Evening journal., 1913-05-19
CRACK SAFE
ICETTINC $4,000
COIN, JEWELS
Julian, HsrraSSed by BLACK
Handlers" Suffers Heavy
Loss by YeGgS
POLICE FAIL TO
FIND ANY CLUE

What was perhaps the most daring
robbery perpetrated in this city in
years was that of Saturday night or
early Sunday morning when "yeggs'
blew the safe in the plant of the
Union Macoroni Works, at Fifth and
Walnut streets, and got $3.50 in
money and S115O in iewelry The
plant is owned by Raffaele Julian,
of No. 519 Walnut street, and while
he claims to have no enemies he has
received numerous "Black Hand let
ters in the past few years. his plant
has been gutted by fire. dynamite has
been found near his property and only
recently a bottle supposed to con-
tain nitro -glycerine was found on the
sidewalk i'm front of the building.
In the raid on the place Sunday
morning the robbers got $1,000 in
American money. $50 in Canadian
coip, 5000 in Italian money and
$3.50 in jeweiry. The latter be-
longed to Mrs. Julian and consisted
of ten gold watches, three small
time pieces, such as women carry,
and seven larger ones, such as men
generally use There are also some
diamond rings, gold finger rings, gold
earrings, gold bracelets, chains. pins,
lockets and pendants. Mr.. Julian
said the money and jewels were left
in the safe because he had not got
en- to the bank early enough on Sat
urday.
Whether the work was that Of pro-
fessionals Is not known. As the rob
hers left no clues, but that they un-
derstood the use of nitroglyccrine
was apparent The combination OF
the safe had been cut off. and a hole
bored in tho steel plates of the safe
Into this hole the explosive had been
poured. and TO prevent il from COM
ing out one of the robbers chewed
sausage into pulp and stuck this
into. the hole. The sound Of the OK
plosion was muhled by bags Of
macaroni, beans, and other materials
being placed over the safe and when
the charge was set off. the heavy
steel plates were torn asundcr
The mufficd explosion WAS heard by
one person. Mrs. Louisa Wallace. OF
No. 207 East Fifth street. adjoining
the plant This was about 3 o'clock,
and Mrs. Wallace made an investigs-
tion in her home, she thinking some
thing had fallen. Finding everything
all right she returned TO bed without
looking outside her house. The rob
berry was not discovered until $50
o'clock in the morning, when Humbert
Maines, an employe, went to the plant
TO do some work Names found the
rear door open, and on entering the
building, discovered the safe torn and
twisted. He at once notified Julian
and the police.
An investigation showed the floor
covered with debris of the havoc
wrought by the explosives, the in
terror of the room being strewn with
plaster from the walls. and among this
lay the tools used by the "yeggs," all
new. These consisted of hand drill
two extra drills. the pieces of fuse
each 3 inches long, three caps for ex-
ploding the blasts. a hand fash ligh.
with extra batteries, and cold
chisel. To prevent interruption, the
robbers had placed wooden strips
across the front doors and a Ions
string leading from the safe in the
Fifth street side of the building to a
second story landing showed where
the lookout had been stationed
In case OF detection. the string
would have been pulled and the rob
bers notified. Entrance TO the build
ing had been effected through door
way in a rear alley which lead to the
second story. From there the yeggs
made their way TO the Office in the
Fifth street side Of the building
The safe was located in a display
window and over it was burning an
electric light which was burning
brightly yesterday morning. Had
anyone passing along the street
looked in .hc window the robbers
would have been seen, as there were
no curtains on the window.
In addition to this robbery IL be.
came known on Saturday that an at
tempt had been made to blow the
safe in the Loeber Pickling and Pre-
serving plant, No 236 East Liberty
street late Thursday night Entrance
had been effected to the building by
a rear window and a hole had beeI
bored in the safe but before any ex
plosive material had been poured. tn,
robbers left, apparently frightened
off. The safe contained S125 but moth
ing w taken.