Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-09-28
ANOTHER STORE ROBBED
The Henry B. Myers Company
Has Its Building On West
Street Ransacked Last
Night
ROBBER LOCKED IN STORE
Apparently The Man ResOrted To Same
Scheme Used Recently In RObbing
Jones And Franklin

/ Tor tue second time IN fOur days
or rather nights-Annapois merchant!
suffered loss by burglary last night
when the retail and wholesale har
ness, feed and general supply estab
lishment of The Henry B. Myers Com.
pany, on West street, was robbed.
Fortunately, the robber did not
tamper with the safe, into which
most of the firms funds had been
locked for the night, ard as a result
the monetary loss to the firm was
slight. The robbery took place some
time between the closing hour and
1880 o'clock and apparently the rob-
ber had entered the store before it
was closed for the night and succeed
ed in secreting himself somewhere
about the building until it was close d
and the clerks and owners had left.
This was the plan employed some
months ago when the store Of Jones
& Franklin, on Main street, as rob-
bed during the early hours of the
evening. Although the matter was
given in charge of the police and an
arrest was promptly made o. that oc-
casion, no conviction has followed and
the robbery remains a mystery.
The robbery of the Myers Company
store last night was discovered short
lyafter o'clock by Mr.. Harry Ri,r-
dan, who,. following his custom, re-
turned after supper for some work on
the books. Upon entering the office
he found that the cash drawer had
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the desks and their drawers in the
firms office and bookkeeping depart
ment had also been gone through.
The safe had not been tam
pered with, however, and after pick
irg up what small money he found ly-
ing about, the robber had gone
through the back window of the
office and thence across the back yard
of the property, through the store
rooms and sheds there and out to
Cathedral street in the rear To get
through these sheds the man lifted
from their rollers two sliding doors,
one to get into the shed on the store
side of the yard and one to get out
of it on the street side.
Mr.. Riordan. Immediately upon
discovering what had happened, noti-
fed City Alderman Charles E. Myers,
a member of the firm, and the police
were also notified and were soon on
the scene. The robber got. in all,
only about $25. taking some small
change from the cash drawer in the
store, which had been left there for
change in the early business hours
this moning.
The burglar then went into the
office where the small box kept for
the depositing of long distance tele-
phone call fees and for the purchase
of mileage tickets over the Washing
ton, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railway was kept. So far as is
known the money in these two places
was all that he got.
The robbery has caused consider
able talk, coming so soon on the bold
robbery of the store of Isaac Benesch
on Saturday or Sunday. 1t is under
stood that this man was pretty we'll
located by the police who, however,
did not get on his trail until just be-
fore he hoped a car of the Maryland
Electric Railways and left for parts
unknown.
This man is described as being a
young man of prepossessing appear
ance, who on Monday went into sew
eral stores in town and stopped sew
eral people with the offer to sell
them watch, cheap, as he was hard
pressed and needed the money. One
of these persons notified the police,
who, as soon as they heard of it, were
close on the mans trail and traced
him to the station, whore he got away.
1t is understood that he also at
tempted to sell a watch to a passen'
ger on the car between Annapolis anC
Baltimore.