The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-04-16
Unknown Men Force Entrance In.
to Saloon Of John Thomassen
Early This Morning
GET AWAY WITH $50 IN Cash
Made Entrance to the Building by
Breaking Ope1 Side Door Work
Seems. to Have Been Done by
Men knowing Conditions

1 Line saloon OF JOnn A. In0InaSSen To-
Gated less than a. block from Main
street on Market Square and within
a stones throw Of the police office was
entered by burglars late last night OF
lthis morning and according to the state
ment of the alderman proprietor the
thieves got away with cash to the
amount Of seventy dollars. Entrance
| to the building was made by breaking
/ open the side door Of the place and it
| is evident that the men connected with
the robbery were pretty well acquainted
with the lay Of the land. The saloon
had been in charge Of Ben Hermann,
the bartender, and it was closed up just
after eleven O'Clock Monday evening.
He had locked up the storm doors at
the side of the building but it seems
that the burglars had little trouble in
forcing these open and breaking out
one of the windows Of the door they
reached through and sprung the lock
and got into the building They opened
the cash register and secured the money.
Thomassen in speaking Of the matter
this morning said that the night for
the robbery was well selected as on
most nights the money is all placed in
the safe, but that last night he had not
gone to the saloon after supper but
when he left just before five 'clock he
had placed some seventy dollars in the
drawer of the register for safe keeping
during the night. He seems to think
knew that this money had been placed
in the drawer. So far as can be seen
no liquors were taken from the saloon
but it is possible that quite a lot of
cigars and liquors might have been
taken as the past few months have been
busy times for the saloon and no in
ventory Of the stock had been taken
The robbery was reported to the po-
lice this morning but up to late hour
this afternoon no clue had been found
to the guilty parties and it is feared
that they have made good their escape
1t is evident that the old band Of
crooks is at work in Kenoshs again and
the police are planning TO take vigorous
steps to break up the gang. It looks
very much as if the robbery Of the
Hale store on Saturday night week
ago and that at the Thomassen saloon
were the work Of the same parties and
lit is probable that the robbers of the
gang are planning to live on these pet
ty robberies during the summer months.
The Thomassen saloon is in very
public place and it is hard matter to
see how it could have been entered and
robbed without some of the many Off
GERS Of the down town beats getting a
line on the guilty parties or at least
discovering that the place had been en-
tered.
The fact that the men seemed to have
been acquainted with the conditions and
the fact that there was goodly sum
|of money in the cash drawer at the sa-
loon seems to point strongly to the sus-
picion that the robbery was the work of
local crooks. For some time the police
have been watching a band of young
men who have been hanging about the
city without any visible means of sup
port and it is pretty certain that these
men will be called to give an account
ing if they do not either get to work
Isoon or leave the city.
These men are Of no value to the city
and the members Of the police force are
determined to get rid of them in some
way.