Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-06-30
DANv1ILE.
POLISH BREWERY
WAS ROBBED

The safe in the office of the Polisl
Lithuanian Brewery was cracked Sat
urday morning. The job was yer!
clean one indicating that professional
might have had hand in it. .althou 81
the cracksmen were awkward enoug
to overlook the snug sum Of on
hundred dollars. escaping with th'
trifie of sixteen dollars.
When the day engineer appeared .
the brewery early Saturday morning
he was surprised to see all the shutterl
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 a report
hard to account for had been heard in
the vicinity of the brewery about
O'Clock. An investigation showed thai
the office had been entered by thieves
that the safe had been blown open ant
rified.
In the window that remained open
pane OF glass had been broken out.
This enabled the burglars to reaol
through and unfasten the window sc
that the sash could be raised. Onc'
inside they had closed the shutters tt
conceal their movements.
The drawers including the money
drawer containing sixteen dollars was
missing, but among the contents lef
behind was large wallet containing
one hundred dollars. The safe, which
bears the name of Barnes. is a tota
wreck. The door was not only tori
from the safe but 1t was shattered tt
pieces, the tough steel plate on tht
outer side being rent by the force Of
the explosion like that much paper
| The crack smeu resorted to an old trick
| of twisting off the handle. which lef
an aperture in which the explosive
was poured. Some powerful instru
ment had been applied to. the knob,
which gave them sufficient purchase
The tough steel rod to which the knot
was attached was twisted several time
around before it gave way. The poin
at which it parted was at the inside
of the door, the portion remaining in
tact being twisted into the semblanct
of an auger.
What kind of explosive was used i.
not known. but it was most likely
nitro glycerine. The force of the ex
plosion sent the door back against the
wall with such force as to splinter the
wainsooting.
On the premises were found a large
nail cutter,s brace and bit. which Sat.
urday we're identified as property stol
en- from the premises of Clarence
Price, a carpenter living near the p
q. r. station. There is no clue what
ever leading to the burglars. who there
is some reason to believe were persons
| familiar with movements about the
brewery.
On Friday afternoon Emil Malino
wski, general manager, came down
from Wilkesbarre and delivered sun
of money over to 8. J. Ozechowioz,
the book keeper at the brewery. The
hundred dollars that the burglars left
behind were of this money. Its pres
ervation was due to trivial circum
stance. In locking the safe Friday
evening Mr.. Czechowicz at the last
moment bethought himself of hun
dred dollars which he had in a large
wallet in a side pocket. Without stop
ping to remove the cash and place il
| in the money drawer he placed wallet
money and all in pigeon hole i'm
mediately below the money drawer.
In the hurry and 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 dou bt
being that the big wallet. carelessly
rammed into the pigeon hole contain
ed papers only. From the position
that it lay in after the robbers left il
was plain that it was picked up and
handled by the avaricious oracksmer
little dreaming of the handsome bunol
of swag that lay right under theil
noses.
During Saturday morning the boxe!
belonging to the safe, which mad beer
carried off, were found at the culver
over Billiards. run near the d. l.. &
W. station. The money, OF course wa
missing, but other contents Of thu
boxes. among which we're valuable
papers, SO far as could be determined
were all accounted for on Saturday.