The Washington times., 1922-04-07
YEGGS GET.
$4,000 IN.
R|VERDALE.
Cracksmen Loot Two Safes of
Realty Company and Then
Rob Postoffice.

Rob Postoffice.
Professional yeggmen early this
morning broke into the Office of
the Riverdale Park Company,
real estate development firm, at
Riverdale, Prince Georges county,
Md, blowing the safe with nitro
glycerir- and stealing $500 in
cash q a checks and approx
mately 500, 900 in securities. The
latter, it is said, are not nego-
table.
POstoffice Also Robbed.
After robbing the real estate com.
pany safe, the yeggs broke into the
Riverdale postoffice. Of which Mrs.
Ossie Agnes Klinger is postmis-
tress, stealing some pennies and
two packages Of parcel post.
In an effort to get some trace of
the identity Of the yeggs. Constable
Thomas II. Garrison and Detective
Sergeants Thomas Walsh and Fred
Sandberg this morning went to the
scene Of the robbery to get finger
prints from two hatchets and a
hammer which the yeggs left be-
hind.
Discovery of the robbery was
made at 1880 o'clock this morning
by l.. l.. Gray. secretary and treas
urer of the company. When Gray
reached the office he found the Of
flee door unlocked. Upon entering
the office he found the safe had
been blown. The two doors Of the
safe were blown from their hinges,
and most of the contents were scat.
tered about the floor.
Another Safe Opened.
Another safe in the office had
been opened. but the contents had
not been disturbed. 1t contained
property deeds and insurance poll
cies which the thieves did not want.
As soon as Gray made an inspec-
ton of the ruins, he telephoned
e. w. Reibetanz, president of the
company, who lives about a half
mile from the office. The two esti-
mated their losses at $500, declar-
were Of no value to the yeggmen.
1t is believed the job was en-
gineered by professional yeggmen,
one Of whom, II Is believed, visited
the office yesterday morning on the
pretext that he wanted to locate in
Riverdale. The man, while engaged
in conversation with Gray, seemed
to study the location of the desks,
safes and other things in the office.
To smother the report of the cX-
plosion of the nitro-glycerine, the
yeggs threw a rug over the safe. The
rug was torn almost to threads by
the force Of the blast.
That the thieves were daring is
shown by the fact that they went
to the postoffice after blowing the
safe in the real estate office. How
ever, they did not attempt to blow
open the postoffice safe, contenting
themselves with stealing some coins
from a cash drawer and taking some
parcel post packages.
Few Hear Explosion.
Word of the operations of the
yeggs spread through Riverdale and
gathered at the offices to see the re-
Few persons heard the explosion,
one of them being ID. T. Davies, who
lives a half block from the real es-
tate office. He said about 2:30
o'clock he heard a muffled blast,
but thought II to be an automobile
tire. He did not speak of II until
he learned that the real estate Of
flee had been entered.
Ossie Klinger, husband OF the
postmistress at Riverdale, whose of.
flee also was robbed, is a former
Washington policeman. He was
asleep when the yeggman entered
the postoffice.
Only a few weeks ago yeggmen
blew the safe of the Sanitary
Grocery Company at Berwyn, a few
miles from RAyerdale, stealing nearly
81 900. II In believed that the same
thieves broke into the Riverdals of.
fioes last nlghA