Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-12-12
OFFICERS SEEK
ITALIAN BONDS
Stolen from Shoe Shop Of Ame.
do DeAngeIs
Value 1880 Lire or Around $1,000
Several Local Italian Places of Bust
ness Searched.


ness Searched.
States Attorney E. w. Gibson's Office
is trying to unravel the mystery of the
theft of $4,000 lire in bonds of the Ital-
ian government from the safe in the shoe
repair shop of Amedio DeAngelis. Off
GERS have been searching several business
places conducted by Italians in Brat
tlcboro but yesterday State Attorney
Gibson said none of the missing bonds
had been recovered.
The bonds amount to about $4,000 in
American money Mt the present rate of
exchange, and they were stolen the night
of Monday, Nov. "a but no official
search was made for them at that time
because of the lack OF means for posi-
tive Identification.
Mr.. DeAngelis's shoe shop is located
in the basement under Donnell & Davis's
millinery store on Main street Mr.. De.
Angels owns the building, which he
bought in large part from his earnings in
the shop, where he conducts a prosperous
business. Out of his earnings he also
has bought Italian government bonds
from time to time. These he has kept
In an inner compartment of his safe, he
has kept the inner door locked, but 1t
has not been his custom to lock tho out.
side door of the safe.
On the night Of Nov. "a Mr.. DeAngels
and an empolye who works with him
nights left the shop about 8.l5 o'clock
and attended the moving pictures, re-
turning to the shop at II o'clock. The
front door was locked "a usual, but on
entering the shop the proprietor noticed
that the front door of the safe was wide
open. He then discovered that the inner
door had been broken open and the bonds
abstracted. Several dollars in United
States currency also were missing. but
the thief overlooked about $500 in bills.
An examination of the place showed
that a door opening into a rear alleyway
| was unlocked and that the door at the
other end of the alley, opening onto the
railroad bank also was unlocked. Both
these doors were locked when Mr. Dean.
CELLS and his employee left for the picture
house and the keys were Left in the
locks. None of the doors were broken o,
forced open.
Only one way is known by which q
burglar could have gotten into the store
without forcing an entrance. The upper
part of the front door contains window
one pane of which is hung on hinges and
is fastened by button, which is seldom
turned The door is fastened by a spring
! lock. If the button had been turned be.
fore the door was locked a person could
push open the pane OF glass, reach in and
turn the spring lock.
The states theory is that this was the
method by which the burglar gained ad.
mittance, but Mr.. DeAngelis did not no.
tice at the time whether the button
which fastens the window pane in place
was turned The state believes that
whoever stole the bonds was familiar
with all these facts and that he was an
italian. Acting on this presumption
States Attorney Gibson had the sheriff 5
department raid a number of local Ital.
ian business places and while they found
Italian bonds in substantial numbers
none of the bonds bore the serial mum
bers of those taken fror Mr.. DeAngelis's
safe.
The officers making the search were
Sheriff Frank L. Wellman, Deputy Sheriff
Fred Cressy. Policeman W. Z. Tyler,
Policeman George Bower, and B. A.
Whittemore of Guilford and f. II. Met
calf of Brattleboro, whom the sheriff
deputHed to assist him.