The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-01

DR.. Pierce examined the body in the
rooms of a Cam bridge City undertaken
shortly after it was taken from the
wreck. He found many other injuries
that might have caused his death
Both leg bones were fractured and
the right thigh bone was broken. His
left eye was badly cut. The body was
cut and bruised.
tools. They were apparently frighten-
ed away, as the telephone was knock
ed to the floor and broken, and marks
on the safe show that they had just
started work. Marks on the windows
where they tried to force entrance,
and the broken lock of the wareroom
door, show that heavy pointed instru-
ments were used
South Side Robbery.
| A few evenings ago a man entered
the home of William Geier, 1872 South
Seventh street, through the rear door,
while Mrs. Geier was in the other
half of the double house with her sis
ter. Rummaging through the lower
floor he got Mrs. Geiers pocketbook
containing small change amounting to
between 81 and 81. Frightened by
baby crying in the other part of the
! running
out the front door.
A noise at the entrance to the
chicken park at the rear of David
Sherman's house, 723 South Seventh
at s o'clock Saturday evening alarm
ed Mr.. Sherman and his son, who got
to the back of the lot in time to see
a man running down the alley.
Pick Harris Pockets.
AS he reached the alley between G
and F streets on North Eighth last
night, Robert Hart, 535 North D
street, was stopped by two tall men,
wearing soft hats, drawn over their
| eyes. One of the men knocked Harris
right arm above his head, and ordered
him to hold his hand up. The other
thrust long revolver in his face and
| threatened to shoot, If Hart offered
| any resistance.
While the taller of the two covered
| Hart, the other quickly went through
J his pockets, taking his bill fold and
| loose change amounting to SIP.
They did not bother with his watch,
ring and tiepin. Relieving him of his
money they ordered Hart to move on,
threatening to blow his brains out if
he raised an cutlery.
Disappear in Alley.
the holdup men disappeared up the
alley from which they had come
| Hart is uncertain but believes they
were white men. The mouth of the
| alley was dark, and the men with
their hats shading their faces worked
| rapidly.
At noon today no trace had been
| found of the men by the police.
Burglar Belt Activity.
| Residents of the old burglar belt,
south of Main and east of Thirteenth
| street, are clamoring for increased
police protection today, and a number
of householders are "toting" large and
formidable looking revolvers.
Saturday night two ladders were
placed against the rear of the home
of Elwood Mcclure, East Main street
and an unsuccessful effort was made
| by thieves to Jimmy into two or
| three windows. Other houses in the
same section Of the city were visited
but no entrance was gained by the
| thieves
Flower thieves have also renewed
operations in the burglar belt" and
Saturday night thief dug up all the
plants in front of the home of Charles
| Haner on South Fourteenth street,
first breaking into his barn to secure
a spade to do the work with.
| Women living in the burglar belt"
are very nervous and the male mem
bers of the households find it difficult
to find plausible enough excuses to go
down town after nightfall, and the
slightest noise caused by the wind
shaking a window or rafting a door
| almost causes a panic.
Two Try This Job.
When Harold Ball son of w. E.
Ball, who has charge of the Standard
Oil company's office, went to feed the
horses Sunday morning. he found the
rear door Of the wareroom open, two
palings off the fence surrounding the
yard, with tracks leading from the
opening to the door. The soft ground
bore imprints of two kinds of shoes,
one with square toes, the other with
long pointed toes.
Two rear windows bore marks of
a round-pointed tool which had been
used to force them open. The win
dow castings and frames were badly
battered They also tried to force a
basement window
Failing to gain entrace through the
windows they tried to work the lock
Of the wareroom door. They broke
the lock, but had to break the steeple
| 'NiSL AASAo II Az PIdSC bCIOIc tuSS
could force the door open,
Nothing in the wareroom was dis
turbed. In the office drawers contain
ing stamps and papers were taken
from Mr.. Balls desk, but the thieves
were apparently after money, and did
not take any of the stamps or stamp
ed envelopes.
Just above the combination of the
safe a sharp instrument was used to
cut the steel, A groove half an inch
long and an eighth of an inch deep had
been started. In addition the enamel
round the combination was broken
and lines marked out to cut square
hole.
None of the tools which were used
in entering the Office or in working
on the safe was left behind
The broken telephone lying on the
floor leads Mr.. Ball to believe that
the thieves were frightened away by
the night Waterman at the Mather
coal yard, who passes through the al
ley near the Office several times dur
ing the night
Baby Frightens Burglar.
While Mrs. William Geier. wife OF
the custodian of the Eagles hall, was
in the other side of the house with