The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-25
Post Office So Often Scene of Expectations of Yegg
 Is Again footed
TOURING GAR WHIsKs
 DEsPERADOEs AWAY
Running Fire With Police of NerwaIk and Stamford
 Fails to Halt Escape

W1bnH part OI t1lOtI SdHS OAA guard with pistols in hands, and the rest desperately attacking the safe of the Fairfield post of flee, five auto bandits succeed ed in making away with about S2Oo worth of loot from the heavy safe, and after sensa- tional gun play in Fairfield, N6rwalk and Stamford, cover ing their tracks.
 Their first shot was fired at two Fairfield men, who stum- bled into the midst Of the safe blowers quite by accident. The Fairfielders quickly gave the alarm, but so expertIy did the anintet Of robbers work that they blew open the huge iron chest before the officers could intercept them.
 With dawn, Fairfield looked upon a scene of desolation at the post office. Three heavy charges of explosives had wrecked the massive safe, and had blown the building severe Y.
 The office, visited by yegg- men naany times, did not suf-. fer SO heavily as it might have done had not the postmaster anticipated the visit of cracks men by keeping many valu- ables from the office safe, and lodging them in a secure hid: ing place.
 The double -doored vault of the Fair neld postodfce Is wrecked as we'll as an Inside safe, all three having been blown with nitro -glyeerine. but the bandits secured less than $20o in money and stamps, Postmasber simon C. Bradley having taken precautionary measures to prevent much larger sum being found by any who sought to repeat the many robberies that nave already been perpetrated at the Fsairfield office.
 It was about 3:30 this morning that a large automobile containing five men drew up on the Nichols road near the Fairfield avenue extension, and about 500 yards from the postomce. A Con- necticut autonobIIe license, originally Gi61os or 16d6S. but so bent back as to appear as C161s was taken from the ear and evidently replaced with an other one.
 The robbers then approached the postohace bearing their tools and two water-aoaked confortabies, TheS 1i1nnnied off wire screen on a window at the Nachols street side of the build. ing and climbing upon a cement bal aistrade gained admission As they were about to do so. Ray Randall an6 Sidney Morris, who~had been enjoying a late game of pinochFe in the Ran, ner of the post-offfce on their wal nome They were in the midst of tn, burglars before they had time to ap preciate the situation. One of tn thinking that they were local men said, ssOh! that's all right and botl were continuing their way when on of the robbers opened ire with 9 re vo1ver. the shot passing directly be tween the two residents and entering the plate glass window of A. J. Ben wayss hardware store across the street A large portion of the glass was de nnoIished.
 Randall and Morris promptly aks cepted the order and retired around the building to wake I'D Assistan Pesfznaster O..C Jennings and Deput, sheriff EIwood at Southport and in them of the situation.
 The robbers then went to work with in the building, first knocking off tn combination of the large five foot stee door of the vault. After careful, soapfng the edges they discharged large quantity Of nitro -glycerine whicl blew plaster all over the post-offfce With this door open they repeate the operation on a. smaller door with -in, and again on a large interior safe M Each was expert1y attacked and onl the doors and combinations wrecked
 With the loot they made good thei escape and Jumping into their ca swung at high speed into the Pm Creek road and thence to the mai highway near Southport At tn Dead Mans Curve the- swung un der the trestIe of the railroad at hig speed. They nearly coIlided wit Deputy Sheriff EIwood who was hurry ing to Fairfield. Realizing that bi 5fftIe automobile could not overtax the big 6-cylinder Cole car in whic the robbers rode away at terrif speed, sSherin Elwood called up .h NorwaIk police by margin Of tv minutes.
 Officer Murphy of Norwalk who ha just been sent from police headQual 4ers fe stop the car saw 1t comin as he reached Main and Wall stree1
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