Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-23
PaSSmOre Paper Store Robbed
Saturday Night
OF ASSORTMENT OF GOODS
No Attention Was Paid to C0mpar-
alive Values--Discovery Was
Made Yesterday.

The PassmOre. Paper company. at 35
East Granite street, was burglarized on
Saturday night or Sunday morning, and
the manner in which the work was done
leads to the conclusion that boys were
responsible for it.
There We're no evidences that the
thieves attempted to tamper with the safe
or the money drawer, and the articles
taken are those which would naturally
appeal to the fancy of a boy. AS far as
could be determined today the articles
taken were valued at between $50 and
500, and consisted of perfumes, pins,
tablets, pencils, fancy soap, combs, match
boxes, penholders, erasers, rubber goods,
pencil sharpeners, twines, etc. There was
an absolute lack of system, and the bur-
glars apparently made an effort to get
an assortment of goods without taking
the question of values into consideration
One of the first things noticed was a
bundle containing balls of white Irvine,
and Mr.. Passmore is inclined to laugh
every time he ook at it. The sack had
been ripped open and about a dozen balls
taken, probably for the purpose of kite
flying. This was a fair sample of the
work of the burglars. Boxes containing
expensive combs had been torn open and
a single comb taken. A card containing
pencil sharpeners was robbed of half it's
contents and the balance left on the
card. All kinds of bundles were torn
open to see What they contained, and the
place had been ged from base
ment to loft.
Yesterday afternoon Edward Pass
more, son of j. w. Passmore, the proprie-
tor, had occasion to go into the store,
noticed that the stock was scattered
about everywhere. He saw his father
later and told him that his stock-keeper
must be a very careless man. He also
told him that he had found the side door
ajar and had closed and secured it. Mr..
not dreaming about the rob-
berry, took the complaint good naturally
and assured his son that the stock-keeper
was a very careful man. This morning
when he and his salesman, Max Coddon,
entered the store they at once realized
what had happened. The stack of pen
ellis in the office room was in a state of
disorder, and an empty sample case that
had contained perfumes lay on the floor.
After one glance around, Mr.. Coddon eX-
claimed:
I'VE have been robbed!'
An investigation showed that an en-
trance had been effected through a rear
door that communicated with an empty
store-roOm. The glass panel in the door
had been broken and the thieves. pre-
sumably boys, had slipped through the
opening thus made. Their exit was made
through a side door. Evidences of their
visit was on all hands. They had gone
through the basement, the three rooms
on the main floor and through the loft
in the rear. A package of small cotton
sacks had been opened and a number of
them had apparently been utilized as re-
ceptacles for the stolen articles. In the
office room a number of boxes of pencils
We're missing and other boxes had been
opened, but the contents were untouched
Cards containing fancy pens Were
stripped Of their contents; boxes of fancy
soap, rubber match boxe and numerous
small articles had been added to the
booty. Packages containing ledgerS,
~day-books, etc, had been opened and
scattered about the floor, and there were
but few bundles that had not received