The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-08
SEVEN STORES ROBBED
THIEVES MAKE A RICH HAUL IN
NEW Ia. DE- T.. BUILDING.
Considerable Cash and PIunder Sc
cured i'm the Aggregate-POIice
Are Investigating.

A number OF robberies were committed
yesterday morning in the storerooms in
the new X. of p. building. corner of Penn
sylvania street and Massachusetts avenue.
Seven stores were robbed. Clarence Cole
man, employed by Mr.. Winterrowd. a con-
f~ectioner. on opening the store yesterday
morning went to the rear of the store to
unlock a door. He found the key missing
and the door locked. He thought the mat
ter rather strange and began investigating,
as his curiosity was aroused. He found the
cash drawer open and the dollar missing
which Mr.. Winterrowd leaves every night
for change in the morning. The boy in his
further search found that several cigars
had also been taken.
The marauders also visited the store of
E. t. Wade. a dealer in cigars and tobac-
co. on Pennsylvania street, where they
took 50 and some small change, also a
number of cigars and packages of tobacco.
In the room occupied by Frank z. Maffey,
music dealer, the burglars could find no
money. They took the proprietor's hat and
placed an old cap in its stead. In the tailor
shop of O. j. Mansfield a new suit of
clothes was missing, also So worth of silk
thread. 1t was said that a clerk across
ZIG oNACCN AAOAl ~ dttO SHOP saw a man
in the store about half past 4 in the morn
ing trying on a suit of clothes. This he
regarded as a customer of Mr.. Mansfield
who had failed TO obtain his clothes Satur-
day night and was getting them early in
the morning. The music store Of the Join
er-hennedy company was also visited, but
there the thieves overlooked a five-dollar
bill which was in the cash drawer. Moth
ing was missed from this store. Harry
Nottmeyer, who keeps a furnishing store
IN me same hnlld1nR WAS also a 1nCar hr
the WORK OF the thieves. His loss consisted
Of several shirts and suits of underwear.
In the store of o. L. Ham, a ladies' fur
nishing establishment, the loss amounted
The storerooms of the Kiefer Jewelry Conn
pany, the Electrical Appliance Company
and a millinery store on Massachusetts
avenue were not entered.
The building is so constructed that a
large hall runs the entire length of the
lower floor. Ii was in that place that the
thieves worked. A ladder belonging 10 the
electrical company was procured from the
back yard. and with this each transom was
forced open. The thieves, on climbing over
the transom, would unlock the rear door
of the room, and on leaving would carefully
lock each door and keep the key. Each key
from the rear doors OF the rooms was
missing yesterday when the proprietors
opened their places Of business. 1t was
evident that the store OF Winterrowd was
last visited. as the thieves left the step
ladder in this store, leaning against the
rear door. In Mansield's tailor shop an
old market basket was left, which con-
tanned an old apron.
After a consultation OF the proprietors
the matter was reported TO the police, who
liceman on that district made his last
round about 4 o'clock, and reports every
thing at that hour in good condition. The
cap left at Maffey's music store was taken
by the police. The transom OF the Kiefer
jewelry store was fixed with iron bars
and the thieves could not enter.