The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-03-20
$4,000 LOOT
IN A GOTHAM SAFE
New York Yeggmen Commit
Daring and Successful Rob
bery-No Glue.

49, Il 90 lazy ~ ~
t~ectives were at work here trying to
run down the craftsmen who robbed
Martin Simon & Sons pawn shop on
the east side some time yesterday of
over $250,000 worth of jewelry, n of
the most daring and successful robber-
les committed in this city within the
memory of the present generation OF
policemen.
1t comes as a climax to a series of
SAFE blowing robberies which for more
than nine months has engaged the at
tention of a special safe squad" of de-
tectives organized by Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty.
Since January 10, more thai 20 safes
have been cracked and robbed in the
lower east side section, where yester-
days big haul was made. The police
believe that the robberies are the same
as those connected with many of the
previous burglaries, and in one IN
stance they have a clue to this effect.
One Small Clue.
When Herman Shapiro,s pawn shop
on the Bowery was robbed of $4,000
by crackSmen last Thursday. night, the
robbers left behind them a pair Of cot
ton gloves which they had used to
avoid finger prints. The robbers of the
SimonS shop left behind two pairs OF
gloves like these. This vague clue,
however, is the only one the detectives
are known to have.
The care with which the burglars
cut their way by a devious route from
an adjoining cellar to the Simon build
ing convinces the detectives they We're
very familiar with the premises. The
men had carefully avoided using the
basement stairway, which was opened
to them, but had sawed their way
through two floors. apparently know
ing that the stairway was wired with
burglar alarms. In like manner when
they reached the big vault in the pawn
shop they did not touch the great steel
doors or their locks. but attacked the
walls-two feet thick.
Store of Riches.
They We're rewarded by access to
such riches that the robbers must have
been stunned. The vault contained val
uables worth s400, 600. according to
Simons; $500, 900 in jewelry and watches
on which money had been loaned:
$130,00 in negotiable securities and
$50, 900 in notes as well as $4,000 in cash
and checks.
The thieves took the bonds and notes
but threw them away before leaving
the building. In the vault they took
nothing but diamonds and light jew
elry contained in "a drawers. Watches
and other jewelry of less value, packed
away in $50 small drawers and com
partmentS, We're not taken. although
all the drawers had been pulled from
their places, and the jewelry and
watches dropped on the floor until they
We're a foot thick.
Work in Daylight.
The police are of the opinion that
six cracksmen We're employed on the
job and that the tunneling required all
+ of last NIGHT and fha oraator no. ri Saf
Sunday morning. 1t is their belief that
the actual robbery took place Sunday
afternoon while hundreds of persons
We're passing along the street in front
of the paWnShop.
None of the tenants in either of the
buildings from which the tunnel started
or that in which the pawnshop was
janitress peering through the window.
of the shop late in the afternoon no
ticed the litter near the vault and gave
the alarm. The police found thai the
tunnel was begun in the cellar of a
house in Eldridge street. directly ad-
Joining simon's place. It was driven
through the wall of the Eldridge house
n into a wood bin in the cellar OF
the Simons store. Then leading up
into the pawnbroker's shop is a flight
of stairs. They are wired for a burg
lar alarm, however, and the thieves
dNoiueu iIleIn anu sawed a way through
the overhead flooring at a spot direct
~ in front of the treasure vault. The
vault, which stands IL feet high and
is built into the wall. was entered by
chopping away the masonry.
Yegss Were Seen.
The crackmen were seen in flight
with their booty by a woman. the po-
lice announced today.
This woman, whose name the police
withheld, lives in a tenement adjoin-
ing the pawn shop. She told the de-
tectives that she was coming down
stairs about ] o'clock in the morn
ing when a strange nan came up from
the cellar of the tenement He carried
an acetylene lamp on his shoulder. She
followed him to the street and saw
another man drive up in a light wagon.
Into the wagon the first man placed
the lamp. He hen went back to the
cellar and returned in a few minutes
with another lamp and a parcel done
up in manila paper. He placed these
IN the wagon and both men drove
away