Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-10-22
PosToFFIcE ENTEREo.
Safe Cracked and Stamps, Receipts
end q Little Cash Taken.

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end a Little Cash Taken.
About 20 minutes past one O'Clock
Monday morning. the sound OF an explo-
sion awoke the echoes and few sleepers
In the Square. notably G. w. Hayward
OF the Randolph Inn, some guests Of the
house and the men in the Gay livery sta
BILE. Mr.. Hayward had his curiosity
sufficiently aroused to call up the New
England Telephone Office and the depot
to inquire into the disturbance but as
neither place had any information to inn
part, he then went downstairs to the
street to look around little.
Looking around beyond the radius Of
an inch was out of the question on
account Of the pitch blackness Of the
night and the entire absence Of street
lights due to the crippled power of the
Gaysyille company since the long drouth
has lowered its water supply. The
streets were dark and still and everything
was quiet in the Panton meat Market.
from which it was thought the noise
might have proceeded. Others awakened
by the sound waited a second to hear
something more and then forgot all about
the matter in q new dream.
When Postmaster ]. b. Eldredge came
down town at $3.50 o'clock to open the
Office a curious scene met his eyes The
safe in the inner Office was empty, its
doors blown on, its sides splintered and q
piece OF its steel walls driven into the
side of the Office 80 firmly that It could
not be dislodged with the hands. On
the floor was a mass of debris. papers.
scattered coin, piece of isinglass, safe
doors, bits Of iron and steel and two cold
chlseis-the last dropped by the burglars,
no doubt, when Mr.. Hayward's tramping
about overhead in the Inn Office caused
them to take SO hasty a departure that
they failed even to pick up everything of
value the safe contained.
They carried away, however, one and
two-cenr stamps to the amount of Se0.S1
and f22.Ss IN cash, OF which SIS was q
trust fund held BY Mr.. Eldredge for the
BARRIERS Of the village, who, sometime ago
put up IS apiece as pledge of good faith
to mutual agreement in regard to the
conduct Of their business. All the post
Office receipts and Mr.. Eldredge's private
papers were taken.
In their haste the burglars overlooked g
package Of large-denomination stamps to
the value of about $500, an envelope con-
tainIng ga and less than q dollars worth
of silver. Part OF the one and two-cent
stamps had been deposited In the bank,
and it is not the postmaster's habit to
leave any amount of money in the ofice
over night
Entrance to the outer office was made
through the north door, which was pried
open, the bolt of the lock, quarter Of an
inch thick, being bent out Of the striker
/ without tearing the latter from the janb.
The money order window was then pried
l up and the men either climbed through
|1ws - H.
I open the door lust nf its side. Mr.. FL
dredge found that door wide open and
the north outside door ajar. A piece OF
steel was driven by the explosion
though the wire netting over the boxes
and the upper part Of the plate glass win
dow opposite, making hole sonnet hing
like bullet hole.
Postoffice Inspector Howard Shafer ar
rived Tuesday from Burlington and went
over the affairs of the office to determine
the governments exact loss. There is no
clue to the burglars except that they are
believed to be the same two men who
rif1ed the postofice at South Hero Friday
night and whom efforts are being made to
apprehend.
Hersom-- Thayer.
Ralph @. Hersom Of Belgrade, Me-. and
mss A-aaAAAN1 OAAAs Ndu2ut VI AAE. aHu
Mrs. l. p. Thayer, were united in mar
riage at 80 O'Clock last evening at the
home of the brides parents in Essex
Junction. Rev. Homer White OF RAN
dolph, longtime friend and former rec
tor Of the Thayer family, was the ofIiciat-
ing clergyman.
Aside from the immediate members of
the family, the only wedding guests were
Mrs. George f. Cheney Of st. Johnsbury,
Mrs. Homer White, Misses Alice McIn-
tyre, Helen Wedgwood, Catherine Metz
ger and Genieve Lamson Of Randolph,
George Drew of Woodstock and M. c.
Reynolds OF Burlington.
! After trip to Boston and New York,
Mr.. and Mrs Hersom will 60 to their fu-
ture home in Louisville, Ky.