The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-20
Scaled PiazzaS IN Rear Of
United Fruit Co.'S Store
FOUND DOOR UNLOCKED
Much Loot Secured st an Early Hour
This Morning Unsuccessfu At
tempt to Break into Wool
wcrth's Store.

One burglary and one attempted burg
larry Of Barre stores we're added "a th
criminal calendar Of this city ozer Sun
day. The successful entry was IN the
store Of the United Fruit company in the
Campbell granite building On No. Main
street, and the failure vas III Wool
worth's Five and Ten-oent store
Tne robbery Of ths fruit store. which
took place some time this morning pre-
sumably about three o'clock. was one Of
the most daring yet attempted in Barre.
On the back side Of ths block there are
two verandas overhanging the river. The
thief pulled himself up from the water
which is not deep at this point, ~ means
Of 3 wire From We lower verands, II
was an easy matter to reach the upper
one, which is always piled high vita
boxes and refuse.
For this reason, The rear door Of the
store Is never lacked, 80 when the burg
lar gained the second vsranda he went
without hindranoe to the large cash req
lister, which, being locked, BE- was obliged
to force open with the aid Of screw
driver or some other tool similar in
shape. Here he secured bills and change
amounting to over 80. tits thought that
he tried to force . smaller cash register
on the opposite side Of the store.
A small quantity Of candy and fruit
and 4 box of cigars was also tsksn, and
IL is thought that tbs thief became
frightened while loading Up with tobac-
60, a. cigars and cigarette boxes, atrswn
along the foor from the front TO the
back Of the store, point to rather
hasty departure.
Suspicion as 10 the guilty ones points
strongly to couple uf strangers, who
made frequent visits To The store during
the day and were canghs several times
il the Az q making " apparautlv
ard 6 Maniatty
4 Would-be burglar foand hlmself
eolled whsn he tried Sunday morning 70
break into Woolworths Eve and Ten
cant store IN the new Rowland building,
81 cutting hole IN ths rear door asar
Tia lock. He evidently thought that he
arauld be able 20 insert his hand end
turn the kew or catch lock. whichever
III happened 10 be-; but ii this he wns
wrong. for 1t was key lock and there
was no key inside the lock. The ap-
pearanee Of The door also indicates tlat
he tried to force the lock BY hammering
the door.
The hole IN the door VAS cut By means
Of carpenters Bit, the aperture being
thus outlined and the piece then being
broken out. The hole was small, being
tos small To allow the Insertion q
full grown mans hand. Is manager w
lD. Kelly Of the Woolworth company was
not able to force his hand through.
The attempted break was discovered
Yesterday morning by occupants Of q
lnelohboring house on Keith avenue, ap
/ the manager was at once notified. Man.
ager Kelly went 70 the store and decided
\ that the burglar had not been able -
get in. the door being still locked and
the safe ana cash drawers not being
tampered with. Mr.. Kelly left the store
SATURDAY night at ll:l0 o'clock, and i
Il nrobable that the burglar worked
during the early hours Of Sunday morn
ling. The rear Of the store Is somewhat
secluded and a burglar might work there
+ with considerable assurances that ne
would be safe from detection.