Aug. 2S.
ROBBED IN DAYLIGHT.
The residence of A. NJ. Knox, at SO
Summit avenue, was entered by thieves
yesterday afternoon during the absence
ofthe family, and $500 worth of jewelry
and silverware carried off. A female
member of the family returned to the
house about o'clock, and, on trying
the door, was surprised to find the door
was held by some one on the inside. She
gave the alarm, but before the police
arrived the thieves had skipped out the
back way.