Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-12-08
CRACK SAFE. AND
ESCAPE IN AUTO
Dynamite Used To Get $500
From Sayre & Fisher
specta! to the EVENING NEWS.

| spectd4 10 the EVENING NEWS.
Sayreville, Dec. S:-Yeggmen
chiseled open the iron vault and blew
open the inner safe with dynamite at
the commissary of the Sayre & Fisher
Brick Manufacturing Company, and
looted the safety locker of about
$500 in cash and checks between
1880 and 2 o'clock yesterday morn
| ing. 1t was a clean and well per-
formed job, the cracksmen making
good their escape one-half hour or
more before the robbery was discov-
cred by Watchman Michael Craven.
No outsider, not even close residents
to the store, heard the explosion of
dynamite. the sound of the concus-
sion being deadened by the clever
yeggmen placing heavy horse
blanket over the inner safe.
Used Automobile.
This is the second effort of dyna-
miters in this section in three days,
the postotfice safe at Matawan having
| been dynamited early Thursday
morning, though but about s12 was
CLEANED. County Detective Richard
Peltier believes he has a clue to the
robbers in a description afforded him
| VI WV OIL oISSlb binI tloAbCu TIC
store Saturday afternoon. 1t is
thought the job may have been pull
ed off in New York style and the
cracksmen made their getaway by
automobile. A machine was seen
shortly after 2 O'Clock yesterday
morning, with two men, coming to-
ward Perth Amboy at rapid rate,
1t is believed by some that the
cracksmen were the men in the ma
chine, heading for New York.
The watchman had visited the
store about Il o'clock and left to
inspect the main plant of the COM
pany some distance from the commits
sary building. He returned at 2
o'clock on his regular rounds and
i, found everything in the room of the
commissary in which is the vault,
| topsy turvey, the steel door to the
vault broken, and the inner safe
blown to pieces. The remnants of a
horse blanket, which had been taken
from the stock of the commissary,
was split in shreds from the concus-
sion caused by the explosion, and
cigar boxes, candy jars and small
| packages of crackers, groceries and
other commodities lay in promiscu-
Gus heap, broken and torn, on the
| floor. The watchman Immediately
notified the police, who straightway
made an investigation, but could find
| but little evidence for clue.
| Skilled Yeggmen.
| AS the bakers shop connected with
| the commissary is in operation every
| night of the week except Saturday,
| it is believed the yeggmen were care
| full to select this time to put through
tie Job. This furnishes the theory
| that the robbers may have in some
| way been connected with the plant
or were from In the vicinity.
From indications the yeggmen took
nothing but cash and checks. The
inner safe contained more money
than usual as it was Saturday night,
and after the store closed the mana
ger did not have an opportunity to
transfer the amount taken in during
the day to the safe in the main office
of the plant. Among the loot were
three checks. A personal check of
e. A. Fisher, president of the COM
pany, for $50, made payable to the
order of some one; check from the
International Smokeless Powder
Company, of Parlin, for $2.75, and
one from A. J. johnson, of South
Amboy, for $2.32.
ChiseIed Safe Open.
The outer door to the vault appear
ed to have been chiseled open after
the combination on the outside had
been hammered off. A hole had been
j bored in the door of the inner safe,
| In which dynamite had been explod-
ed, which caused the wrecking OF the
whole front of the smaller vault and
caused the stock on the shelves of the
store to be Jared off in promiscu-
GUS heap on the floor.
Chief of Police Boyler, in scouting
around for a clue to the robbers, saw
| two Polish wOrkmen on trolley car
from South River with satchels. They
| looked suspicious because they ap-
peared to squat down on the platform
when the car came through Sayre-
Vile, The chief notified the South
Amboy police, and the car, which was
| the first yesterday morning, was held
! ND at Main street and Broadway by
| two policemen and the foreigners
searched. They appeared to be on
their way to the old country and had
nothing suspicious with them. Frank
Armstrong, of South River, a news
paper man, was searched by the
policemen as they thought he looked
suspicious. The police, however, did
not know Armstrong and the latter,
| 1t is said, carried a package that
aroused the policemen's attention
The car arrived at South Amboy
about s O'Clock in the morning. 1t
is said the yeggmen carefully CLEANED
all the money in the same except a
dime. which escaped their attention.