The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-12
Force Front Doors of Main Street
ssnr.s, Leaving No Clues for
the Police to
Follow
OVER 5000 IS STOLEN
Twenty-Nine Dozen Valuable Foun-
tain Pens Taken From Rollins
store-niss $500 in
Cash.

TWO burglarRs were committed in
down town stores last night in which
goods and money TO the value o.
ss25 or more was taken. Fountain
pens valued at $500 and SO in cash
we're taken from the c. H Rollins and
COMPANY stationary sure a. the cor
ner Of Main and Seventh street, while
q little over s11 in cash and 81 worth
of STAMPS were taken from MctSatn
Bros drug store AZ the corner OF
Fifth and Main The burglars did not
tampsr WIKI the safes in either stors.
missing ttse-eby about $500 II cash
at the Rollins store
Discovery OF the burgiartss was not
made until this morning when the
stores we're opened at the usual time
The matter was al once reported 10
the police who are working on the
cases. Two men vho entered the
Rollins store Al different times last
night are suspected but no arrests
have get been made TIE work Is
considered 10 be thar OF amateurs
and II is thought that one man work
ing alone did both Jobs
An entrance Vas madAat The front
door OF AlcGrah Bros store. q jimmy
being used 10 fonce the door. After
rsfIing the cash register and ringing
Nd the amount taken from il, the
thieves went al over the store. They
entered the CELLAR and left ths lights
burning in that phce 1t is hard for
the proprietors OF the store to tel
Just what has been taken without an
invoice. 1t may De discovered that
other goods have also been taken
from this store.
At the Rollins store both the side
and front doors were tempered with
but the entrance was made al the
At this place the thieves took fourte eu
dozen Conklin fountain pens. SIX doz
en- Schaffer, three dozen Waterman
and six dozen OF assorted makes OF
fountain pens. They also wen,
through the cash register, securing
about $40 in change They overlook
ed, or did not care to take many
other articles OF value that could bs
stored in small space \ numbel
c. very valuable cameras were un
touched. and no attempt was made t,
enter a safe containing $500 In bill
and silver.
II is considered remarkable that tn
thieves should have been able TO er
ter the front doors OF both store
without being seen. Main street /
brilliantly lighted al all hours OF Ii
might except early in the morning g
about 500 o'clock when the whit
way is shut off
The burglar alarm at We'll. and Co.
clothing store, 1875 Main street, SCUM
ed last night at about 1000 o'cloc
1t is not thought however. that tn
has any connection with the robbie
fes repored. Police say that the
alarms occasionally sound when t
wind blows the wires together
from some other cause OF this kind
1t seems that the city is at prese
infested with gang of thieves ",
have been operating lately Seye:
robberies have been reported to t
police within tbs LAST few weeks.
saloon blonsing TO A, S. Nichols
lSS South Fifth street. and the off
Of DR.. Gillian, have been entered
thieves within the last two or thr
weeks.
We have been mighty lucky
this town up until now. but It loo
like our tine was coming" S.
Chief Kenney this morning Tn
have been getting II in towns
around Us while We have escaped ,