The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-02-17
BURGLARS At WORK
IN JUMBO STORE
Two Robberies Committed in Vinita-
Three Unknown Men Are Held
Pending Investigation.
From Mondays Daily

From Mondays Daily.
Two burglaries in as many nights is
the record in Vinita for Sunday and
Saturday nights. Last night the Jumbo
store was the scene of action.
The story of this burglary as told by
Night Watchman Baxley is that be-
tween 10:3 80 and II o'clock last night
he made the rounds as usual. At the
Jumbo store he found a man that
aroused his suspicion. However the
fellow went on around the block and
Baxley followed to Scraper street,
where all trace of the suspect was lost
! The night watchman then went back
to the Jumbo and tried the doors and
windows and found them all right. He
went on down the street, made all the
stores and went to the Katy depot and
then again made the rounds just after
midnight. When he reached the Jumbo
; on this round he found the big folding
mirror in front of the front door as a
blind. He ran around to the back
door and noticed the glass from the
panel in the door opening on the alley
at the rear of the building had been
removed and was sitting on the ground
back of the building. Baxley says he
then hurried around to the side door
and found that was where the burg
lars had entered the store. Baxley
then called clerk of the store and
,other aid and went into the store, but
the burglars had gone
The man seen in the alley was a big
man says Baxley. The robbery was
done in an hour and it is impossible
for one man to watch all of the stores
all of the time. 1t is entirely probably
that confederate watched the night
watchman and kept the burglar posted
as to his whereabouts.
Owing to the small size of the hole
made by the removal of the panel, it
is known that whoever entered the
building must have been small. To this
theory is also added the fact that the
collars taken were in sizes 141s and
16, thus showing that one was a large
and the other small man.
Some of the articles taken from the
Jumbo were: Ten hats valued at $3.50
and SO each. Four overcoats at an av-
erage value of about 500 each. Two
nair choac ono paodo bu ITooo~ o
Son and the other a "Handcraft" made
by the Thompson Shoe company. Three
dozen collars. Two fancy vests. Two
pairs automobile gloves. One suit of
clothes, about $40 worth of jewelry, |
one dozen ties. Two full leather grips
and Sc in cash from the register
The other burglary was at the Chief
tain office Saturday night. Entrance
was made through a window in the |
rear of the building. The only articles
missed from this Office was a pair of |
shoes, suit of clothes and a pair of |
trousers that had been iert in the office,
the Office clock, valued at $1.00 and
sample case that had been left in the
office Saturday evening by B. M. Rich,
a travelling salesman for a st. Louis
coffee house. The samples of coffee /
had been scattered over the floor and
the goods stolen put in the case. Some
office tools were found near the safe
indicating that the burglars had in
tended to blow the safe, but must have
realized that this was a newspaper
office, for the safe was unmolested.
The officers have several suspects
lnder surveillance. This afternoon
-hree young men who had been trying ;
10 sell pocket knives on the streets I
we're arrested and are being held pend
ng developments. They gave their
names as Claude Bates, of Dallas, Tex, s
R. T. Moore of Omaha Neb., and
George Walton, of Oklahoma City
they all said they had just come to {
his city from Tulsa. I