Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-19
BOLD ROBBERS GET
 LOOT AT DOUGLAS
Entered Store and Carried Away Goods Valued
 at Over $500

One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in Douglas, or for that matter in this part of the state was committed last night at the Empor- ium store. owned by Curry and com many. The robbery was in all prob ability committed after midnight as up 10 and shortly after that time the streets were filled with people who were attending the festivities at the
 Masonic hall says the Douglas Inter-
 national.
 The entrance was effected through
 the cellar by taking a crowbar and
 prying the lock off the cellar door,
 entering the cellar from the outside
 and with an augur they bored an
 opening in the floor near the center
 or the store and through this the person or persons made their en-
 trance. The work of entering the
 store was clever as the boring was
 as close as honeycombing, the
 boards that had been cut would lift
 out with scarcely any noise. The
 mode of ingress had evidently been
 planned during the day as the loca-
 ton of the opening made was in the
 aisle away from the counters and
 yet so sheltered that working by a
 dim light tre burglars would not be
 noticed from the. street. The open
 ing would easily admit the body Of
 the average man and one piece of
 board was loosened which the
 thieves found it unnecessary to re
 move.
 Yesterday there was in the store
 among many others, three people
 who acted in a very suspicious man
 ner. two men and a woman, Mexi- cans, they looked 10 be One of the men hung around the back of the store and looked at the skirts and other ready made goods and the oth- CTS inspected the fine line of combs and hair ornaments also some pieces of imported pongee. all of which are among the missing goods this morning The strange action of these men were noticed by Miss Curry in par ticular and Miss Torpey also remem- be-ed observing the party. Miss l Curry is positive she would know at least one of the men as he made such a rambling tour of inspection { of the store for no apparent reason. But no serious thought was given 10 | he matter at the time but in the ! light of the robbery of last night the actions of the suspects are explain ed.
 IL is the opinion of the people of ! the store as well as the police that the whole affair was planned yester- ! day and exact location made to ef- l feet an entrance the most secluded. This morning Mir Channel and ! Miss Curry had been investigating [ tho stock and estimated more than ! five hundred dollars worth of goods | arr missing including fine dress goods, wearing apparel, shoes and almost the entire line or combs and ! hair ornaments. a fine line Of which was carried by the Emporium The police have taken the matter up and have so far no clue 10 help , them to determine the identity Of he miscreants. Mir Curry, who is in Phoenix, has been notified and will probably take decided steps in ] he matter for when such wholesale robbery as this can be carried on. no merchant is safe, for if 1t was not the work of amateurs at the ! Emporium last night, but of men who had carefully planned their campaign and had figured on every contingency. They had stolen the .ocls from a carpenter here in town with which they did the work and were too clever Co use anything that might incriminate them.
 The safe was undistured as vel as the cash drawer