The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-02-29
Smooth Inside Workers
Get 5000 From Drawer at
Mayors Saloon Sunday.
GET NO CLEW TO THE ROBBERS
Man or Men Supposed to Have Been in
Place When It Was Closed to Bust
ness Sunday Morning No Effort to
Open Safes or Cash Registers.

The mayors sSplacen on West Mar.
ket street was the scene of myster-
ious robbery early Sunday morning,
when some worker from the inside
touched drawer in the saloon for the
roll = and the report to the police was
that the thief got away with cash and
checks to the amount of $780, Of this
$3.50 was in cash and the remainder III
checks. The robbery was discovered
just after six clock Sunday morning
when the day bartender came to work.
place open and going into the saloon he
hurried to the drawer where the money
had been left earlierCin the morning
only to find it empty. The police de-
partment was at once notified of the
robbery and every available officer was
put to work on the case. Chief o Hare
made gu investigation of the building
and at once decided that the robbery
must have been committed by some one
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loon during Saturday night. The doors
had been unlocked from the inside and.
there was no sign of any one having
broken into the place. Several suspects
were picked up by the police, but there
was no evidence to hold any of them
and they were released. 1t is evident
that the man who robbed the saloon
knew just what he was doing and just
where to find the money, which repre-
sented the receipts of the place for the
late afternoon and Saturday night. 1t is
thought that the man watched the bar
tender when he put the money away
and that the robber came from his hid
ing place just as the bartender had
locked up for the night, and securing
the money made his way out through
the side door of the building. There was
nothing left behind which might prove
as a eleW to the identity Of the rob-
Der. Ne effort had been made to open
the cash register behind the bar or the
auxiliary cash register maintained in
the bottle. There We're two safes in
the place but neither of these had been
tempered with and it was evident that
the THIEF or thieves had been satisfied
with the roll of bills and checks which
WeTo found in the bag in the drawer. 1t
is declared that it has been customary
for the bartenders to leave money in the
drawer when the safes in the place We're
locked and that there was an under
standing between the bartenders as to
where the money should be placed.
Saturday night is always busy time
at the "mayor's place. and all sorts !
and conditions of men are accustomed to
gather in the bar room on that night.
Just how man could have concealed
himself in the place is difficult to see.
1t is just possible that the thief had
hidden himself in one of the upper
rooms, but this is not thought probable.
IueS6 diS uo6u oSS inc gSubIdl Offices OF
the Fortune Brothers Brewing company
and it would have been difficult for the
man to have made his way from these
rooms to the bar room without leaving
some evidence of the trip behind him.
The bartender feels certain that there
was no one in the building when he
locked up, but at that every indication
shows that the work was done from
within and that no one broke through
the windows or doors of the building.
The mayor gives assurance that the
money taken was not the money that
had been set aside for his campaign
for mayor and he asserts that the cam
paign will go on just as if the robbery
had not taken place.