The San Francisco call., 1908-04-13
FIND TRACK
OF JEWEL THIEVES
Cracksmen Attempted to Drill
Safe in Liquor Store With
out Success Wednesday
Mystery Still Surrounds Rob-
bers Who Looted Lundy's
Stock of S45,OO0

New light has been thrown on the
sensational robbery of diamonds and
jewelry worth $4,000 from the safe in
the jewelry store of Thomas Lundy,
744 Market streetsearly Saturday morn
ing by the discovery that cracksmen at
tempted to drill in the same way the
safe in the wholesale liquor store of
werle & wiIloh at SO Market street last
Wednesday night and made bungle of
their efforts to throw the combination
tumblers
The police believe that the same men
worked in both affairs and are proceed
ing along that theory. But in the first
instance the skill that characterized the
robbery of Lundy's jewels was conspic-
uously lacking. AS result city detec-
tives and Pinkertons, who are bending
every effort to trace the daring cracks
men, are coming to believe that the men
they are after are not the clever oper-
afors they were at first supposed to be.
Just as on Lundy's safe, the robbers
drilled five-sixteenths inch hole di-
rectiy under the combination when
they entered the liquor store Wednes-
day night through a hole they chopped
in the roof. But the calculations were
not so perfect and the drill failed to
strike the tumbler pin. When they dis
covered the mistake the robbers evil
IDENTIFY became frightened, for they
smashed the cash register, secured the
small amount 1t contained and left.
SUSPECT EASTERN CROOKS
Though the police are still working on
their original theory that the job may
have been done by gang of eastern
crooks, the attempt on Werle & Will
lohs safe has now led them to suspect
that local men may also have had q
hand in the affair. Lundys safe was
not what is known as modern burglar
proof safe. 1t was more of freproof
vault That some of the many safe
mechanics who came to San Francisco
after the big fire and drilled and opened
for their various owners many safes
that were taken out of the ruins have
now turned burglars is the latest
theory.
Outside of that there were n. svel-
opments yesterday to the efforts II the
police to trail the thieves. George Wtch-
man, proprietor of the candy store
through which the robbers made their
entrance, was questioned closely in an
effort to obtain additional information
that would throw light on the burglary,
but he could furnish no clew. Three of
the girls who worked I'm his store
Marie Hadcock. Hilda Cadamold and
Lizzie Duffy-were also asked If they
could remember having seen suspicious
looking strangers about the place. They
said they had not.
JEWELER NEARLY RUINED
The cracksmen secured even more
jewels than was at first supposed. An
inventory of the stolen goods was COM
pleted by Lundy yesterday. In the list
were 1,755 diamonds, worth $21, 1,672.25
at wholesale rates; 900 gold wedding
rings, all stamped with the letter IL
on the inside; "a California gold rings,
"a solid gold watch chains, ESQ signet
rings, 195 diamond rings, 40 diamond
pins, so lockets, 40 brooches, 80 dia-
mond earrings and 10 pairs of diamond
cuff links. The total value will be
close to $4,000, the original estimate.
Thomas Lundy, the aged jeweler