Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-03
BURCLARlfS ON 4 MAIN STREET The Froug Store, The Ar cade and Valley Saloon Robbed Early Sunday
 Morning.
A SAFE IS RIFLED
Costly Materials Taken From FrOuc Store and Other Goods 4
 From the Arcade,

Three bold burglaries were com.
 mltted in the business district be. tween midnight and sunrise Sunday
 morning. The Froug Store, The Ar cade, and the Valley Saloon, all on
 Main street, were entered. The rob-
 befy was discovered by Jake Levine nephew Of Mr. Froug, when he
 went to the store at o'clock Sum- day morning. While the exact loss in each store could not be computed it is known that the total amount of the sWag was not great The work was apparently that of amateurs, Tlie city pliiee, Sheriff Brewster and iis deputies alFi Cons ab e Flank St W art are, active in he case a q ax- pect to land the cfienders
 At the rsar of the Arcade OH Third avenue there is d covered area used by he Hammett Grocery Company for the storage of Gil. This space is, protected by a heavy iron gate on. ,he cross cars of which the burglars probably climbed to the roof of the, area and preceded thence to the. rear of the Froug Store where they. sealed twelve-foot brick wall anrd. effected an easy entrance by push. ing in a card board tackled over the. upper half of the rear door where, the glass was out.
 The outer door of MT. Frougs pri-. Vate safe, which contained no money. was not locked ard the intruders had no trouble i'll forcing the boxes inside. Papers belonging to MT. Froug were removed from these boxes, but just 'What is missing could not be learned' as Mr. Froug is in New York City. Numerous papers from the safe were sea ts red, on the. floor. A box con- taining a collection of foreign coins, and coins of old date and bundle of papers were found in the alley where they had been dropped by lnet burglars. The receipts from Satur-. days sales had not been placed in the safe. Ils,
 The sroek throughout the store was badly disarranged. Goods in ;het shelves were jumbled together and the floor was filtered with shirt waists, lingerie. fine muslins and mems underwear.
 The principal loss at the Froug Store was quantity of fine braids' and trimmings, some of it. valued as high as s15 yard. Probably $75 or S10o worth of this material and ar- ticles of womanis apparel was taken The booty was stuffed into suit caes from the stock.
 A step ladder from the FraIg Store was used to reach the second stcTy windows of the Arcade from dhe roof over the area. The heavy. doors faced with sheet iron which protect the windows were forced with jimmy. Attempts were made on severa! of these doors before one that yellded was found
 At the Arcade the cash drawer was torn from it's fastenings under the desk and 50 cen{s taken. A suit case, mems underwear, shirts and cheap suit of clothes were stolen Silks and other valuable articles were not disturbed. The fact that youths size suit of clothes was taken a. the Arcade and pair of number 5 shoes at the Froug Store indicates that the burglar was small stature very likely a boy. T At the Valley Saloon an entrarce was effected by cutting the screen ever the side entrance on Fourth ave- nue. Here three cash registers were opened. but the burglars got nothlng for their pains as the registers were emptied at closing time. No attempt was made on the safe at this place. The intru1ers were evidently prohi-l bitionists as they didn't touch the wet goods. Aside from few cigars nothing was taken.