Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-04
EL pSSO SAFE
IS BLOWN OPEN
BY CRACksMEN
Professionals Get Only a Small
Sum From Brokerage Office
For Their Trouble and Risk.
No Clues.

by the cfdckSmen- Il nc wal ShVuSS -
located on West San Antonio street,
Just on Durango and one block south
of San Francisco street The work
was done by professional burglars,
or yeggmen as they are known to
the profession and IT is thought that
they made their get away on an S. p.
fire ght train soon after the safe was
cracked. That the work was not done
by local talent is evidenced by the
workmanlike manner in which the
door of the safe was blown on, the
professional crackmen's soap intro
glycerine), syringe and pick being
used.
The safe Is In the office of the build
ing, on the south side, the entrance
being from Durango street. The ex-
plosion was heard by a Mexican fam
lily living in the adobe house just
south of the building. the Mexican wo-
man saying that 1t awakened her
about l o'clock Sunday morning, but
she gave no alarm. The interior OF
the office was completely upset, a
number of the windows around the
inside wallis of the office being blown
out and a large window on the south
side also demolished.
Professional Job.
The safe cracking was done in a
most professional manner, showing
that the men were not amateurs at
the safe blowing game. A cup shaped
ridge of yellow soap was made along
the upper edge of the safe door, and
a bottle of nitrogylcerine poured into
this improvised receptacle. The liquid
explosive, or "soup," as 1t is called
by the yeggmen, was poured into this
cup shaped projection, trickling
through the crack where the door
meets the walls of the safe. In this
way the .'soup" pevcolated every part
of the crack formed by the door, and
when dynamite cap was touched of
by the yeggs, the safe door was blown
off its hinges, bent almost double oy
the force of the explosion and hurled
across the office, where it struck
table leg, breaking it into splinters.
Obtain Small Sum.
The soap was thrown all over the
walls of the building, the ornamental
strip, of metal across the top of TIE
safe being embedded in the opposite
wall, the clay lined door was blown
apart, and the fire clay scattered over
the entire room.
One of the peculiar freaks OF the
explosion was that the iron rollers on
which the safe rested, were complete
ly reversed by the concussion, as IL
they might have been twisted around
by some giants hand. None of the
contents of the safe were disturbed,
either by the explosion or the burg
lars, with the exception of the two
money drawers, which were taken
from their grooves and carried to the
back of the warehouse, where the
cash, amounting to about S125, was
taken by the cracksmen, leaving a
large number of checks and 65 cents
in pennies in the drawer for a nest
egg. .
A number of tools used in entering
the building and In cracking the safe
were left behind oy the men in their
haste to get away with the swag. The
Victor steel saw useo to remove the
iron bar from the basement window
was left just inside the window. Up
stairs In the Office IL ere was left an
ordinary laborer's pick and a claw
hammer, which were evidently used to
pry on the sheet metal door on the
inside of the safe. The empty whis-
ky bottle that had contained the
soup" that had done the work was
also left on the floor of the Office,
together with a red bandana handker-
chief, a syringe for injecting the ex-
plosive, and two candles, one OF which
had not been used,
The money drawers beionging in
the safe were found near metallic
roller door at the north end of the
main warehouse, where the Doodle
had doubtless been divided, as the
tracks leading FROM this door show
that the men separated, each going
in different direction.
May Have Been Three Men.
Billie Smith, chief of detectives, VINO
is at work on the case, says that the
work was too well done to have been
performed by local talent; the soap,
the soup" and the pick AK being a
part of the professional yeggman's kIl
which they pick up in each town
where they expect to operate, carry.
ing nothing with them that would tend
TO be discriminating in case they
should be arrested. It cannot be
definitely determined whether there
were two or three CT the burglars
there being three sefs of tracks lead.
ing away from the north door. One
track leads around the west corner
Of the building. another goes north,
east towards Durango street, whine
g third and smaller one which looks1
ss IL it had been male by boys foo,
leads through the yard of the old Fl
Paso foundry, terminating on San
Francisco street.
Carefully Selected.
The robbery was discovered about
s O'Clock Sunday mcrnmg, when one
Of tie drivers for the company went
to Ire warehouse to get a turkey out
of the refrigerator for his Sunday din
uer. When he opened the Office door
the place was a litter OF dirt. ,rnken
glass and pieces of the safe. Both Of
the large tables In the room were
smashed and the -w5 windows direct.
ly over the safe were broken into bits
The place where tine safe cracking
was done. was an ideal one for the
work, It being back IRON San Frances
co street and hidden from view by
the walls OF the old foundry. The
window where the entrance was fore
ed Is under the loading platform on
the north side, and It would be i'm
possible to detect anyone entering
through It. AS II Is the custom OF
the members Of this profession to 10
cate a safe near a railroad track IN
order that the explosic1 may be toucn-
ed on while a train Is passing, fne
Loretz 4 Kepiey safe was evidently
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