The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-02
POST OFFICE ROBBED AND HORSE
STOLEN.

STOLEN.
About two o'clock on Friday
night, or rather Saturday morning
last, Rising Sun postoffice was
broken into by burglars, who forced
the front door by boring into the
catch which holds the lock bolt anc
forcing it off. The safe was ther
drilled into, heavy charge O.
powder inserted and exploded
The charge was so large that the
safe doors were blown open, the
inside door being torn from its
hinges and driven to the opposite
side of the room along with other
contents of the safe. The front OF
the safe was torn and ripped to
pieces and the main door driven
against the window sill at the side
with such force as to indent the sill
and inch or more in depth and
several inches in length. The large
plate glass window in the front of
the building was blown out by the
concussion, onto the pavement, and
the transom glass over the door
also shattered. The window beside
which the safe stands, at the back
part of the office, strange as it may
seem, was uninjured, not pane of
glass in it being cracked.
The explosion aroused the sleep.
eTs in the nearby buildings who
hurried out to investigate to cause.
A dog in the store of i. H. Worth
ington & Son was barking furiously
and the proprietors thinking their
store was being burglarized, has
tened across the street to the store,
but after going though the building
gun in hand, and finding nothing
disturbed, the search was continued
down the street. Three doors below
they found the pavement Uttered
with broken glass in front of the
post office, where the burglary had
occurred.
The burglars secured 1886. 81 in
postage stamps and $42.47 in
money. Fifteen dollars in a shot
bag was blown out among the
debris and overlooked by the burg
lars, and also 1928 worth of stamp
ed envelopes and wrappers were
left behind.
The thieves were compelled to
use the utmost dispatch as they
could bear the people in the nearby
houses getting out. A drawer was
taken from case into which the
burglars dumped their plumber and
made off through the back yard
wnere they must have taken refuge
when the blast went off. The
drawer was found the next
day in DIR. Kinks lot, abouta hun.
dred yards away, and the tracks of
two or three men found also at the
same place and where they climbed
over the fence. The next morning
Mr.. Henry ]. Briscoe discovered
that the lock on his horse stable
door had been picked aud one of
his horses with bride, saddle and
halter gone. The superstition was
at once reached that the horse had
been taken to aid the flight of the
thieves to reach a railroad station,
and that the animal would be /
turned loose, which surmise proved
correct, the horse reaching home
the next night minns saddle, bride |
and halter, very much jammed up
and his back apparently strained, |
it being evident that two men had
ridden him and forced the animal |
over the rough roads at his best
speed.
News of the burglary and theft
Of the horse was telegraphed in all |
directions and a government detec-
tive arrived by the forenoon train
from Baltimore but the burglars |
have not be captured. A large
black overcoat button was found in |
the post Office, which might serve
as slight clue.
A stranger was in Mr.. Chapman's
watch and clock store on Friday, |
which is separated by a plaster
partition from the post office, and
against which petition the back of
the exploded safe stands. The man
viewed the partition and looked |
around while Mr.. Chapman made |
some trifiing repair to his watch
chain. A large time keeper hung
on the partition directly behind |
the exploded safe on the opposite
side. The clock was stopped by |
the.explosion at 2:07 a. M, which |
marks the time of the burglary. |
Another stranger was in the hard |
ware store of Haines & Kirk on
Friday afternoon and appeared to
be killing time only and waiting
for night. Doubtless these were
the professional cracksmen who
blew the safe. They left no tools
behind except an old chisel.