Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-10-19
BOLD, BAD BURGLARS
ENTER TWO STORES
CHAS. FISCHER & SON co. AND
D. & F. KUSEL VICTIMS.
Authorities Think it Was the Work
of Amateurs in the Profession"
Small Sum of Money Taken
Other Articles AlSO-WOrkGd in
Glare of Electric Light.
CFrom Sunday S Daily.)

Discoveries of burglaries were
made yesterday morning when a couple
of the west side prominent places Of
business were opened for the day.
burglars were Charles Fischer & Son
Company, the dry goods merchants,
and d & F. Kuscl, the well known
hardware firm.
The manner in which the robbers
operated leads the victims and author
tiles to believe that the deeds were
perpetrated by E'amateurs in the pro-
fession' and that the ''job" was
pulled off, by local parties quite
familiar with the surroundings. An
effort Is being made to ferret out the
mystery as to the guilty party by the
authorities. Considerable plumber
was procured in both cases, but not
near as much as would have been sup
posed.
Entrance to the Fischer store was
effected by breaking a light Of glass
in a basement window in the rear.
The window was raised and an iron
bar broken off the inside to permit
the robbers to enter. Abundance to
the main store was gained by climb
ing the elevator shaft, the door to the
upper floor having been locked and
found intact in the morning when the
discovery was made. Evidence went
to show that the same had been tried
unsUccessfulIy. The cash drawer was
pried open and about $40 in cash
taken, together with a quantity of
postage stamps The store was ran
sacked generally. The notion depar. :
ment suffered the most, the thief evf-
IDENTIFY having a liking for jewelry 1t
was discovered that a couple of boxes
of rings were gone, also quantity
of fancy pins. Other things were
missed, but the proprletors of the
S or We're too bu Y yesterday looking
after their Saturday trade to ascertain
the exact extent of their loss.
At the KuseI store entrance WAS
effected by breaking out a pane of
glass in the door leading to the tin
shop in the rear and unfastenIng the
bolt. On the inside they encountered
a locked door at the head Of the stairs
leading to the main store from the
basement proper. This obstacle was
overcome by breaking a panel in the
door, the robber slipping his arm
through and rem owing the bolt Most
of the goods taken were removed from
show case in the front Of the store,
consisting of knives, revolvers, raz-
ors, etc. Evidences showed that the
robber visited the office for the money
drawer had been opened and a number
of postage stamps taken therefrom.
No money, however, had been left in
the till. The robber also 'nonkeyed"
with the cash register. ''Skidoo'
was evidently on his mind, fer 81 No
23'' had been pressed On the keys.
The discovery of the Kusel robbery
was first made by Henry Thiesenhusen
when he opened the place for business
in the morning. He fouEd q number
of empty razor boxes in the yard in
the rear of the store. The robbery
yesterday was the third time the
Kusel store has been robbed within
the last few years. Mr.. Charles
Fischer informed the Leader repre-
sentative that during his eleven years
of business activity here. the robbery
of yesterday was the first he has suf-
tered.
A strange feature Of the Kusel rob
berry is that light was burning in
the store all night and the show case
was robbed in The glare of the same
This leads to the belief that there
was an accomplice who stood guard on
the outside while the robber on the
inside was doing the Job