The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-28
CASH DRAWER
IS EnPIIED
Police Working on Clew That May
Lead to the Capture of Young
Thieves Who Make Wholesale
Haul During Midnight Hours on
State Street.
INVENTORY OF PLUMBER


BY BOY THIEVES.
Two brown plaid suits, sizes 80 and
Ss. Value $40. each.
Twelve Knickerbocker chiIdren,s
suits. Value, IS. each.
Eight to ten boxes OF silk handker.
chiefs. Six to dozen in q box.
Two to four pairs of shoes, sizes to
4. Value, 81. to 50.
Two soft hats, sizes 9 to ?. vaIne,
81. each.
Two suit cases, one of double size.
Value, S.. each.
Gun buttons una stick pins. valued
about $40.
Several neck ties. vaIue, appro7i-
mateIy 80 cent. each.
Cash to the nnnou1at OF s.. or 81. takers
from drawer.
One OF the boldest robhertes that has
been perpetrated in years IN Hammond
was pulled off by two boys apparently
not more than. u to Is years old. who
broke the lock from the rear door Or
the ''E. & F." clothing store on State
street and carried away considerable
valuable merchandise.
The burglary was committed in the
heart of the business district some time
after twelve o'clock The rear of the
ings over the windows and there was
heavy door of bar iron to protect the
rear entrance.
The boys secured crow bar some
where and it did not take them long
to pry off the heavy brass lock. They
then swung open the iron door and with
q few jabs of the crowbar pried open
the wooden door and broke the lock on
it
Upon entering the store they appar-
emily picked out the goods they ex-
pected to steal with more regard 10
their own needs than the prospect of
disposing of the plunder.
1t is believed that they first picked
out a suit case and then filled it with
the things that they needed most. The
fact that suit cases were taken would
indicate. that the boys intended to leave
town after they had made their raid
Police Think They Were Boys.
The fact that the thieves were boys
is Enthusiastically established by the loot
which was taken and by the manner in
which the robbery was committed. The
above inventory is proof enough to the
police that the burglars were boys.
Abe Marks, the proprietor of the
store discovered the robbery when he
arrived in the store this morning and
found the entire place in disorder.
There were shoe boxes all over the floor
indicating the fact that the boys had
eoolly tried on shoe after shoe until
they found what they wanted
The piles of clothing were all dis-
arranged and the goods in the show
cases showed that they had been gone
over. While light is usually left
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that it had been extinguished and this
first lead to the suspicion that the store
had been entered.
other Cities Notified.
The police were called and at once
took the above inventory of the goods
which will be sent to all of the sur
rounding cities in the hope that the
boys may be caught If they try to dis
pose of any of their plunder.
/ While the inventory is fairly ac-
curate it is Believed that other things
will be found missing when a closer
inspection of the stock is made One
of the fortunate things about the rob-
berry is the fact that there was not
more than 81. or SIS. In the cash drawer
and the thieves did not get much actual
cash.
several dollars In patent nickel IN
the slot collar button machine were
overlooked. The dents In the casing
of the door which was broken open in
dicate that 1t must have required con-
siderable force to break down the OBJ
struction and how It happened that all
of that pounding could have been done
late at midnight without arousing some
one is a mystery.
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This morning F. G. Miller of 241
State street found pair Of trousers
in the alley near Swanson's barn where
he keeps HIS horse. The trousers were
new and still had the price tags on
them 1t is supposed that they were
discarded for some reason or another
when the boys were making their get
away