The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-06-30
Cracksmen Effect Entrance to Building
and Blow Safe Open.
.BIjRGLARS-MAKE A VERY POOR HAUL

the delivery clerk put $50 Of his
own money in the safe last hight.
This was taken together with all
the registered mail packages,
Postmaster Carson is uncertain
as to what the loss will be in
stamps but twill be very small.
The large safe where all the valu-
ables and money packages are
kept was not molested. The safe
blown open was a small affair
made BY the=Gaary safe and lock
company. It was an ordinary
double door safe and was easily
opened. The burglars had drilled
a hole a short distance under the
com bination, inserted the charge
of powder and blown it open.
The mail sackso on the distributing
rack for the north line were all
rihed. A number Of packages
were opened and thrown on the
floor including several letters,
one containing a deed and other
valuable papers, addressed to a
Hubbard county homesteader.
On top Of the safe lay a Ratchet
and a large screw driver and in
front of it was a sledge hammer
and brace and bit. Investiga
ton this morning develops the
fact that these tools were taken
from Begsley's blacksmith shop
near the postoffice, the burglars
affecting an entrance through the
rear door and securing the tools.
They came in through'the side
door and had forced the lock with
the screw driver, which was
badly bent as a result. The
stamp drawer and the supply
cupboard had been g NJ through
and the thieves from present in
'dications had made a very
liesurely search Of the premises.
Yesterdays consignment OF
registered letters was, compare
lively speaking, small and the
greater part Of them were deliy-
erred before the Office closed last
night Postmaster Carson has
been afraid of something of this
sort for some time and very rarely
is any considerable sum Of money
left in the Office over night. The
building is at the extreme lower
end of the business district on
Beltrami avenue and afforded in
it's location an excellent oppor-
tunity for thieves to work un.
molested. AT least four men
must have been implicated in the
robbery. The work inside would
require the efforts of two men
and sentries were no doubt kept
at the rear and front of the build
ing to give the alarm in the event
there was any danger Of appre
hension while the job was being
done. All view Of the rear of the
office is excluded from the street
by the boxes and office furniture
and the only place it was possible
to obtain view of this portion Of
the office was from the rear
windows.
There is absolutely no clue to
the thieves. Last nightafter the
money order and general de-
livery windows had been closed
for the night two strangers came
to the stamp window and called
Postmaster Carson's attention
by rapping. One of them pur5
chased some two cent stamps.
The window was only partly
raised to make the sale, but one
of the men stopped down tosget a
look. at the interior. They are
described as a middle aged man
and a young man. Both were
stout and wore Stetson hats.
The younger man had very red
face and a general dissipated APP,
pearance. Both were strangers
to Postmaster Carson.
The theory prevails that the
job was -the work of a regularly
organized gang of cracksmen
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