The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-11-10
POStOffiCe Robbed
Sunday Morning
BURGLARS MAKE A BIG HAUL
Safe Doors Blown Open and Over Nine thousand
Dollars OF Booty Taken

One of the most daring and
successful burglaries ever per-
petrated in this county was the
post Office ROBBERY pulled off here
at an early hour Monday morning.
About a quarter to four Mr.
Thompson, living near the Office,
was awakened by a heavy report
and got up in time to see a man
emerge from the rear door of the
building carrying a mail sack
about half filed over his shoul-
der.
He~ awakened Orpheus White,
who lives in the adjoining house,
and he telephoned to Postmaster
Hawley and Chief of Police Cher
~ informing them that the post
Office had been robbed.
Hawley and Cherry, together
with others who had heard the
explosion, were quickly on the
scene. They found the front and
back doors of the building open
adm the room full of smoke and
fumes from the nitro-glycerine.
Going inside they found that the
safe had been blown open and
riAed of its contents. The force
of the explosion must have been
terrific as both the outside doors
as we'll as the inner doors and
the door to the iron treasur box
were blown completely off and the
heavy Innings Of the doors was
blown out on the floor, leaving
the doors themselves mere skel-
etons.
AS near as can be ascertained
the robbers secured in the neigh
borhood of five thousand dollars
in cash and nearly four thousand
dollars worth of stamps. AS
the greater part Of the money was
in registered packages the exact
amount taken cannot be known
until the registered packages are
checked back One package
sent by the Old National Bank of
Spokane to one Of the local banks
is said to have contained about
four thousand dollars in currency
In addition to the other regis
tered packages there was about
a thousand dollars of other mon
ey in the safe, consisting of saw
ings deposits and money orders
The ROBBERS were evidently in
hurry as they did not disturb
the money in the money drawer OF
the stsmpa which were outside
of the safe. Tehy gained an en-
trance through the transom over
the front door, which was founC
open after the robbery. In or
der to get from the corridor in
to the Office they orawled through
one of the carrier windows in the
rear Of the corridor. After get
ting inside they evidently opened
both the front and back doors il
order to give them a chance tC
escape should they be interrupt
ed in their work.
Enoy are thought to have mad
their escape by means Of a boa
on the river as several person
who were awakened by the ex
piosion claimed to have hear
what sounded like a one cyliude
gasoline engine shortly after tn
explosion. This sound cam
from towards the river back o
the post Office and sounded a
though the launch was in walin
with its engine running ready {
recviee the robbers and thei
rlunder.
The sheriff's Office was mott
fe of the robbery as we'll a
th9post Office authorities in Spo
kane. Deputy Sheriff Harr
Sawyer came up at noon and tn
post Office department also ha
a man here but so far as is know
TO clue to the perpetrators ha
been found.
A track was found on the floC
of the post Office and it was pre-
served to allow the officers
take measurements. 1t is sal
that the package of money whic
the Old National was sending