The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-03
CROOKS HOLD A CARNIVAL.
how-Window Thieves and Burglars
Having Jolly Time.
They Held High Jinlss Early Yester-
day MorninG-1hree Kids Found
With Lots of Plumber.

The festive burglar is at present par
ticuIarly numerous about town. He is
also active in making hay while the
moon does not shine, as a number OF
more or less successful raids were made
between midnight on Wednesday and
daylight yesterday morning. About .
o'clock in the morning the large plate
glass window in the front of kimball 81
Upson's gun and bicycle store, at CPS j
street, was smashed in and an attempt
made by parties presumably of sporting
proclivities to provide themselves with
very full outfit of guns and other articles.
They used piece of red sandstone lying
about the new Government building, by
tying it up in piece of a barley-sack.
which may have been brought from the
jute mill at San Quentin by its manu-
tacturer, and, making Il sling of 1t, they
knocked 4 hole between two and three
feet square in the window. Fortunately
for the safety Of about 81 GOO worth of
guns, pistols, ETC., in the window, M. \.
Kimball, a brother Of one Of the proprle-
tors, occupied a room in the rear OF the
store.
Awakened by the crash, he took his
pistol and crept softly toward the front of
the store, where he heard someone retreat
into the doorway next door, apparently
to wait and see if anyone had been aWak-
ened by the noise. After waiting few
moments someone attempted to raise the
curtain in the window. kimball not be-
ing certain that it was the person or per-
sons who broke the window, and not
wishing to run the chance of shooting an
innocent party by mistake, he fired into
the air, and Immediately he heard
couple of men run away and turn down
Seventh street toward |.
1t is too bad he did not wait until one
had entered, or partly entered, the show
window, and then filled him full of lead.
RAIDS on GROCERY STORES.
John McMorry, whose grocery store is
on the corner Of Fourth and N streets,
was also a sufferer from the gentry who
work while others sleep. Somewhere
| about o'clock one or more of them
smashed the glass door of his store. and
| fearing, perhaps, that the present drought
would send up the price of provisions,
determined to forestall a corner in the
market by laying III a stock in advance.
Entering the aperture, they helped them
| selves literally to SardineS. etc., to the
amount of about $50.
! Ed McEwen, who keeps a grocery at
the corner OF Third and \ streets, mourns
the loss of eight bottles of Snowflake
whisky and one loaf of bread, besides
shelves, the amount Of which he has not
as yet ascertained. About 4 o'clock in
the morning thieves cut a small hole
through the glass door of the saloon in
| the rear, also pane i'll the glass door in
| the front, and to pay for the trouble they
had been at entered the store and levied
on his goods to the extent stated. A lady
upstairs heard a noise, and it is supposed
I her getting up alarmed the thieves, caus-
ing them to leave their job in an untin-
ished condition.
AFTER MORE GUNS.
About o'clock in the morning Officer
| Warner detected a man trying to break
into the window of Fosters shooting gal
lery, on X street. near Third. When
Warner, who was on the opposite side of
the street, started to cross over the thief
became alarmed and made his escape
down to the alley between Second and
Third, X and l. streets, into which he
disappeared.
SOME MINOR THEFTs.
Among the many places visited yester-
day morning was the barber shop of
Manuel V. Lima, at 404 } street, where
several articles were taken.
Baker & Hamilton have lately missed a
number of small articles, including bags
of shot, and on Wednesday number of
the bags were found in Carries lumber
piles at Second and l. streets.
1t was discovered yesterday that some
time during the preceding night an over
coat was stolen from in front of NJ.
Rushes tailor shop on X street, between
Second and Third.
Machinists tools worth S25 were stolen
from John Arnold's room in the Interna-
tional Hotel night before last.
just before daylight yesterday morn
ing the door of the office of the Fifth
street Hotel was found by the driver of 8
bakery wagon to have been broken open
The proprietor was awakened, but ht
could not find that the thieves had taker
anything.
a clock valued at S25 and owned by S
B. Clark, railroad man, has been stoler
from locomotive i'll the railroad yard
1t bears the owners name.