Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-14
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 Danielson, Oct. 13.-Burglars who came unannounced and departed with out flare of trumpetS stripped the Church Company's store in the Cyr build ing in the heart of the boroughs busi- ness section of s6,000 worth of high grade clothing for men, silk shirts and sweaters during the early hours of Fri day morning. The break was not dis covered until after daylight when John Weaver, coming from the Day street section of Brooklyn on his way to work, picked up a coat hanger in front of the Church store and looking about noted that the front door to the mems cloth ing department was swung wide open. He told James Walsh of his discovery and the latter telephoned the informa- tion to Chief John MacFarland of the police department and to Alfred L. Reed of the Church Company. This was about s a. m., when scores of borough resi- dents were coming down town on their way to work.
 The front door of the clothing depart 1 ment had been jirnmied. Inside the store everything was in perfect order. The burglars worked, it was evident, with the greatest coolness and knowledge of what they were after. Nothing was upset. But glass front cases that had con- tained the finest selections of clothing
 
 sirable things in mems suits, about 13O of which were taken, and 50 overcoats had been taken off the racks where they were hung and carried off. The burglars cleaned out other cases filled with fali l lines of silk shirts and high grade 1 sweaters-and got away without 8 soul | in the borough being aware of their pres ence. The loss is the heaviest sustained by Danielson firm in a burglary in a generation.
 l Without 8 doubt the work was done 1 by clever band of professionals. and there seems not the slightest doubt that their loot was carried off in touring cars. Boldness characterized the entire oper- ation. The men worked at the front of one of the principal stores in the borough and must have made considerable dis secured by a Yale lock. The door and 1 the door casing is shattered below and above the lock and shows how bar oI heavy chisel was repeatedly applied be- fore the lock was forced. There are tenants directly over the store and oth. CTS in an adjoining building, yet nont heard the raiders at work, either while they were getting in or during thu lengthy stay they must have spent il the store to select and carry off thu | amount of goods checked as missing. .l Street lights were burning the lengu of the business section and a night ligh was burning in the store, but notwith l standing these things the burglars mad
 their cleanup and got away to wha 2 must have been a start of hours befor
 the break was discovered.
 An official investigation of how sucl !, feat could have been accomplished un
 detected would be demanded it was stat
 ed Friday morning, when the boroug
 was agog with comment over the affair : It will be recalled that an attempt t \ rob the same store was made in Angus | of last year and that thousands of dol :. lars worth of high grade merchandis had been carefully bundled and was al ready to be carried away when Nigt Officer Martin Wolf discovered what wa [ going on and caused the burglars to fle a After that experience the Church con D pany further protected the rear entran, ses to It's store with heavy grating an Shutters, making access through dool 6r windows very difficult. That burglar
 would have the courage to raid the stol Il from the front did not seem possibilit e as the street is lighted all night ar y there Is more or less passing of people n all hours. Yet theN store was raidt n through front door sometime durir g the early hours of Friday and the heay tt haul made.
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