The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-20
THEMES MAKE BIG HAULS IN
 MAIN STREET Hawley Hardware Go. Esti- mates It's Loss at From
 40o to $500 DENTAL PARLoRs
 ALSO BURGLARIzED Five Patrolmen On Duty Near Scene Questioned
 at Headquarters

The Haw4ey Hardware com pany store. I12O Main street, between Fair field avenue and Elm street was bl1rgIarized over night for the second time within six months, thieves talk ing between $5 % and $500 in valuable u1achine tools and high speed twiss
 This bold attack upon a Main street stoEA has disclosed another and even mora mysterious burglary in the sanae building which resulted in the esti- mated loss of about $a0o to Dr. Ed- ward J. Leonard of the Nature Dem tfsts, 11z4 Main street
 The Hawley Hardware store was probabIy entered sometime during yesterday afternoon or evening by q burglar who hid himself in the store and, after all the clerks had gone been carefully locked and barred sincsi the previous attempt last September or October when about. $50 worth of hrearrns was stolen.
 The thief, working behind a desk ], in ele office first enptied 8 quantsss@ leather grip belonging to Joseph Fl. Sfagg, president and treasurer of the Haw1ey Hardware company. He fill ga his bag with coInpasses and naicrometers and 2 few. twist drills On the second floor front which cor responds to the third floor in the rear, footsteps down an unused and dust covered staircase show that hs walked down to the second floor Of the buiId- ing at 1124 Main street, which houses the AIIing Rubber company's office on the street floor and the Eastern Mill linery company and the Nature Dem tists on tIae second floor. Unlocking the door from the inside by means of a turn bolt he walked out upon the street as if he had come from any one of the ofices in the building.
 The office and store were closed at six o'clock last evening and dis covery was not made until tho place was opened today. The presence on the floor of a quantity of papers be- longing to President ,Stagg first at tracted attent1on to the robbery which was quickly followed by nosifcation of the loss of stock. So we'll have the hardware people control of their stock than an inventory was made for the police within three hours.
 This robbery today caused five po- HceInen on duty in the vicinity last 9 night to be called to account by Su- perfntendent Birmingham today. The man arg Bennedetti A. CoughIin, J. F.. Cough1in, T. Griffin and B. Glen non. These men all aver that no sus- piciol1s person was seen in the dis- pecia1 policeman. Peabody, employed by the Hardware company to watch the premises saw nothing suspicious.
 It was learned today that another robbery in the building was committed about a week ago which relieved Dr. Leonard of the Naturo Dentists from about $20O, Though the police have been working on the case no informa- ton is available today and Dr. Leon ard refused to state today to reporters where and when it occurred. The reticence Of all concerned is taken as an indication today that the police are working upon clues that may have a significant bearing upon the present case This however is denied by Dr. Leonard.
 Work by the police on the robbery of Sf11fman & Godfrey's safe at 1119 Broad street, which has been kept under cover since Wednesday last, tends to reveal that the robbery was either done by someone closely con- neeted with the business or through carelessness in leaving the safe open permitted a key worker to abstract $7e in cash and about s 500 in checks for deposit from the vaults.
 The detectives have found that while a cashier expected the safe would be locked by MT. SiI1tman, and that head of the company at first stated that it was locked by him be- fore the office was closed, there is a possibility today that the safe was not locked. The uncertainty makes it extremely difficult for detectives to solve the mystery.