The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-12
YEGGMEN'S HAUL WAS JUST $I,465 STAMFORD POST OFFICE BURG. LARS KNEW TT WAS USELESS TO BLOW STEEL COM.
 APARTMENT. IF THEY BLEW OPEN TREASURE CHEST THEY WOULD HAVE WRECKED ITS CONTENTS so THEY LEFT TT
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 Stratford, June 12.-Postmaster w. B. Bristol yesterday figured up his books and ascertained to a cent just how much the burglars who dynamit- ed the safe in the post office the night before profited by their enter prise. The accounts are short $1,465. Of this only a few dollars was in cash the remainder was in stamps mainly of the denomination of one cent. The safe, which was a new one bought last fall by w. B. Futile, the owner of the building is not dam aged beyond the destruction of the door and safe expert yesterday took an order for a new door guaranteeing that when it is placed the safe vii; be as good as when first bought. The burglars made no attempt to open the burglar proof inner compartment. cash and $2,000 in two cent stamps in this little box the night before. when he closed the office. The box is built of chilled steel and will re- sist the efforts of the most expert safe breaker for many hours, long enough to make it useless for the light fingered gentry to tamper with it unless they are assured of unlimit- ed time in which to do the job secure from all interruption. In almost ev- cry case this would require the re- mOval of the safe from the building. Had the burglars known there was $3,o00 within few inches of their hands but safe. from their attack their feelings may be imagined.
 A hand brace and a number of broken drills tempered to unusual hardness were left by the visitors. The holes in the safe were not drilled with this brace. It would have been fvrNy fHI &< l. I~~SIv I~v hand power and still do so good a job. The up-to-date safe burglar car- ries an electric motor which he att tached to an electric light, bulb. This motor drives the drills which are clamped to the safe to obtain the re- auired pressure. With this apparatus it is possible to penetrate the ordi- nary fire proof safe in ten minutes at the longest. The drilling over and while the cracks are being soaped and the "soup" applied the light bulb is replaced. The hand brace is left to mystify the officers who reach the scene early in the morning.
 The building and the handsome fit- tings of the office escaped injury. Not a pane of glass was broken. The clock over the safe was ticking mer- rily when the burglary was discover ed. The vanished woodwork does not show . scratch. It was one of 
 turned off in this vicinity and these facts indicate that the burglars were experts in their line.
 Whatever may be the feelings of w. B. Futile concerning the visit of the burglars he is grateful to them ring his new building. The .detec- tives, after examining the wreckass in the office expressed the opinion that the burglars were In the place only few minutes. perhaps not over 15 or 20 minutes at the most. There came by automobile. It is not be- lteved that it was possible for them to arrive and depart by freight. Sergeant Ed. Cronan of the Bridge port detective department who is re- garded here as almost infallfb1e, be- bile in waiting near by and that they made.a quick getaway after the job. The blowing of post office safes is a we'll organized business conducted on the same lines as any of the big busi- ness enterprises and with the same lie has to foot the bill. The safe breakers. however. have the moral advantage for no one ever heard of one retiring with millions to his cred it. Postmaster Bristol will not lose anything through the burglary.
 William T. Meyer of the Bridgeport post office, formerly in the secret service. visited the scene of the burg lary yesterday. He said the reason there was no attempt to blow the in- terior compartment of the safe was that it was so powerfully constructed the burglars, apparently experts, knew that if they used enough ex- plosives to open the box, they would blow it's. contents to bits. Hence they satisfied themselves with the swag they found outside the little treasure chest,