The daily sentinel., 1905-05-23

THE FASHION
STORE ROBBED

Again robbers made Il rich haul
in this city. The Fashion store
was entered by burglars last night
ana u large quantity of fine silks
were carried away. The loss To
the store may reach $1,000.
The robbery was probably commit
ted in the early part of the evening.
as the Elks We're enjoying their so
cial in their rooms in the second
story of the building. and the bur
glars We're to a certain extent pro-
tected from discovery. the singing
and talking in the club rooms de
| tracing attention from the lower
floor.
The windows in the rear of the
Fashion store are not protected by
iron bars. The housebreakers cut he
screen from the window next to the
western wall of the building. sprung
the lock on the window, raised the
window and entered the building.
On the extreme front end OF the
lower and second shelves that run
along the western wall were ar
ranged the bolts of fine black silks
China silks and the many patterns
of silk shirt waist suitings These
finest dress goods in the house. On
either side of the silks were dis
played other goods of less value. The
silk shirt waist patterns were on the
second shelf. The burglars. evident
ly having located the goods they
wanted before hand, went to this sec
ton of the house and loaded gunny
sacks with the costly goods. Every
bolt of the full silks arranged on
these shelves was taken. Not a bolt
of the goods OF lesser value was dis
turbed. After having secured what
they wanted, the burglars pried the
rear door of the building open and
made their escape.
This morning on opening the store
the proprietors found that the house
had been robbed. The silks were
missed at once. On the floor below
the shelves was found an empty gun
ny sack. ragged and well worn. The
burglars. evidently finding that they
had no use for this one. left il in
the building. The back door was
found open and was unlocked.
The city and county officers We're
notified at once and a rigid search is
being made.
Mr. Stanek. the head clerk of the
Fashion, stated to a Sentinel reporter
this morning that yesterday after
noon two men entered the store and
one of them approached him and
asked to see some silk handker-
chiefs. Both were hard-lookinE Gus
toners. dressed roughly and had the
appearance of hoboes. Mr.. Stanek
thought it was strange that such
characters desired to purchase silk
He scrutinized each
man closely. While one was asking
Mr.. Stanek for the handkerchiets.
the other man walked up and down
the aisle between the counter on the
western side of the building and
the display tables. He was looking
in a very Interested manner al the
silks and other dress goods arranged
on the shelves.
Mr.. Stanek told the man he had no
silk handkerchiefs such as he desired
and after a few words both men letl
the store without making any pur-
chases. The actions OF these men
aroused MIR. Stanek's suspicious to
certain degree. He gave the officers
a complete description of each OF the
two men this morning, and search
is being made for the men.
Evidently, if these two men were
the burglars, they located the silks
and were desirous of locating the
silk handkerchiefs in order to appro--
pirate the latter when they entered
the store. a..
1t is difficult to approximate the
loss. Mr.. Shellenberger states thai
it will not be much If any less than
$1,000. 1t does not take great
quantity of silks to amount to good
sized sum of money.
The silks taken were goods Of the
finest quality and the entire STOCK oi
dently the thieves we're capable judg-
es of silks, as not a piece of inferior
stuff was taken.
The officers are leaving no stone
unturned toward detecting ana 10
ling the thieves. Burglaries are
Getting to be frequent occurrences IN
The city and county and many think
that one organized gang is doing an
the work.