The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-10-17
SEVERAL STORES ENTERED
by Thieves Some Time Before Day
light Tuesday Morning.

Five stores in the neighborhood of
the Southern Railway station were
entered n Monday night or Tuesday
morning and robbed of small
amount of change that had been left
lin the money draws. The robbery
was discovered about six o'clock, and
was first noticed in the store of j.
| M. Maxwell, colored merchant on
Railroad avenue nearly opposite the
passenger station The robbers en-
tered this store by breaking out one
of the glasses in show window.
A few steps furthe-', on the corner
of Railroad avenue and Russell street,
lit was discovered that the glass in
lone of the doors was broken in the
same manner as Maxwell's. This
store is occupied by B. j. Mixson &:
Brother, grocers Further investi-
Egation showed that Surgeons groc-
cry store, next door to Mixson's had
also been broken into. there being a
sood-sized hole in one of the show
window glasses, and few doors low
er down on Russell street sash had
been removed from the window OF a
store occupied by negroes.
Just across from Mixson's corner
and on the side of the Southern pas
senger depot stands the store OF
Craig G. Kennedy, and even this did
not escape. An entrance was made
into this store by removing a pane of
glass from around which putty had
been scraped. This opening was not
large enough to admit full grown
person; in fact none of the holes in
the broken glasses were. which
strengthens the theory that the bug
laries were planned by men. who
probably used a boy to investigate
the interiors Of the stores.
1t is evident the robbers were after
nothing but money, as none Of the
stocks showed any signs of disorder
and apparently no goods were miss
ing. Between SO and 81 was taken
from Maxwell's store and the iron
safe showed signs Of having been
tampered with. The money secured
was change left in the till. At the
store of Craig G Kennedy S1.25 was
taken from the cash register. also a
few old coins, which were kept as
souvenirs in an unused money draw.
No cash had been left in either of
the other store, so the net cash re-
suits of the wholesale burglary were
trifling, the greatest gamage being to
the doors and windows.
The whole thingsis so wrapped in
mystery, there being, so far as is
known, absolutely no clue to the per-
petrators. The authorities, from the
mayor down, are investigating the af-
fair and it lis hardly possible that the
guilty parties will escape.
The policeman in charge Of the
beat on which the robberies occurred
states that during the time he was
in the vicinity nothing happened to
excite his suspicious, nor id he see
any strange parties; that he went
home, as is customary, after the ar
rival of tie train from Charleston,
which was about daylight. This beat
is very long one and it is thought
that the robberies took place earlier
in the morning, when the policeman
was on another part of the beat.
AS is stated above, all of the places
entered are very near the Southern
depot, several of them being in direct
view Of the station, and it is incon-
ceivable how so many glasses were
broken without arousing some of the
people in the neighborhood. Up to
this time no further developments
have been announced, but every effort
is being made towards capturing the
parties guilty of these crimes.
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