The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-14
Enter Post OItiGe
Three Shot, Five Captured In An
Exciting ARRAY

Last Friday was pay day at the pow
der works. With the expectation that
large sums of money would be in the
safes in Penns Grove Post Office burg
lars made a second raid in a month, but
were shot and captured.
Two weeks previous when assistant
Marshal Joseph Money was ON duty he
was told that he was needed at Union
Corner because of a disturbance. While
there the Post Office was broken into,
sacks cut and letters taken and cut open
with the hopes of getting money. What
was taken has not been learned because
the postal savings money is put in Penns
Grove National Bank.
Last Monday Mrs. Henry Miller saw
a man who robbed her cottage some
months ago had got out of Jail. He came
over on the ferry boat with others and
all acted suspicious in viewing the prem
ises in and around the post office. Mrs.
Miller told postmaster Hunt, who mott
fed post Office detectives who were pres
ent Friday night to assist in capturing
the burglars.
The local police force with the postal
inspectors, Furniss. Wynne, Hoetby and
McVickers, of Philadelphia, were in
houses where the operation could be seen.
About $50 the band arrived and soon OPP
ened the front door with a jimmy push
ed in beside the lock. 1t took only FIVE
minutes to open the small safe. They
had a powerful a~cetylene gas apparatus
and diamond drills with which they could
have entered the large safe in seven min
utes, but before they did that the guards
appeared and opened fire.
Marshals Money and Harbeson were in
the house of bank cashier John Hare,
Jr., who saw the whole performance.
Mr.. Money fired his revolver at the man
on guard before the post office. He re-
turned the fire and sent a bullet into
John Hare's house. Marshal Harbeson
then fired. A bullet hit the man in the
elbow and he fell.
He was Frank Watson, aged So, of
Galesburg, Ill.
They opened the back door to the post
Office and when John Mayo went out
Marshal Lewis Petit shot him with a
shot gun. His face, body, arm and foot
were badly peppered. He is aged ~
years and from st. Paul, MINI.
Charles Collins, who gave no address
was shot in the hands. The other men
were Frank Stebbins, aged %, of San
Francisco, and Frank Stratton,' no adj
dress.
The Marshals and posse of citizens
captured three men. The du Point mount
ed police were summoned by phone and
the ground %resounded as they galloped
into town. They went in pursuit of the
three who escaped.
The three captured were put into the
lookup aud taken to Camden on the 6 As
O'Clock train. The two men who es-
capped boarded the 7.06 train at Ped
ricktown and were captured by dupont
guards. One had two revolvers and one
had no hat.
They had planned to put a bag over
Marshal Moneys head and put him out of
the way, but seeing no one they thought
him asleep and began their burglary with
out fear of detection.
Jacob Adams, Charles B. Norton, w.
F. Yeager, f w. Layton, Powers Lay
ton and Postmaster T. e. Hunt were
among the posse who participated in the
exciting war event.
The wounded prisoners were taken to
Cooper Hospital, Camden, where their
wounds were dressed after which all
were taken to Camden Jail,