The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-25
Three Stores on East Side
of Main Street Were
Entered
LARGEST HAUL WAS
AT F. w. KUECH'S
About S25 and Scme Underwear Sc
cured There - Root S Pharmacy and
Simons's Fruit Store Visited-Win-
dows Reached by Ladder.

/ Burglars made three breaks in stores
on the east side of Main street last
night, obtaining little over SIS in
money, some underwear, some fruit.
/ four cheap watches and a few cigars.
/ The stores entered were F. W Kuech :
I drygoods store, Ebert Simons s fruit
store and Wilfred +. Root s pharmacy.
In each instance entrance was gained
! through back windows. 4 ladder was
used 10 reach the windows in the stores
/ of Mr.. kuech and Mr.. Root, while a
window IN the basement of Mr.. ST.
mons 3 store was broken in.
To gain entrance to Mr.. Kuech
/ store a ladder was thrown up against
a rear shed from the railroad bank.
! This was drawn u on the shed ano
raised against one of the back win
i dows of the store, the catch of which
was broken, indicating possibly, as no
I effort was made to force one of the
other windows, that those making the
break were familiar with the condition
of the window.
| The richest haul of the night was
made in this store. In two money
drawers under the counters had been
I left about $25, most of il in change.
All of this, with the exception of one
/ iold-fashioned copper cent, was taken.
/ In small envelope were two gold
crowns in bridge-work that had been
idrawn recently from Mr.. Kuech s
mouth. These were missing from the
drawer, but were found this morning
on the roof of the shed. Some men 5
underwear was taken, but how much is
not definitely known. One mdershirt
was found hanging in 4 low tree at the
rear of the building where it had been
thrown evidently from the roof of the
she'd Another shirt and two pairs Of
! drawers were found on the bank
| An electric light left burning over
the desk in the rear part Of the store
was found burning this morning. No
attempt was made to open the safe.
| The burglars were not able to get
! up stairs in the fruit store. So far as
could be determined this morning
only few oranges were taken from
the basement. there being nothing there
to appeal TO the intruders. The door of
the stairway leading from the base
mcnt had been securely bolted and
showed no signs of having been tenn
pered with.
The burglars took a barrel from near
the rear of the drug store and placed
/ a ladder on that in order to enable
them to reach the rear window.
piece of the upper pane Of glass was
lhroken out and the catch released. Mr..
Root : store is in a state of consider
able confusion, owing to the work of
moving to new location, but so far
as could be determined only a little
change in the stamp drawer and four
dollar watches on stand one one Of
the eases were taken.
A popularity of the break in Mr..
Root s store was that not particle of
glass could be found on the floor and
there was none to be seen outside near
| the window. Mr.. Root considers the bur
glars thoughtful to have cleaned up the,
debris that must have been made when
the window was broken.
The breaks were reported to State S
Attorney o. B. Hughes, Chief George
Wilson and Sheriff G. e. Mann.