The Mena weekly star., 1911-07-20
NERVY BURGLARS
 CARRY OFF SAFE
They Use the Owners Vaaon to Haul it and Then Blow the Door or and Rifle it
 of $500.

Little Rock, July i2.-one of the
 boldest burglaries ever committed
 within the city limits took place
 early Tuesday morning at the mer-
 chandise store of J. w. Williams at
 the corner of Twelfth and Elm
 streets. A small quantity of mer-
 chandlse and q e00-pound safe con-
 talning $500 was loaded into a de-
 livery wagon at the front door of
 the store and pulled by the theives
 several blocks away into a thicket,
 where a searching party found the
 wagon and rined safe Tuesday af-
 ternoon. All the cash was taken.
 Only two checks were left and the
 safe was completely ruined.
 Not until A. Nj. Cats, a clerk en-
 ployed by MT. Williams, arrived at
 the store about 5 o'clock Tuesday
 morning was it known that a bur glary had been committed. Mir. Oats
 found that the front door had been
 forced open with a pinch bar and upon investigation he discovered that the safe, weighing about 600 pounds, was gone, also that small quantity of merchandise was miss ing. Mir. William and the police were notified of the robbery and in- vestlgation developed the fact that the burglars had also broken into neighboring blacksmith shop be- longing to J. Woods, and supplied themselves with sledge hammers and chisels and into the tool box of Sid Bumpas, who is ereceting a house on a lot adjoining the store, where they procured the pinch bar, which was used in forcing the front door. An attempt was made to enter the store through window as evidenced by the ladder placed against side window.
 Use Owners Wagon to Remove Safe.
 Evidently the thieves were well acquainted with the premises, as there seemed to have been no hitch in their work. Entrance having been made, the store safe, which con- tained $500 in cash and several was loaded into the store delivery wagon which had been pulled from the rear to the front entrance. Seven boxes of gun shells, a supply of tobacco, pair of shoes and a lot of underwear were also taken. Rendered thirsty by their labors the burglars searched for liquid refreshments. A jug was found, but it must have been disappointment, for the contents vinegar, were emptied on the floor.
 The feed room of the store has been occupied for several months by John Harguis, a woodchopper, but on the night of the burglary he was away. Parties living opposite the store were awakened by the noises made by the thieves. Not they were burglars they gave no alarm. Several persons saw the wagon passing along the street about o'clock in themorning. They state that one man pulled the wagon, another pushed, while  a third was in advance in the role of pilot. None of the witnesses thought enough of the incident to give any alarm. The course taken with the booty was easily traced to the border of F. M. Fulk's addition on West Fourteenth street, and several blocks back in the woods of this addition a searching party found the safe and wagon Tuesday The safe had been dumped onto the ground and with the powder taken from the stolen shells the safe door had been blown off and the contents Pifled, nothing but two checks and unimportant papers b@ng left.
 Within the last year MT. Williams store has been burglarized three different times. He states that his total loss has been about a thousand dollars. The police are working upon clews that are expected to bring the guilty parties to justice.