The daily sentinel., 1903-04-16

that it was in the hands of band of
daring and desperate safe blowers.
This was. Notwithstanding, the case.
Burglars that were by no means am
ateur craftsmen performed early this
some feats of wholesale safe
rarely recorded. The lumber COM
panies were made the exclusive vic
Tins of their depredations. The safes
in the offices of the Mesa Lumber
company, the Ramey- Perce lumber
company and the Grand Junction
Planning Mill company, were blown
up and their contents scattered in the
four directions. An attempt was
made to get at the safe in the Office
of P. A. Rice's lumber yard but this
attempt was foiled by the presence of
an employe, A. w. Beck. So far as
yet known. Mr.. Beck is the only per-
son who saw any of the men. His
story is brief and as follows:
81 sleep in Mr. Rice's office. This
morning at about half past three l
heard some noises at the door. 1t
was forced open Id a man stepped
into the room. There We're two
others outside, L believe. When the
man saw me, he rushed out and with
his fellows ran away. About five
minutes later the men returned. but
made no effort to effect a second en-
trance. They stopped for moment
and then passed on. l dressed then
and went over to the Pastime to find
tho night marshal. This morning
when it became light. found a brace
and sledge hammer on the corner of
Fourth and Ute. These l took to t.
H. Williams, the blacksmith and he
identified them as his own.
Williams was seen at his shop on
the corner of Fifth and Ute and he
said: Eyes. those tools that Beck
found belong to me. They We're
stolen from my shop on Thursday
night. The door of the shop was
broken open on that night. did not
discover that anything was gone yes
terday morning, and as / was away
all day yesterday, l did not have any
occasion to use the missing tools.
The safe at the Ramey- -Perce Lum-
Der company had its door blown off
and through the window of the Office
where the safe stood. The metal of
which the safe-door was made was
torn like so much paper and the
earthen filling broken into smith
Greens. There was no money in the
safe. The books that were in it were
not destroyed. The papers We're
found across the street, somewhat
damaged. Some of these papers are
probably missing There were five
dollars in the money drawer in the
desk, but this the burglars did not go
after. 1t happened that Mr.. Ramey
to the Office late last night
and removed from the safe few dol
lars in silver that he had had there.
Mr.. J. A. Campbell who resides next
door to this lumber yard, says that he
heard a noise this morning early,
and he went out to his barn thinking
that the noise had occurred in that
building. Finding nothing wrong in
the barn he returned to his house and
thought nothing more about it at the
time.
The door ON the safe of the Grand
Junction Planning Mill company was
blown open and badly destroyed. In
addition to the destruction of the safe
no other damage was done as there
was no money left in it.
At the Mesa Lumber Company's
office this morning things had bad
ly broken-up appearance. The door
of their safe was lying outside in the
road. shattered desk was leaning up
against telegraph pole, the walls in
side the office were marred and
scratched and the windows smashed.
Here about S16 in cash VISA secured.
The chief damage done was to the
safe. This receptacle for valuables