The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-01
BARRE'S BURGLAR
DID HARD WORK
TO GET 80 CENTS
Broke Into Store of Barre Electric Co. in
Wheelock Building By Climbing in a
Second-Story Window and Then
Boring Through Door to
Turn Lock.

! Mr.. Burglar continues to make good
copy" for the newspapers and bad times
| for the Barre police. He continued his
raids last night by breaking into the
store of the Barre Electric Co, in the
| Wheelock building beside the Worthen
| block on North Main street, but his
! booty was in inverse proportion to the
trouble he had He got 80 cents.
| And this is the trouble he went to in
order to get in. Instead Of going to the
! front door, which is always left unlocked
| into the hallway, he secured a ladder and
raised il against the rear of the little
| lunchroom structure which sets between
! the Wheeiocll and Worthen buildings
| Climbing to the roof Of the lunchroom
| he opened a window into the second
story of the Wheelock building and then
| found himself Just where he might have
! been by pushing open the front door
But there his progress was barred by
! stout, hardwood door leading to the store
and Office of the electric company. But
I he was supplied with bit stock and
borer, and with this be bored six holes
near the lock, three holes opposite three:
and he then knocked the intervening
wood out, leaving an aperture not more
than three inches long and about one
and one-hslf inches wide
Through this opening hand was
thrust and the knob on the lock was
turned back, and the door swung open.
The hand of an ordinary.sized man can
not be thrust through the aperture; but
woman's hand will readily 90 through
land reach the knob on the lock
Inside the store the burglar found all
the tools he needed for plying his trade.
He used one Of the company's screw
drivers to pry at the money drawer, one
of the sliding kind under counter; and
failing to loosen the catch, he proceeded
TO take off the strips of wood which hold
the drawer in place. That was easier
and the drawer was soon detached.
However, he found only 30 pennies left
| in the drawer. as the receipts had been
placed in a little safe near the money
drawer That the burglar tried his hand
at reading the combination of the safe
is indicated by the fact that the pointer
was found at an even mark when the
store was opened this morning. But the
little safe stood pat and refused to
bulge; whereupon the burglar turned his
attention to ransacking the store. All
the glass cases which hold stock were
opened as if the burglar expected to find
money concealed back of the goods,
There was no money back of the goods,
however, and, so far as can be learned.
not a single article is missing from the
stock. The burglar was kind enough to
place the detached money drawer under
the counter in an orderly fashion, but he
neglected to put back the screw driver in
its place, that implement being found on
the floor Just back of the counter Meth
er was he careful about the ladder by
means of which he had climbed to the
top Nof the lunchroom. The ladder was
still in position as mute testimony when
the police were called.
Gerald Holmes of My Bakery" whose
store was broken into and robbed Thurs
day night, thinks his loss was between
$40 and $50. The cash register does not
register with entire accuracy and so he is
unable to state definitely what the
amount was He thinks il was an odd
coincidence that the burglar should have
come to his place on one of the very in
frequent occasions when he is away from
town and when the money is not re-
moved from the cash register,