Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-06
THAT QUEER ROBBERY
AT CD KESNEYS TEA STORE SATURDAY
NIGHT.
George D. Emblem, Late the Manager, Arrested
Yesterday and he'd Under $1,000 Bail
Other Criminal Events Of Yesterday.

The REGISTER yesterday contained a
brief reference to the burglary OF c. D.
Kenney's tea store, in the new Egerter
block, at the corner Of Market and
Eleventh streets. Not a great deal was
printed about the crime, although the
details were fully known, the police de-
string to make an arrest of the party
suspected Of the crime, he being an
employe Of the store.
Yesterday morning Lieutenants Gaus
and Terrill went TO the tea store, and
met Mr.. Kenney by appointment, and
he took the officers over the place,
showing them them how an entrance
had been effected through the front
door, how the safe had been opened,
the gas pipe cut in the cellar,etc While
all this was going on a close watch was
kept on George d. Emblem, an
employe Of the store, and lately the
manager, and at the conclusion Of the
examination he was arrested and taken
before Justice Gillespy on State war
rant, aud released on $1,000 bail for an
examination on the 18th inst.
Emblem has been suspected OF the job
from the first, as there has been
a suspicion that his accounts would
not bear close inspection, and it is I'M
derstood a movement was on foot TO go
over them soon. Whether heis guilty or
not will probably be developed az the
examination. The person entering the
store was very familiar with the prem
ises, and had some object in stealing
the ledger out of the safe-a class of
plumber thieves don't usually carry Off.
An entrance was effected TO the store
in a peculiar manner. The front door
is secured with a mortise lock, having
a large ornamental metal plate on
the outside. The outside metal ring
around the knob shaft is screwed on,
and by giving il a few turns the ring
and outside knob come of, leaving a
hole into the lock. BY putting ones
fingers into this hole, the bolt OF the
lock can be pushed back, and the door
opened, ana the knob being screwed on,
leaves no sign of how the entrance had
been made. 1t was in this manner the
door was opened about eleven o'clock
Saturday night. Mr.. Emblem had
no key, Mr.. Kenney having obtained IL
from him some days ago. When the
thief got inside the store. be opened the
safe by turning the combination, and
took out S9l.S5 in cash aud the ledger.
He then went TO the cellar, and with
Ratchet cut two gashes in
an inch-and-a-haLf gas pipe, thus
allowing large volumes OF gas to es-
cane. and when the building was opened
on Sunday and the robbery discovered
there was enough gas in the place to
have blown up the house. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY the design of the thief 10 have
this gas catch fire and thus either de-
strov the building, or at least hide all
evidence of the crime. Had such an
explosion taken place, loss of life must
have inevitably followed.
Mr.. Emblem lives on the Island, but
his wife has been staying at the Nichols
farm, back of MI. Wood, for some time.
Between IL aud - o'clock Saturday
night Emblem crossed about half way
over the Suspension Bridge, towards
the Island, and then came back TO the
city, aud Sunday went up to
the farm where his wife was.
When asked yesterday why he
started home he said he was going over
for a pair of boxing gloves, but when
he got about half way over the bridge
he "recollected l had boil on my lip,
aud concluded 1 had no use for the
gloves"
An examination of Emblem's accounts
will be at once set on foot by Mr..
Kenney.