The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-08
Broke into c. S. Meaker's
House on Jefferson Street
and Stole $125
WHILE THE FAMILY
WERE AT /" MOVIES :"
The Marauder Refused to
Take Jewelry and War
Stamps

After more than three weeks inactiv-
ity, Barre's house breaker resumed his
operations last night and stole Sl25 in
money from the house of Clayton, G.
Meaker of jefferson street and, strangely
enough, refused to take some war savings
stamps and valuable jewelry he had ex
smiued in the light of search lamp
which he found nearby and which he car
ried with him in making his exit from
the house. The search lamp, still burn
ing, was found just inside a cellar win.
dow, where the marauder had made his
entrance and his departure,
The robbery was perpetrated during
the early hours of the evening, between
7 o'clock and $3.50 o'clock. the break be-
ing discovered by the members of the
Mealler family after returning from the
movies" On going out of the house
they turned out all the lights, so that the
burglar had fairly good conditions in
which TO work. He probably was watch
ing the house when the family left, the
theory being based on information Just
come to light that two weeks ago the
members of the Meaker family saw two
men acting suspiciously in the neighbor-
hood of their house. The men probably
were waiting for a good opportunity to
break in
Approaching the house last evening
from the rear by way of Elm street, the
burglar first tried the hatchway and
failed TO move the fastenings OF that
door; so he went to the cellar window,
also in the rear, walking over untrodden
sapw and leaving a large imprint 1t
was comparatively easy work to force in
the cellar window and he crawled into
the cellar and thence found his way, un-
hindered by any fasteuings, to the first
floor of the house.
Nothing on the first floor of the house
seems to have been molested; but the
burglar steered his course straight for a
second story bedroom used by Mr. Meak-
er. Without making any unnecessary
moves, the burglar went to the bureau
and began rummaging through the things
in the drawers first hauling out the
search lamp from the bureau Under.
meath some collars, neckties, etc, Mr..
Meaker had placed a wallet containing
approximately sl25. Running his hand
under these neckties and collars, the thief
soon landed on the pocketbook. He next
turned his attention to the jewelry and
war stamps, which were lying on top Of
the bureau or placed loosely in the draw
ers. None Of this was taken away, the
burglar caidently preferring TO take no
chances OF Identification with any loot Of
that nature on his person.
His aim accomplished, he descended the
stairs to the first floor and then to the
cellar, carrying the search Temp with him
to aid him in making t 80 { trouble
some get away from the ~ess Of the
cellar. Whether by desig@ not, he left
the lamp burning on an object lust in
side Of the cellar window as he clambered
out. His retreating footprints were plain
~ seen by the police, who were called by
Mr.. Meaker on his retuEn from the 'mov-
les" and his discovery of the robbery.
The tracks led back from the rear Of the
house, over a slight embankment past
the barn OF Fl. B. Houghton, thence along
a line of freshly washed clothes and into
Elm street, the footprints there mingling
with countless others and the trace being,
of course, lost.
Thus far there are no clues to the rob
ber II is evident from the tracks that
only one person was engaged in the ac-
tual commission of the crime. The rob
berry has all the ear-marks of the breaks
perpetrsted in the same neighborhood
three weeks ago when house on Elm
street, another on Eastern avenue and q
third on Park street were visited, All
these places are within radius of 400
yards, In those instances the burglar
was partial TO war stamps as we'll as to
money. Those crimes are still msolved.