The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-19
BURGLARS ENTER TWO
STANFORD sT0RER0Ms
vssns Amateurs Make BungIing Job
And Police Expect To Have
Them Behind Bars Soon

HsId, bad burglars were busy
ssaia an Stanford last Thursday
niSbt and entered the storerooms
of Severance & Son and Cummins
4 Nearen without, however obtain
ing much to pay them for their
s,gtfs labor. At the latter place
ibey got only 25 cents out Of tie
case while from Severance store
they failed 60 secure anything of
value the safe resisting their efforts
TO blow il open with gunpowder. Had
they gotten into it, however, their
labor would have been fruitless, for
since the robbery of Cummins 4
wesrcn's safe several months ago
when $3i was secured, most of the
MERCHANTS have been taking thar
ready cash To bank late in the after
moons and Mr.. Severance is one of
those who keep nothing ON hand at
uistt.
Il has only been two weeks since
~ thief entered Severance q Sons
store and endeavorod 10 burglarize
IT then, but went away without mo-
testing the safe At that time he
priled an iron bar off one of the
. lower windows, and secured en-
trance lie was too foxy to take any
articles Of clothing, and seemed evi-
IDENTITY To be on the hunt for money.
and left without any booty.
When he returned last Thursday
night. the marauder entered the
came way that he did before by priv
ing off one of the bars from n lower
window. Albert Severance had left
several shotgun shells standing on n
shelf in the basement and the burg
lars cut them with knife and emp
tied the powder out. They then drill
I'd couple = holes IN the door
Ia the safe and poured the powder
in setting 1t off with a fuse. No
one heard the explosion. which did
bat little damage To the safe, tear
ing off the knob but not disturbing
the lock. After tinkering about for
II while and finding themselves I'M
able TO get in. the young men left
and went across the street 10 Cum
min. & Wearen's store where bet
ter haul had been obtained n few
months before.
This time the chief burglar who
was evidently the same fellow who
did the wosk before, had little trou-
BILE getting into the safe. They had
probably preserved or made n key
after their previous experience with
this safe and SO opened IT with
out doing much damage. Their pains
went for naught. however, in this
case also, for all the money taken
in during the day had been deposit
ed in hank as had been done at Sew
veanoe 4 Sons The marauders
made an inspection of the different
show cases. however. and picked up
A. quarter which was laying in one
They took care. here, too not to take
clothing OF goods by which they
nigh. be identified or prove "A clew
later. Entrance was effected into
this storeroom by the same means
that IL was entered when robbed be
fore. The heavy wire screen was
cut Of a back window. and the sash
irized open.
The young men who are getting
inta all this deviltry about town are
pretty well known. il is generally be
lievcd. Chief of Police Carter says
that he is mortally certain who they
are aud IL only waiting for few
Developments to place them under
arrest. He has been fearing that
they would skip town before he will
have sufficient evidence to place
them under arrest.
Now, that these young men have
grown so bold as to attempt to rob
two stores in one night no one would
he surprised at what they might at
tempt next. but they are sure to
land behind the bars with n nice
siriped suit of clothes apiece If they
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