The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-01-07
THIEVES GOT ABOUT $500 WORTH OF
GOODS and YALUABLES BUT NO MONEY
Work Looks as if Professional Burglars Did the
Job-Attempt Mas Made to Open Big Vault
Where Money and Other VaIuabIes We're Kept
Burglary Not Discovered Until Next Morning
No Clue, but Officers are Working on the Case.

The entire ground floor of the big
wholesale hardware house of the Will
liams & Davisson company on Balti.
more street, Glen Elk, was ransacked by
burglars some time during Wednesday
night early Thursday morning. Show
cases y .;re rified. valuable goods turned
topsy ystrivy, tine offices plirndered, desks
and other office recepticles pillage, and
contents OF safe ransacked and futile
Attempt nade to break into the big vault
where the valuable books, papers and
moneys of the firm are kept. The rob
bers succeeded in getting between $3.50
and $500 worth of fine goods and eseap.
ing without detection. The robbery was
one OF the largest and most daring that
has occurred in the city year, and un-
doubtedly was done by professional bur-
glars
Entrance was effected through back
window on the ground floor. The rob
bers had cut small hole in the glass Of
the window Just above the lock. The
hole was large enough to admit an in.
str,rment with which the lock was turn
/ cd and opened. The window was raised
and the men crawled into the big room.
Once inside the room the robbers be-
gan to sack the whole interior OF the
place. Evidently the Offices We're the first
places plundered in the hopes of secur-
ing money and other valuables.
All of the desks in the offices were
ransaclsed. These desks that We're lock.
ed or fastened were broken open and the
contents piiiaged. Nothing'of any value
excepting three or four desk watches
which were hanging on the pigeon-hole
!. shelving of the roll-tops were secured
from the office desks The desks OF the
general managers offices in the front
part of the building, just to the right
of the double entrance doors We're gone
through. No papers, documents or rec
orSls were removed from the desks, as the
thieves were bent only upon securing
booty that would be Of value to them
The bookkeeperis office to the right oi
uhe general managers Office was subject.
ed to a thorough ransacking, but be
sides a few valuable trinkets the bur
glars took nothing. The books and bu'
ness papers lisd been locked into the BIZ
vault in this room and were safe.
A safe in the bookkeeper's office, il
which the firm kept books of records ant
other office papers, etc, was opened an'
the contents riaed As there was moth
ing in the safe that would prove to be 6
any value to the robbers, the firm los
nothing.
An attempt to open the big vauS il
the same room was made, IA could b
seen by the traces the burglars left. Nh
big vault 6ad been built especially bur
glar proof. and it proved to be too big
thing for them.
After the Office had been completed.
ranSacked the robbers Nneh ttuheu thei
attention to the stock on The groun
floor. Show cases containing valuabl
Z and costly goods were gone througi
From twelve to fourteen fine revolver
and a big supply of cartridges were tax
en-. Two costly shot guns and variou
other valuable articles were taken. A
of the articles stolen were the most cost
" tlse burglars could lay their hand
n The cheaper goods were turne
- I. The show cases and the stock wer
a literally turned 4opsy-turvy.
- The robbery was not discovered unit
the employees OF the firm opened th
house up for business early Thursla
morning. 1t is very evidene from Il
complete ransacling the burglars d
that they started their work early du
ing the night. They must have been o