Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-27
QUEER BURGLARS
THEY FORCE OPEN A SALOON AND TAKE a
DOLLAR,
Leaving Nine More in the Cash Notwithstanding
SCraps IN BeHwOOd Between
Husband and Wits.

A burglary which, in the opinion OF
the police, presents some peculiar fea-
lures, took place at the Buffet saloon,
at the corner of alleys B and Q, about
four o'clock yesterday morning.
That some one forced an entrance
into the building is certain, the rear
door of the bar room, opening into q
small hall, which in turn leads to alley
B at one end, and to court yard
at the other, had been pried open
with chisel, the marks of which were
plainly to be seen on the door jam. Two
chisels, one of them cold-chisel, were
found in the hall, lying behind the out
side door, by the police, and there is
but little doubt but that they were the
implements used. The partition
through which the door opens is made
OF cherry, embelished on the bar room
side With beveled mirrors. and this par
tition in the vicinity Of the door was
very badly sprung. showing that good
deal Of force had been used in getting
the door open. Inside the saloon very
little damage seems to have been done.
A large cash register sits behind the
bar, resting upon little cabinet con-
tanning two drawers, which in turn
stood upon low recess in the back-bar.
This cash register was lifted off and
carefully set upon the floor, and the
operator then wrecked the two drawers,
aud seems to have carried of the re-
mains, as they were not visible when
the police were called Ia. The cash
register was not broken, and no effort
seems to have been made to open 1t, al
though the fact that it contained money
must have been patent TO the person
lifting it down TO the floor. None OF the
wines, liquors or cigars in the saloon
seem to have been disturbed.
The fact that there had been forci-
BILE entry to the saloon was discovered
by Night Watchman Murdoch, who
made an examination Of the rear hall
way before daylight, and found the
door leading into the saloon open. he
notified the proprietor, and about q
quarter after five Chief McNlchol was
l0lOTuGu
up Market street on his way
home. He at once made an
examination of the premises and inter-
viewed Mr.. James Lsrkin, the proprie-
tor. The Chief also counted the money
in the cash register and found 1905.
He asked Mr.. Larkin how much money
he had left in the register when he
closed up. and was told S10.05. Mr..
Lsrkin said he was sure Of the amount,
because he counted it three or four
times. "Then what has become OF the
other dol2r?" asked the Chief. Mr..
Larkin said he thought the thief had
taken it. The Chief then asked Mr.
Larkin what had been taken by the
thief, and he responded that he thought
he was out about four hundred dollars,
as he usually kept q considerable
amount of money in the drawers under
the cash register, together with some
valuable papers. These papers, he said,
were also missing. The Chief was
further told by Mr.. Larkin that he
thought couple of men had been sent
down from Pittsburg to do" him, and
that he had seen a suspicious looking
man in the alley about a quarter past
three o'clock in the morning, when he
closed up, and had also seen two strange
men at the Opera House corner as be
went down street.
The Chief put Lieut.. Lukens on the
case, and later In the day Mr.. Larkin
told that official that he had not lost
any money, so far as he knew, with the
exception of the dollar taken from the
cash register. A REGISTER reporter
called at the saloon yesterday, but the
gentleman behind the bar said he knew
nothing about the robbery, except that
there had been one. He did not know
how much had been taken.