The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-16
MAKE MANY CHANGES CRAEBAER BACKS UPROB TWO OFFICES
conference Work Man Admits He
nosha Methodist Churches Was Pretty SHADES
Several New Pastors port City Poor Farm Night Monday A. NJ
STAIR RETURNS 10 kENOH MEETS ALDERMEN ON MONDAY MUNSTER OFFICE TOUCHED
Bd Office Robbrs AVA
for More Than saoa Two Kenoha
Run County, omda Are
Pen Changes / Late Notifying Sheriff.
Safe Blown in Post Office at
SHADES Corners Sunday
Night or Monday A. M.
MUNSTER OFFICE IS TOUCHED
Post Office Robbers Get Away With
More Than $500 at Two Kenosha
County Villages But oficials Are
Late in Notifying the Sheriff.

Believing it just possible that the
sheriff of the county might be inter
ested in the fact that the safe at the
postofdce at SHADES Corners had been
blown up and robbed on Sunday, Post
master Paul Sauer Of the little west
ern limits village notified Sheriff Stahl
to this effect late Monday afternoon.
The sheriff got to SHADES Corners
just as fast as an automobile would
take him, but when he got there he
was not lucky in digging up clews as
to the identity Of the postofice rob-
bers and with nearly a whole days
start they are probably long way
from SHADES Corners. The trip Of the
sheriff was not IN vain as he stopped
at New Munster on the way in and
found that the postoffice there had al
SO been robbed some time Sunday night
or Monday morning. The robbers
made considerable haul at SHADES
Corners, getting away with cash and
stamps to the value of five hundred
dollars. At New Munster they secur-
ed stamps to the value of about five
dollars. Not all of the money secured
at the SHADES Corners postofice was
government funds. AS part Of it be-
longed to the Sauer store in which the
postofice is located.
SHADES Corners just rolled the NOR
sci of having a real postofice robbery
around in its mouth for more than
twelve hours before the report was
made.
The sheriff when he got there found
that the robbery Of the office was
probably the work Of an expert gang
Of postofdce robbers The men had
entered the sauer store through one
of the side windows, lifting it with
chisel and before the blast was ar
ranged every possible precaution was
made to keep SHADES Corners from
knowing that there were undesirable
visitors in their midst. A hundred
sacks Of flour had been piled against
the safe door after the charge Of dyna-
mite had been placed in three holes
drilled into the iron door Of the safe
and when the explosion took place it
just toppled off the door and the en-
tire sound was deadened by the flour.
The men stripped the safe clean They
got $274.53 in cash and checks, humid
rod dn71arc worth IF Yoc+oro e+a,,y,s
ten dollars worth Of special delivery
stamps, a lot Of postage due stamps
and number Of the old style parcel
post stamps. They took along the key
to the cash drawer probably with the
idea that they might return at some
later time.
Postmaster Sauer discovered the
robbery when he went to the postof
fee just after six O'Clock Monday
morning. The store was all in confu-
sion as the blast Of the dynamite had
thrown -four from one end Of it to the
other. Tracks in the mud road along
the side of the postofice Indicated that
the robbers had come and gone in an
automobile and the imprint Of the
tires indicated that they had gone
toward Burlington.
Over at Munster the entrance to the
postofice was made by forcing win
dow and the small sum Of money Sc
cured there was. taken out Of, the cash
drawer.
This is the first postofice robbery
that Kenosha county has had in years
and it is probable that when the re
port reaches federal authorities that
government detectives will be sent to
the county in an effort to solve the
mystery connected with the two
robberies
The people at SHADES Corners could
give no reason for the slow report of
the robbery to the local officials.
So far as is known no suspicious
parties were seen about SHADES Corners
on Sunday night, but on account of
the heavy rain the SHADES Corners PEG
pie retired early and they evidently
retired without even the widest
dreams Of visit Of postofice robbers.