Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1917-06-01
SEDER LOSES
MORE GOODS
Burglars Enter Saturday Night by Same
Window as on Previous Saturday Night
Try to Get Into Donahue's. Enter
Garage

That bold burglars are at work in
Putnam is evidenced by the Seder
store being broken into again Saturday
night. This is the second break in
week and the fifth in Is months. The
store again loses some $500 worth of
merchandise in suits and waists be-
sides So. 2S in cash left in a cash regis
ter. When people learned of the break
Sunday morning they could hardly
credit it. 1t seemed SO improbable that
men weuld be daring enough to come
back to the same place they entered
just week previous.
MIR. Seder is wrought up over the
affair and is astonisned at the apparent
ease with which burglars operate in
Putnam and get away without anyone
being apprehended. He Is wondering
If the thefts are ever going to cease or
if it will be necessary fol- him TO pay
Waterman to stay in his store TO pro-
teet his'goods.
Entrance was gained In the same
manner as in the previous break. The
man or men went up the back stairs TO
the roof and got in through the same
transom window as before. This time
they broke q pain of glass to unfasten
the catch.
The break was again discovered by
William Wilmot, clerk, when he. went
to the store at $50 O'Clock Sunday
morning to put. out the night lights.
A cloth covering merchandise WAS
used to cover rear door so that one on
the outside could not see in.
Sunday 1t WAS learned that $6.2s in
the cash register was missing, as were
a number of silk, waists. Monday
morning 8 suit hangers were found
carefully hidden away denoting that
nine suits had also been taken.
That the burglars worked leisurely
In the rear of the building is evidenced
by marks of a jimmy or screw driver
on the blinds and door at the Donahue
drug store and in the garage OF Joseph
Langlois across the alley, which had
been entered.
At the Langlois garage a window
was pried up few inches. Marks of
jimmy or screw driver are clearly
observable in the bottom of the win.
dow sash and the sill. The window
could not be pushed up father so the
lock on the door was pried open. Here
the same marks of jimmy or screw
driver were in evidence. AS far AS
could be learned not thing in the
garage was taken. This calls for an
answer to the ,questicn as to why so
| much trouble should be taken 10 get
in unless something was wanted.
1t may be that one of the automo'
mobiles WAS used to carry of the
goods and then the auto returned.
This seems improbable but man who
sleeps in the building nights heard an
automobile engine racing between one
and three O'Clock Sunday morning.
Wooden shutters and screen door
on the rear of the Donahue store also
bear the same imprints in number OF
different places of the same screw
driver or jimmy. 1t must have taken
considerable time to do all of this
work.
A woman in a house nearby says
that, Saturday, about dusk, she saw
two strange men looking abe ut at the
rear of the store. She describes the
men and tells how they were dressed.
Not only is Mr.. Seder wrought up
over the frequent breaks in his store,
which are only few of n long list in
the city within the past two years, but
other merchants and garage owners
are becoming worried at the apparent
ease with which breaks are committed
in Putnam in stores and garages.
Vomen's Liberty Loan Committee