The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-25
THIEVES RAID
WILLIAMSBURG
G. f. McAllister Co. Gener-
al Store and Market
Broken Into
STOLE CANADIAr
AND U. S sSoNEY
Overlooked In Cash
Registe, Sid $100 In
Liberty Bonds

Williamstown, June 25-Two bur
glaries last night netted the thieves
$25 in Canadian money, about $ll in
United States money and some goods,
including tobacco, cigarets and hats.
The breaks were in the general store
of the G. F. McAllister Co. and the
meat market conducted by the same
concern, the market being in the base
ment Of the building occupied by the
general store but separate from it.
Because of their haste or carelessness,
the thieves overlooked about $25 in
money and two so Liberty bonds of
the coupon variety. The money they
overlooked was in the cash register,
which was kept unlocked so that an
| intruder would not smash the machine
| in order to get at the contents. The
bonds were contained in folder in a
drawer of the safe.
The safe, like the cash register, was
not locked although the door was shut
and the handle turned. A quantity of
burned matches on the floor before the
safe door indicates that the burglars
looked things over to determine what
they wished to carry. The Canadian
money which was taken by the bur
glars was in the safe, having been tax
EN- in at different times in the course
OF trade and stored away for future
use. This money was in bills and silver
pieces. The safe and cash register were
not more than fouTfeet apart, but, APP
parently the latter was not meddied
with at all
The American money stolen was TAX
en- from the market in the basement of
the store. The members of the firm ara
not able to state definitely just how
much stuff was taken out of the stock
OF goods; but the appearances in the
drygoods department indicates that
part of the stock was inspected. The
tobacco and cigaret counter was also
relieved of some of its stock
Entrance to both the store and the
market was made by way of rear win
dows, cloth screens being ripped aside
and the windows raised. The window
in the store is heavy, and an instru-
ment had to be used in lifting it up,
the marks of the instrument being Wis.
ible to-day.
Whether the jobs were done by
"home talent" or by members OF the
several gangs of thieves working in
Vermont at the present time is not GER
tain. No suspicious looking strangers
have been seen who might be consid
cred as suspects, and if the breaks
were made by outsiders it is probable
that the burglars came and went by
automobile. Machines are passing
through the village at all times of the
night, so that people would not have
been aroused by visitation by auto
mobile bandits
So far as reported, only one person
was. aroused by unusual sounds during
the night. That person is Mrs. H p.
Crosby, who occupies a tenement in
the second story of the McAllister
block. Mrs. Crosby is not able to de-
scribe what sort of sounds awoke her,
nor did she look at the clock TO see
what time il was.
The store was last visited by mem
Der of the firm at o'clock last eve
ming, and everything was all right then
Ii was at o'clock this morning that
the burglaries were discovered. Leon
McAllister. member of the firm, is
a deputy sheriff and he and Others are
Investigating.