The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-06-07
D|SARM TWO MEN
AND BLOW SAFE
Second Visit to Refining Plant
Nets Yeggs $500
in Cash.

After surprising and disarmiug the
nlghtwatchmHn and "A companion who
was spending the night with him, safe
blowers played return engagement
Monday at > am. at the National Re-
filming COMPANY Virginia avenue and
Kentucky street. blowing the safe with
"A single charge Of nitroElyCetine ana
escaping with about $500 In cash be
fore the alarm could be spread and "A
riot squad Of police reach the scene,
For the secOn time in 60 days Night
Waterman W. T. Wright was the pris
oner OF three yeggs, evidently the sam
ones who invaded the plant on April a.,
and after binding and gagging the
Waterman used seven charges on the
safe without success William Larry
a friend % Wrights, who was spending
the night with him, was. the second
prisoner Of the yeggs Monday morning,
being captured first and held as hos
| tage while Wright was located in the
! darkcned building and disarmcd.
Larry was asleep In the main office
when the yeggs entered through an
open door and reused him. Covered by
| their pistols he was compelled to ten
them the whereabouts of Nightwateh T.
man Wright, who was somewhere IA
the building Carrying Larry Win
| them, they located Wright and advised
him If shot was fired Larry would
life of his friend, Wright permitted
himself to he captured and disarmed.
| The two men were then placed under
guard Of Ont Of the yogGs. The tele-
| phone wires We're slashcd before the
| safe was blown.
The remaining cracksmen met with
| little resistance in the second job on
| the comparV's safe. which is tenn
porary one being used while the big
safe was in the repair shop. Nitro
| 10 thr,.tsprh thR \
| which were stopped up with putty
| The yeggs made little effort to smother
4 the sound OF the explosion and attei
| the door had been hurled 30 feet acros'
the room, quickly ransacked the utter
| ior of the safe OF the money Night
Waterman Wright and Larry were
warned by the yegEs not to call for po-
| lice until o'clock
Disregard Warning.
The warning was dlsregarded, how
ever. aud Wright spread the alarm
quickly A police squad headed by
| Capt w y. Lee and Officers Crogan,
Hewett and Detective Sergts. f"cklc,
Griffin and Rutland. went to the seene,
| However, by that time the yeEgs had
completely disappeared and left no
trace, save for a few finger prints on
| the safe.
Wright told Capt Lee he was posi-
| tive the yeggs were the same three men
| April 4, after they had climbed through
| a forced window. On this occasion
Wright was bound and kept prisoner
| in "a lavatory FOR nearly two hours.
while they labored with the safe. An
| iron box on the interior of the safe re
sisted the seven charges Of nitroglycerin
and the thieves left without success
Paul Waggener, police Bertlllon Of
fetal, took photographs Of the. finger
| prints Monday. Police are e%erunE tv-
| cry effort to locate the three men,
whose daring in perpetrating the Jobs
without masks, and without fear OF
detection. has become the talk OF the
Despite energetic efforts. no trace has
been found of these yeggs, believed 70
be more than amateurs, probably semi
professionals. nor OF the amateurs who
| have perpetrated dozen or more JOBS
| here in the last six months, without De
! lection. obtaining something like "
600 total loot