The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-28
SUB-POSTOFF|CE
SAFE IS ROBBED
Yeggmen Break Into COOmbs
Drug Store and Make
Small Haul.
CHARLTON STORE ALSO
ENTERED; $3.50 TAKEN
POstOfiice Inspectors Are As
siSting Police in Search
for Burglars.

Salt Lake City sub-postothce No. 5,
situated IN the Coombs drug store. cor
ner OF State and Fourth South streets.
va. robbed sometime between II o'clock
midnight Saturday night and Z o'clock
Sunday morning. with a resulting loss oi
sI6 10 the postofice department and a
loss of SO in cash. three dozen fourSaiu
pens and a quantity OF perfumery to
the drug company The safe containing
tho money was cracked by the yegg-
men.
During the same Night safe in the
E. p. Charlton & store; 2Sl ,ssS S9uln IN aasn yam
stolen. The thieves which were identi.
fed In either job left no clues behind
them and up 70 an eds made
In conjunction with the police, POST
office Inspectors L. h: Bradshaw and r
T. Frawlsy are workinE fa upon tne s. f1Se 1Se
men who accomplished the work are cap
tured they Will not be required 70 De
compelled TO stand trial In the United
States district court. because they have
committed an onense against the gov
eminent
been cracked three times within the last
three years. The first time the crack
lnE was accompanied by loss OF SloO.
Eighteen months ago the same safe was
broken open with resulting loss OF 800
II is estimated that the most recent rob
berry will result in loss OF about Sllo.
Enter Through Basement.
The robbers entered the coombs store
the case may have been. through base
mcni door. II had been pried open with
o crowbar. Once in the cellar the thieves
forced open a trapdoor IN the hoor of
tho store Tho safe II situated partly
behind the prescription stall and is WIS.,
ible from the street IL was evident that
the yeggUen had used their own tools.
~ nothing IN the store had been dis
osrbed except the goods which were
The dial on the safe had been hit with
heavy hammer and broken OF. This
done. the robbers had punched In the |
iumblsrs and opened the safe without
The postoffce sub-sta;ion is located in
the south side of the store. The stamps
and money belonging 10 the postofhce |
department had been placed in the safe |
Saturday evening when the postoffce |
rho robbery was discovered by Ar, |
Clark an employee OF the store, when
tcrday morning TO open UP. II was I'M |
mcdiately reported 10 the postofhce Of
nclals and the police department. Of
ficials from both places made invesHga- |
lions.
The opinion is held by the police that
the robbers were unaware that they were |
breaking into. postofice. as postofhces |
are usually Stunned by burglars. as Il |
Is we'll known that TO interfere with |
Uncle Sans mail system Is a practice !
more hazardous than profitable.
Another Slick job.
In the opinion OF Collins Ho,comb. |
manager OF the E. r. Charlton store. the \
robbers who cracked the strong box In |
that store did not effect an entrance. bu,
were locked In the store Saturday night |
by mistake. He said yesterday afternoon |
that there was no evidence that an en-
trance had been effected In any other |
way-except that the robbers were IN
possession OF a skeleton key with which |
they unlocked the front door. The rob- |
bers made their exit, however. through |
n rear basement door which unlocks from |
the inside.
Night Watchman White said yester-
day that he visited the store at about |
4 o'clock yesterday morning and At that |
time all was well.
The safe in the Charlton store was
the middle of the store. When the store
was entered yesterday morning by an |
employee. the strong box found not
lsT from us customary position in the
The method OF breaking 4, was the
same as that used on the safe In the
Coomos drug store. The combination
dial had been pounded OF with a heavy
hammer and the tumblers punched In
Mr.. Holcomb said that about $3.50 in
cash was In the safe at the time OF
the robbery
The police are OF the opinion that the
two jobs arc the work OF the same gang
which has been working In Salt Lake for
the past two months and which during
that time hnS cracked no less than Ave
safes. The methods used IN every case
are similar In each detail. No dynamit-
ing had been attempted while on the
other hand the robbers have been careful
TO choose safes OF the old type which
VIII Yield 10 their treatment.