Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-04
WESTERLY MILL OFFICE BURGLARS
Were Deft and in Not Securing
Cash for thursday Fay Day--am- and Went in
Auto-LO O. F. appointment for William J. Bamford

| The burglars that visited the Office
of the William Clark thread mill in
were certainly expert and neat work
men in their special line >The office is
a one-story brick structure, separate
from the big four-story brick mill
building, the entrance being about
thirty feet from the tracks of the
Groton and Stonington Street Railway
company, and directly opposite the
house occupied in part by William Nc
Carroll a motorman on the Pawcatuck
Valley road.
Entry was made through a front
window which was so carefully opened
that hardly the trace of the jimmy was
discernfble. Once inside this front Of
flee, the computing machine, which
stood in front of the window, and sew
eral typeWriterS were carefully moved
aside the intruders evidently making
the visit for the sole purpose of OBJ
tanning cash and without doing any
more damage than absolutely neceS-
sary.
They made their way to the main
office, where the large double doored
safe was located, and proceeded to get
at the inside. With a big Stillson
wrench the handle on the right hand
door of the safe was twisted off and
the charge of nitro -glycerine placed in
the Aperture, the charge being just
sufficient to loosen that door, the
sound of the explosion being deadened
by horse blankets. This door was then
pried off and all this was effected
without breaking a window, disturbing
the plastering or doing the slightest
damage except to the half door of the
safe.
The burglars took out the cash
drawer and pocketed the contents,
about 1892, leaving a. pay envelope con-
tanning IS cents. They stole a medal
priced by Mr.. Clark which he won
years ago in a championship amateur
boat race and also a pair of diamond
initial cuff buttons. The papers in the
safe We're overhauled, but not torn and
the books were undisturbed. An open
envelope containing $50, the property
of Harry Bolles of the Office force, was
overlooked.
1t is evident that before going to
work in the thread mill Office the
burglars visited the barn of the Stan
dard Oil company in quest of tools that
boxes on the wagons were broken and
the locks wrenched from the barn
door. The burglars took six horse
blankets, two Stillson wrenches and a
hammer from this place to the thread
mill office and left them there when
the job was completed
They must have commenced work
soon after 130, for at that hour the
Waterman, George Kitchen, left the
office for his hour and a half trip about
the mill property; he discovered the
safe robbery on his return to the office
at o'clock. He at once notified Mr..
Clark and the facts were reported to
Deputy Sheriff Casey.
Mr.. McCarroH returned home at
1890; he did not notice anyone in the
vicinity and heard no noise of explo-
sion or anything else during the night.
Len, Chapman, who lives about mid
way from the mill office to the Stan
dard Oil plant, was aroused about
O'Clock in the morning by the barking
of his dog. He looked out of the win
dow and saw an automobile, without
lights and containing three men. The
machine was moving slowly. 1t is be-
lieved that the burglars are the same
who have been working in Rhode Isl
and and Connecticut during the past
few months, travelling in an automo-