Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-01
Verona, Aroused by
Report, Turns to
Sleep Again.
LULLED BY EXPLOSIVE
HABIT OF POWDER MILLS
One Residents Suspicion Is Re-
warded by Discovery of
Soups" Havoc.

Yeggmen blew open the safe in the
Verona postoffice early today and
made a complete cleanup of all the
stamps and money it contained. Their
haul was at least $1,000. Although
the explosion awakened residents
within a radius of a half mile, the
yeggs made a successful getaway.
and postoffice inspectors and the local
police have been unable to find the
slightest trace of them.
1t is probable that the proximity OF
Verona to Pompton and the habit
which the powder mills there have of
exploding every little while assisted
the safe e-hlowers materially, Verona
people who were aroused from their
slumbers by the explosion at the post
office went promptly to sleep again,
believing there had merely been an
other accident at Pompton
One Man Is suspicious.
Only one man became suspicious
enough of the loud, dull report to
make an investigation. He was John
Rupert, who lives a block away from
the postoffice. He hurriedly dressed
and walked down the street.
When he came to the office he found
the front door had been elumsily
pried open, and he entered the build
ing. Within everything was in dis
order The safe door was blown off
its hinges and lay, bent and twisted,
In the corner of the room.
The walls of the safe were badly
damaged. Federal officers who have
examined the work of the yeggs say
the job was done by very inexperi-
enced OF very careless men. The
charge of soup" as they call the
explosive used in blowing safes, they
used was more than twice as power
full as was necessary, the postoff1ce
men say.
Rupert aroused Postmaster. Judson
Hr Parker, who lives in .Clarenont
place, and together they inspected the
postoffice closely. The thieves had
forced open desk drawers and cabi-
nets. and all the records were strewn
about the floor. Except for the broken
front door, the building itself, which
is of brick and one story in height,
was not damaged.
Rupert and Parker hurried along
Bloomfield avenue and Grove street,
the postoffice stands, pulling door
bells and asking residents If they
had seen anything of the marauders.
1t was remarkable that the Misses
Connors, who live directly adjacent
to the postoffice, did not hear the
explosion at all.
Many Conflicting Stories.
Manv conflicting stories came from
people living in Verona Centre, as
the section Immediately surrounding
the postoffice is called, about strange
men seen in the vicinity of the office
around 4 o'clock, the time at which
the robbery took place.
After Rupert and the postmaster
heard the yeggs described as three
men who drove away in an automo-
bile" and two men who jumped over
the fence at the rear of the post
Office" they decided that this sort
of investigation was leading them
nowhere and discontinued it for
well-meant but futile search for foot
prints and other traces of the rob-
bers.
A general alarm has been sent out
and the countryside is being secured
hy policemen and citizens in a search
for the yeggs.
Postmaster Parker and the post
Office authorities are making an ex-
animation of the books of the office
in an endeavor to fix the exact
amount of loot which the yeggmen
secured