The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-12-02
ROBBERS MAKE
RICH HAUL In
RICHLAND P. @.
Safe is Looted of More than Five
Hundred Dollars in Stamps
.g and Money
YEDICA'S STORE ROBBED ALSO
officers are Left but Scanty Clue by
which to Run Down the 1H
Criminals %

Richland, Wash, Dec. 1--Richland
is experiencing its first real metropol-
itan excitement due to the fact that
on Tuesday night two real robberies
were committed. The Richland post
Office was broken into and close to
$500 in stamps stolen while the gem
eral merchandise store Of H. +. Yed-
lea suffered a like fate with loss Of
between $5 and $40 in currency.
The postoffice was entered from
rear door a panel of which was
smashed by the robbers in their effort
to secure an entrance. Postmaster
Walter Zimmerman has not taken an
inventory of his loss but thinks it is
in the neighborhood of $500. The safe
was opened by manipulating the COM
bination, the thieves then making their
getaway, leaving bat few traces
by which they can be located.
The Yedica store was entered by
the front door which was badly
smashed, while the lock was broken.
Mr.. Yedica had left his safe open Tues
day evening after removing the great
er part of the days receipts so that
naul made by the robbers was
small. They also carried off two or
three small articles of merchandise
including pair of suspenders. A
drawer from the safe was found up
| in the front part of the store.
Harry Maupin, who lives just in the
rear of the Yedica store building,
says he was awakened at about two
o'clock in the night by the fierce bark
ing of his two dogs. These dogs are
the very best kind of watch dogs and
from their continued barking at this
time it is thought that possibly the
burglars were at work between twelve
and two in the morning. Another
thing which leads Mr.. Maupin to hold
this view is the fact that he found on
his porch on Wednesday morning a
large piece of overall cloth which has
all the appearance of having been torn
from pair of overalls by dog which
was after the wearer.
Oae fact seems positively assured,
however, and that is that the men
were in some kind of rig, as traces
of the wheels are plainly visible and
from this alone it is to be hoped that
they may be overtaken.
Deputy Sheriff w. S. Davidson has
appointed several young men to Sc
cure saddle horses and scour the
country in an endeavor to locate any
suspicious characters and bring them
in.
Sheriff on the Job
Sheriff c. E. Duffy arrived in Rich
land yesterday afternoon and has been
working on the case continuously
since. When seen at Hotel Kennewick
last evening he had not yet run down
any clue which might lead to the cap
ture of the robbers. From the tracks
in the moist ground around the looted
place he is certain there were two OF
the robbers. A significant feature
about the tracks is their smallness.
A six shoe just fits into the larger
while a number five is little large
for the smaller.
1t is known also that the robbers
entered the grade school building
where they secured pinch bar with
which they attempted to force one OF
the postofice windows and which was
later recovered near the building. The
men built a fire in the school house
where they evidently spent the earlier
hours Of the night
The cash drawer in Lasher's Phar-
macy, il which the post3fice was To-
Gated, did not escape the attention OF
the robbers who relieved it of about
SIS in small change. The postoffice
loses were, S445 in stamps, $40 in bills
and gold and about $40 in dimes, nick
els and pennies.
One of the robbers left behind him
a nearly new pair Of dark gray knit
gloves, but other than these and the
footprints, the officers have but little
to work upon.