Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-08-13
BURGLARS BUSY BURGIANG
o. II. Il n. Depot Robbed by Yegg-
men Who Get Small Booty.
Cook House Rifled

ed the o. r. & N. depot, by prying
open the door to the frei ght room,
and secured a lot of plumber which
they took into the "jungles" below
the depot along the creek banks,
and dumped out upon the ground.
There was little of value to the
thieves and after sorting it over
and getting the few articles that
suited their fancy the remainder was
left lying where it had been dump
ed while the burglars made a get
away
The burglars got two suit cases,
three telescopes, a drummers sam
pie case containing heavy hardware,
mostly steels bits, and several rolls
of blankets were taken. Several
rolls of bedding and some boxes were
cut or broken open and the contents
| dumped out on the scales in the
warehouse. 1t is estimated that
about 500 worth of plumber was
taken from the depot and not recov-
cred The grips, suit cases and tele-
scopes were mostly owned by labor
ing men who had come here to seek
work and had checked their grips
to Pullman. They contained little
but clothing. One man claimed to
have lost some diamonds, rubies, gar
nets and other precious stones which
he said were in his suit case, but
the railroad company only pays for
clothing when lost or stolen after
| it has been checked as baggage, and
such property as this man claims
was taken it will be his own loss
That a man would check a suit case
containing precious stones, and that
man seeking work in the harvest
fields, as this man claims to have
been doing, should have such valu-
ables, is surprising and the officers
express doubt as to his Story
An o. R. & n. detective came up
from Portland and assisted in run
ming down clues, but found nothing
that would lead to the identity of
the burglars. Deputy Sheriff J. A.
ROtan came up and spent a day and
half here, and made a roundup of
suspicious characters, taking ten of
them to Colfax with him Saturday
evening. One of these was charged
with smoking cigarettes; one with
vagrancy and eight with having rob-
bed Frank Paulis' cook house.
When Paulis' cook went to the
cook house to get breakfast for the
harvest hands Saturday morning he
found the cook house resembled
"Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, ."
for thieves had entered in the night
and had stolen everything eatable
in the cook house and even packed
off a lot of the dishes. These were
found scattered around on the ground
and a trail followed to town showed
that there was a large gang of the
robbers. Two were caught who con-
fessed to the cook house robbery
and gave the identity of the other
six, who were captured and taken to
Colfax
1t is thought that this is the gang
which came up from Snake river
and spent the preceding night in
the COW barn on j. s. Klemgards
farm, ten miles southwest of town.
When the renter went to milk the
COWS in the morning he climbed up
in the hay NOW and stuck a fork
into the hay. He was startled to
find he had stuck a man, who lost
no time in crawling out. Two others
were discovered and driven out of
the hay NOW and as the man finish
ed milking five others came out of
the hay NOW and started out to-
ward the road.
Since the general roundup last
Saturday there have been no depre-
dations reported and it is believed
that the town is pretty we'll cleaned
up now and that the criminals who
follow the harvest hands in hope of
being able to rob them or rob others
during the harvest season, are pretty
well driven out of Pullman