Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-27

msnts are on the second f1oor. The
family was absent Monday afternoon
and whom MIR. Reynolds returned
home Monday evening he found the
front door had been jlmmied open.
The whole Interior was ransacked
The revolver was taken from a bureau
drawer and the clothing was stolen
from the closets. The thieves evident
ly had been In the apartment for
some time. but no one else In the
house seems to have heard them at
work.
Evidently Use Motor Cars.
During the afternoon some of the
occupants had seen a high powered
automobile, with strange license tag,
standing In front OF the house and
n young man at the wheel. 1t remain
ed in Delaware avenue for some time
and finally n second stranger came
along and jumped aboard and Im-
mediately the car moved or. The
opinion is expressed that the person
or persons who have been proving
upon the apartment houses about the
| city are using an automobile in their
operations. IT IL believed that the same
gang IS working in all the houses
4
| recently and that they are profess
sionai" apartment houe thieves. In al
most every instance the means of en-
trance has been practically the same.
that Of prying Off the front door lock
with Jimmy or some similar in
strument.
The robbery at the meat store of
| James O'Hara. goa North Madison
4 af,. Il.
one of the most daring the police
have had 20 investigate for some time.
A heavy wire screen over a rear win
dow opening into an alley was pried
loose and then turned up and a Sec
tion of the fly screen cut out. In this
| way the burglars gained entrance.
Once inside they went to the Office
and there broke open an iron box i'm
which Mr.. Oltara kept papers and
! cash.
The thieves secured about 800 In
| notes and some small change. but
| overlooked a bag which contained a
sum In silver coin. How they got the
iron box open is mystery TO Mr.
| lOHara. FOR there are no marks on II.
although the lock is broken. A family
| named Clifton live in the residence
portion of the building but they
heard no ununual noises about the
premises during the night. About 2
o'clock yesterday morning a stranger
was seen walking up Madison street
/ from Front. That IL was the work of
men and not boys was evident from
the bending of the wire screen which
would have required considerable
strength
Thieves Invade 0fiice buildings.
| The carnival OF robberies which has
been going on throughout the city has
/ been carried into the biggest office
buildings in Wilmington for two thefts
We're reported this morning. one in
the Delaware Trust Company's build
ing at Ninth and Market streets. and
the other in the Ford Building, at
Tenth and Market streets. Misc eliza
| beth w. Burn. secretary to Russell
III. Dnnham, president of the Hercules
| Powder Company, with Offices on the
thirteenth floor of the Delaware Trust
Company's building. was robbed of a
gold watch and her wallet containing
a small SUM OF money and Mrs Mary
/ Ianaers McCfory, stenographer in the
Office OF the III. V. Green Company.
!
! Building, was robbed OF a wallet con-
| tanning S25.
| Miss Burn had left the watch on her
desk in the office high above the city
streets and nearby was her wallet.
which contained about So in bills,
some small change and some keys.
She stepped out of the office yester-
day morning about las O'Clock, and
while she was not gone for more than
! five minutes the watch, wallet and
contents had disappeared when she re-
turned. She saw no strangers about
the corridor or offices and the rob-
! berry is a complete mystery. II was
i Immediately reported to the police
and also to the police force main
/ tanned in the building. and while a
| thorough investigation is being made.
not a clue has been obtained which
might lead to a solution of the rob-
/ berry.
| The theft of Mrs. McGrory's wallet
| Is surrounded by practically the same
/ circumstances. She had left her wall
let on her desk in the outer office of
ths II. V. Green Company's suite in
rooms No. 2e2 and stepped out of the
office for few minutes yesterday
teAL1t ioetl- W men Sf4e IttuIDtu lne
wallet, which contained s25 in bills,
had disappeared. She did not see any
one about the place whom she would
have suspected of the theft. The rob-
berry was reported to the police and
they are making an investigation of
this case, but so far without results
II is believed both these robberies
were perpetrated by the same person
or members of a gang who are operat-
ing in the office buildings, going about
entering offices and taking whatever
they find when they discover the doors
open. Most of the offices in the big
buildings are left open because of the
extremely warm weather and this
makes it easier for the thieves to ply
their trade without detection. That
anyone would go to the thirteenth
floor of the Delaware Trust Company's
building for the purpose of robbery
however, is believed TO be showing
more daring than they usually attri-
butte to the average criminal and on
this account they are working with
| the belief that il may have been COM
mitted by someone right in the build
| ing.
| Coleman Johnson, an automobile
dealer at Eleventh and King streets,
! yesterday afternoon. drove up in fron
of the Hotel du Pont in a new and ex-
pensive Cadillac automobile, parked
/ the machine and went into the build
/ ing. He was there probably ten min
/ ufee hut when he came ont his car