Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
FOUR STORES AT GILMAN AND
FOUR AT STATE CENTER EN-.
TERED BY BURGLARS
THlRTY-NlNE DOLLARS
IN CASH is STOLEN
Darrah. Gregg, Taylor Bros. and Gould
o-"s Company Stores of Gilman En-
tered-6ishop. 6rimhaII Bros. and
George German Victims at State
Center-Losses Are Small.

Burglars. operating on a wholesale
scale. who We're evidently only after
cash broke into eight stores. four in
Gilman and four in State Center, sum
day night. The total amount of their
thefts was $685.. of which s29 was
stolen from the Gilman stores and
s1065 from the State Center stores.
i No merchandise was taken from any of
the stores. as far as could be learned
today.
+ Both series of thefts We're reported
10 the sherff'S office. Sheriff Edgar
spent the day at Gilman. Deputy
(! Sheriff 4. G. Goodale investigated the
State Center burglarieS. No clues were
uncovered at either place up to noon.
Smash Windows at Gilman.
! The places robbed a Gilman were
the H P Darrah general merchandise
store the Stephen Gregg hardware store
F.! TAYLOR Bros. hardware store, and the
Gould Drug Company. AT each place
the method used was the same.
y brick or stone was hurled thru the
front window or glass of the front door,
and the door unlocked. The window
was broken in the Darrah store.
Twenty dollars left in the cash register
was taken.
Adjoining this store is the Gregg
hardware store. An unlocked door
connected the two stores. One dollar
in change was taken from the Gregg
store cash drawer,
Hear Noise About O'clock.
a stone was hurled thru the plate
glass door OF the Gould Drug Com
pany's store and the cash register
yielded SIS in change.
The plate glass door was broken with
rock in the Taylor Bros. store, but
no cash had been left in the store.
/ The damage done by breaking plate
glass of the Gilman stores amounts to
much more than the money stolen.
Mrs Swisher, who lives near the bust
ness district. is said to have heard the
noise of the breaking glass about l
o'clock this morning, but she did not
know what it was The town has no
night Waterman.
State Center Losses Small.
The NJ. NJ. Bishop general merchan-
disc store. Brimhall Bros. furniture
store. Brimhall Bros drug store and
! the harness shop Of George w. German
We're entered at State Center. En-
trance was forced from the rear.
! Entrance was gained thru base
j ment window that was unfastened in
! the building occupied by the German
+; harness shop. The safe. Which was
unlocked. was opened, and SO was
! stolen from ii.
/ The Brimhan Bros. drug store was
entered by first breaking off the latch
OF the iron door outside the rear door.
| The glass of the inner door was then
I broken. and the lock was unfastened.
sixty five cents was all that was in
the cash drawer.
\ rear window of Brnhal Bros.
furniture store was broken. The cash
register had been opened. but no money
had been left in ii.
\ rear door of Bishops store was
forced Here also the cash register
had been opened, but IL contained
nothing. 1t is thought these burglaries
We're committed about II o'clock. Ed
Fish. employed in the Bishop store
stopped at the store between II and
II O'Clock. He found the store door
and cash register open.