The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-04-13
Mysterious ''Raffles' Does Smooth
Job in First National Bank
Building During an Hour
Sunday Afternoon
GET AWAY WITH
GOLD WORTH S275
Entrance Supposed to Have Been
Effected by Using Knife Blade
on Spring Locks No
Trace Left

Between the hours of and 6 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, robber entered
the different dental offices in the
First National Bank building and made
clean getaway with gold Filings.
plate and facing work to the amount
OF about $275
In each instance, it Is believed, en-
trance was effected by inserting thin
bade at the edge Of the door facing
and pushing the spring locks back
When the robbery was first discovered
II was thought that the only way en-
trance could be effected was by a
master pass key but by an examina-
tion II was seen where the spring
locas had been shot back by the pres
sure of blade upon them.
Evidently ye Raffles was expert
enced in his line. for he overlooked
nothing in the way OF gold The or
ficcs robbed were DR.. A. G. Crosse. Lr
r. Fl Williams and DR. s II Bond In
Dr. Bonds office were several gold
crowns upon which he had been TX
ing during the day. in addition TO
either unfinished jobs in the way VI
plates and facings Nothing was left
except the plaster cast Of the teeth.
From this office was taken about so
worth OF gold
DR.. Williams was the heaviest loser,
He had recently received a supply OF
gold and had placed Il in his safe yes
terday evening. but did not turn the
lock sufficiently for the combination
TO catch. The burglar simply turned
ii back and opened the door. About
5000 worth OF gold was taken from the
safe.
Luckily for DR.. Crosse he had only a
little scrap gold in his gold drawer.
4s supply OF plate and Filings was Sc
creted and his total loss did not ex-
ceed S25 1t was DR., Crosse who first
discovered the robbery. when he came
to his office about $50 last night, Both
DR.. Bond and Dr. Williams were In
their offices yesterday afternoon until
: O'Clock. The elevators in the build.
ing stop at noon on Sundays and the
building was practically deserted, ex-
ccpt for a general round of inspeotics.
by the ianltor.
Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday
evening the janitor was completing a
tour He noticed the door to the Of
flee OF DIR. Crosse was standing slightly
open and that the light was on in the
reception room. Thinking DR. Crosse
was in the office. he entered, but see
ing no one, decided that Dr. Crose had
been there and had forgotten to turn
Off the light or TO shut the door. He
closed the door, turned out the light
aud left
About 8 o'clock DR., w II. Livermore,
his wife and two children went up the
steps and into the Chickasha hospital
on the first floor. There was no light
IN the office Of DR.. Crosse at that time.
Afte- few minutes, however, while
: the little boy was pecking away at a
typewriter in the hospital office he
heard some one at work in DR.. Crose
office, just beyond a partition, and
within two feet Of where heawas sit
ting. Thinking 1t was the dentist, he
called to his little sister that DR.. Crosse
was in his office If she wanted to get
the funny paper The little girl wenl
TO the door, but 1t was locked. Sht
returned and said that the door was
locked but that she could see the doc
tors shadow on the frosted glass par
ttion
Just how close young Livermore wa'
to catching a real live burglar at wori
was learned when the discovery wa
made that the partition door, betweei
the hospital office and the dentists of
gice was unlocked. The boy was play
ing at the typewriter and on the othe
side OF an eight or ten inch wall,
man was busily engaged in collectin
all the available gold Two feet sout
of the typewriter was the nnlocke
door joining the two suites. When tn