Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-21


jeweler, opened up this morning he
found the optical room covered with
empty watch and ring trays, which he
knew were from the safe. Running to
the safe he found the doors closed,
hut the combination dial missing.
Throwing open the safe doors, he was
Mortified to find the safe empty, and
immediately notified Mr.. Vann.
The loss will run into the neighbor-
shcod of 100000. AS close as can be
estimated there were 23S gold watches,
over 1000 rings of all kinds, package
OF diamonds just received, valued at
$500, besides a large number of dia-
nonds in stock, seventy in number,
were taken with the valuables belong
ing to the firm. There was only $125
in cash. as they bank every day.
The robbers first attempted to gain
entrance through the door at the rear.
The strip on which the locks fasten
was broken off, but as the door was
heavily barricaded with boxes they
gave up their work at the door and
with chisels pried open the top win
dows.
After gaining entrance they opened
the rear door, by which way they left
the building.
The manner in which the safe was
cracked was the same as Solomon
benjamin & Co.'S and the Santa Fe
safes were cracked. The dial was
struck a tremendous blow with a
sledge hammer, which was found in
the rear room this morning and the
lock of the inside door was knocked in
with punches.
The only thing left from the entire
contents of the safe was a few rings,
stick pins and few small articles that
were left in several of the trays found
this morning.
Everything of any particular value
was placed in the safe at night, and
consequently the firm lost the best
part of their stock.
The universal opinion is that the
cracking was the work of the same
gang of clever crooks that did the
startling work of couple of weeks
ago.
That Albuquerque is easy picking
must have been the opinion OF the rob-
bors and they have remained in the
field looking for more of the success
ful hauls. The chances are that the
crackers have been in the city min
Cling with their pursuers all the while.
There is no clue whatever, only
few tracks in the rear room being the
only marks left behind. But the pros
poets of locating the plunderers is ex-
cellent, because the largest part of the
goods stolen can be identified if an at
tempt is made to dispose of them.
The police authorities and business
men got together this morning, after
The discovery of the surprising haul.
and took up a subscription to send for
the blood hounds at Santa Fe, which
will reach here this afternoon or this
evening.
The entire community have been
aroused by this third successful rob
berry and they will not rest nor waste
any time until the robbers have been
run to the earth.
The sledge hammer found in the op-
tical room this morning was marked
with a diamond, which is the private
mark of the Santa Fe, and came from
the local shops
The rear of the store is nearly all
doors and windows without the protec-
tion of iron bars, which are absolutely
necessary, especially to a jewelry
store. The loss to Mr.. Vann is no
tFife, as he was getting on his feet
again. No man in the city had worked
as hard to build up good business as
Mr.. Vann. The entire community SYM
pathize with him in his untimely loss
and misfortune.
This last deed will no doubt stimu-
late the authorities of the city and ter
ritory to use every effort possible to
locate the crooks who have so far
been successful in their robberies.