The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-12
THIEVES GET
LARGE HAUL
I'll. M. Woods Store Entered
-RevOlyers and Other
Articles Gone
ACCESS GAINED BY
PERSISTENT EFFORT
-Four Doors Tried and Finally Hole Is
Cut Through Plate G1ass-Mr. Wood
Believes Men Were Familiar With
Interior of Store.


Burglars made a good haul last night
from the sporting goods store of II. NJ.
Wood They We're persistent in their
efforts to effect an entrance, even if
some of the methods they adopted were
amateurish. At one back door they
failed to get in after breaking the
glass and unlocking the door. At the
cellar door, which they managed to
pry open wide enough to release a two
by-four prop, they were successful in
gaining entrance to the building, but
were bafficd by the door at the top of
the stairs.
They then resorted to the front door,
using Il glass cutter on the heavy plate
glass near the lock and breaking out
the glass with a stone, which was
found on the floor Of the store this
morning. The hole III the glass was
just large enough to admit man S
hand.
Mr.. Wood said this morning after a
hurried inventory that from II to 10
revolvers, ranging in price from SO to
$3.50, were missing, some having been
taken from the front window, where a
| Colt 25-cahbre automatic was left af
[ ter being moved to one side. \ 32-
calibre automatic Savage revolver was
| left, having been overlooked evidently
| in one of the eases. Two new guns
| that arrived Yesterday and had not
| been unpacked were untouched. No
ammunition was taken.
| About IS was taken from the cash
drawer, but considerable money in
plain sight in the cigar ease was over
looked. Three dozen pocket knives,
about dozen Ingersoll watches and Il
number Of Gillett safety razors are
missing.
Mr. Wood believes that the men weIe
familiar with the interior of the store
| for they did not attempt to use any OF
the pocket flash lights in the show
case, but took one that was in a special
place IN the rear of the store and which
was ready for use.
The first attempt evidently was made
at the back door which opens into n
small room used as dark room. Boxes
are nailed to the floor against the dool
and a wide shelf would have prevented
the door being opened very far. The
| glass in the door was broken with &
small stone near the lock, the stone be
ing lodged between the window pane
and the glass. The burglars unlocked
this door, but they found it impossible
to open it without making too mucl
noise.
They then tried the door leading tt
the cellar under the Wood store anC
that of Harry B. Haus, grocer.
piece of two-by-four timber wa
placed against the lock of this door
The men were able to pry this opel
far enough to get an iron pipe in ant
finally managed to force the stick int
the earth floor enough to enable then
to reach in and remove the stick. a
4 the top of the stairs they encountered
locked door leading into the store. The.
evidently worked some time at the locl
5 and door knob, but without tools, an
finally resorted to the front door. Al
ter entrance had been gained the doc
leading to the cellar was unlocked an
the stick replaced against the celia
door.
State s Attorney O. B. Hughes an
o Police Chief George Wilson were not
. fed this morning and started an inve.
+ tigation.
= 1t was the first night of the new pc
. lice arrangement by which only on
y officer is on duty during the latter pa
= of the night, Chief Wilson going o
- duty at noon and remaining until pa
" midnight