Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-06-29
POLISH BREWERY
WAS ROBBED

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The safe in the office of the Polish
Lithuanian Brewery was cracked Sat
urday morning The job was very
clean one indicating that professionals
might have had hand in it,although
the cracksmen were awkward enough
! to overlook the snug sum of one
hundred dollars. escaping with the
! trifie of sixteen dollars
When the day engineer appeared at
the brewery early Saturday morning
| he was surprised 10 see all tho shutters
of the office closed with the exception
of one. which was unusual, as the
shutters are usually open He men,
toned the circumstance to the night
engineer, who recalled that report
hard TO account for had been heard in
the vicinity of the brewery about 2
O'Clock An investigation showed that
| the office had been entered by thieves.
| that the safe had been blown open and
rfied.
In the, window that remained open
pane of glass had been broken out.
This enabled the burglars to reach
through and unfasten the window so
that the sash could be raised Once
inside they had closed the shutters to
conceal their movements.
The drawers including the money
drawer containing sixteen dollars was
missing, but among the contents left
behind was large wallet containing
on3 hundred dollars. The safe, which
bears the name of BARNES, - is a total
wreck. The door was not only torn
from the safe bat it was shattered to
pieces. the tough steel plate on the
outer side being rent by the force of
the explosion like that much paper.
The Cracksmen resorted to an old trick
Of twisting off the handle. which left
an aperture in which the explosive
was poured. Some powerful instru-
mont had been applied to the knob.
which gave them sufficient purchase.
The tough steel rod TO which the knob
was attached was twisted several times
around before it gave way. The point
at which it parted was at the inside
of the door, the portion remaining in
tact being twisted into the semblance
of an au9er.
What kind of explosive was used is
not known, but it was most likely
nitro glycerine. The force OF the eX
plosion seut the door back against the
wall with such force as to splinter the
wainscoting.
On the premises were found large
nail cutter,a a brace aud bit, which Sat
urday were identified as property stol
fIuiu tic proI.,+es OF OIHreuCe
Price, a carpenter living near the p.
e. K. station. There is no clue what
ever leading to the burglars. who there
is some reason to helieve were persons
familiar with movements about the
brewery.
On Friday afternoon Emil Malino-
wski, general manager, came down
from Wllk esbarre and delivered q sum
of money over to S. }. CzechowicZ,
the book keeper at the brewery. The
hundred dollars that the burglars left
behind we're of this money. Its pres
ervation was due to a trivial circum-
stance. In locking the safe Friday
evening Mr.. CzechOVicz at the last |
moment bethOught hi-Iself of a hun
dred dollars which he had in large |
wallet in side pocket. without stop |
ping to remove the cash and place it |
in the money drawer he placed wallet, |
money and all in a pigeon hole i'm
mediat5ly below the money drawer.
In the hurry aud excitement it seems
the burglars did not go any further in
their search for money than the drawer |
devoted to cash, which contained six |
teen dollars their conclusion no doubt |
being that the big wallet. carelessly
INTO the pigeon hole contain |
ed papers only. From the position
that it lay in after the robbers left it
was plain that it was picked up and
handled by the avaricious Graoksmen
little dreaming of the handsome bunch
of swag that lay right under their
noses.
During Saturday morning the boxes
belonging to the safe, which mad been
carried off, were found at the culvert
over Billiards. s run near the ID. l.. q
". station. The money. OF course was
missing, but other contents of the
boxes. among which were valuable
papers, SO far as could be determined
were all accounted for on Saturday.