The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-04-25
FIND DOORS ALL LOCKED
Unknown Men Secure Sporting Goods
as Booty and Total Amount Taken is
Valued at 1oo-Burglars May Have
Concealed Themselves in the Store.

The Gierum Book Store on Wiscon-
sin street was ransacked by burglars
on Monday night and the burglary is
offering one of the most interesting
mysteries to engage the attention of
the police of Kenosha in some time.
just how the burglars got into the
store is the problem that seems to be
without solution to the police and
the night Waterman. The burglars
left the building through rear door
after taking down the bars which had
held the door so securely that it would
have been impossible for them to have
entered by it. They took with them
key to the rear door probably with
the idea of returning when the spirit
moved them. Once in the store the
burglars made thorough search.
Fully half of the stock in the store
was pulled down and the floor was
strewn with merchandise of all sorts.
The burglars seemed to be especially
interested in the department where
sporting goods were sold and they
hauled down scores of boxes. In this
department they seemed to have taken
number of sweater coats and pos
sibIy some baseball goods. On the
other side of the store the search was
just as general. Boxes and cases were
torn open and the contents of them
thrown about the floor. 1T is certain
that the burglars took large number
of fountain pens from this portion of
the store. The cash register had been
left open and few cents of change
was in the register, but this was left
untouched as was lot of checks, all
properly signed, which had been left
on the desk at the rear of the store
There are two theories being follow
ed by the police and other officials.
One Of them is that the burglary was
the work of boys and that one Of the
burglars hid in the store some time
during the day. The other is that the
front door which is fastened by Yale
lock was opened. The Glerum broth
ers were in the store every minute of
Monday and they declare that there
could not possibly have been any one
hidden in the store. The door leading
to the basement of the building was
bolted with three bolts and it had not
been disturbed The heavy oak bars
which protected the windows and doors
in the rear sof the house had not been
touched. There was nothing to indi-
cate that any Of the locks on doors
leading to the store had been tamper-
ed with in any way and this fact
makes the burglary a big mystery.
When the store was closed up just af-
ter ten clock Monday evening Ed
ward Glerum was in charge Of it and
he is convinced that he can account
for every person in the store. Not a
single suspicious character was seen
about the store during the afternoon
or evening.
The manner in which things were
thrown about in the sCore indicates
that the burglars were seeking money
and searching behind the stock with
the idea that the receipts Of the day
might have been concealed there. No
effort was made to open the safe
which stood in the rear of the store.
While the burglary may have been
the work of the band Of boys which
has been guilty of similar crimes
about the city the police are inclined
to believe that some clever worker
was mixed up in it